Movie | Comedy, Crime | Yugoslavia, Italy | Romany, Serbo-Croatian
Director
Emir Kusturica
Writer
Emir Kusturica, Gordan Mihic
Cast
Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic
Plot
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he l...
The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
Movie | Drama, History | Yugoslavia | Bosnian, Serbian
Director
Srdjan Dragojevic
Writer
Vanja Bulic, Srdjan Dragojevic, Biljana Maksic
Cast
Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic
Plot
During the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature.
Two brothers, Lemi and Kiza, having spent all their money, try to relocate their dead grandfather from Belgrade to Vrsac at the lowest cost, but he goes missing along the way.
Ljubisa Samardzic, Miodrag Petrovic-Ckalja, Bora Todorovic
Plot
Surda, a man in his 30s who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, no job is good for him, so he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same thing, so he heads back to his native Yugoslavia.
A life in a small coastal town in Dalmatia, Croatia, seen through the prism of the local chronicler-amateur and his writings, during the periods before and after WW2.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian
Director
Goran Markovic
Writer
Goran Markovic
Cast
Dragan Nikolic, Bogdan Diklic, Gorica Popovic
Plot
"Floyd," a rally driver in Belgrade, forgoes his relationship and military duties to solely train for a career-defining Saturday race with the potential to advance his aspirations.
Vesna Trivalic, Bojana Maljevic, Milan 'Lane' Gutovic
Plot
Katarina Andjelic, nicknamed "Cakana", lives with her two children, her brother Bata, and his daughter. She is an sculpture and painting artist, but there are not many people who can see her potential. Her ex-husband, Dragoslav, i...
The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that sa...
Movie | Comedy, Crime | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian, Serbian
Director
Slobodan Sijan
Writer
Slobodan Sijan, Nebojsa Pajkic
Cast
Tasko Nacic, Nikola Simic, Srdjan Saper
Plot
A mentally-disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a ...
Boris Milivojevic, Sergej Trifunovic, Maja Mandzuka
Plot
Just an ordinary urban Belgrade night - two friends are trying to get their money back from their school friend, whom they bullied when they were kids. Gojko Sisa does not forget the old enemies so easy.
In this light, fluffy comedy, a low-level clerk cannot make ends meet because his brood is in no way economically cooperative: his daughter is a lawyer looking for work, unsuccessfully; his son is a would-be astronomer who wants t...
Movie | Action, Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian
Director
Zivorad 'Zika' Mitrovic
Writer
Arsen Diklic, Zivorad 'Zika' Mitrovic
Cast
Aleksandar Gavric, Ljuba Tadic, Nikola Jovanovic
Plot
One Serbian army battery in the First World War, in forced march with no stopping and rest, arrives to Cer Mountain, and, in decisive moment, enters the fight and throws off Austrian troops which penetrated into the country. This ...
Prle, Tihi, and other youths from the resistance movement in German-occupied Belgrade are high on the Gestapo's termination list. Some of them get written off, but new ones arrive and continue to fight.
Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.
In Summer of 1944 Prle and Tihi, young yet veteran resistance fighters, together with Joca, old and moody radio-operator, are sent by Partisans to Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital still under Nazi occupation. As victorious Partisan ...
Zarko Lausevic, Bojana Maljevic, Aleksandar Bercek
Plot
In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanovic discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called....
Story about Matan, professional beggar, smuggler, and trickster, his childhood and adult adventures with his family. It is shown as retrospective, while Matan is hiding from the authorities in the mental institution.
Branko Cvejic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Olivera Markovic
Plot
Bane Bumbar is growing up in Stara Karaburma neighbourhood with his parents Sreta and Olja, his half-sister Seka Stajn (his mother's child form a previous marriage) and his maternal grandmother Elvira. His circle of friends includ...
Movie | Drama, Music | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian
Director
Zivojin Pavlovic
Writer
Ljubisa Kozomara, Gordan Mihic
Cast
Dragan Nikolic, Ruzica Sokic, Neda Spasojevic
Plot
The story about Jimmy the Dingy, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
Movie | Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian, English
Director
Zivko Nikolic
Writer
Dragan Nikolic, Zivko Nikolic
Cast
Mira Furlan, Milutin 'Mima' Karadzic, Petar Bozovic
Plot
A conservative couple decides to leave their rural community and the wife reluctantly takes a job at a naturist resort. Soon their conservative lifestyle starts colliding with the unconventional one.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian, German
Director
Dusan Makavejev
Writer
Dusan Makavejev, Branko Vucicevic
Cast
Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ruzica Sokic
Plot
A young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Yugoslavia, Germany | Serbo-Croatian, English
Director
Dusan Makavejev
Writer
Dusan Makavejev
Cast
Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper
Plot
An homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored.
Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Dusan Jakovljevic, Marko Todorovic
Plot
Misa is already a teenager but with little interest in girls and much for his violin. Two granddads, Zika and Milan, are worried for their grandson who may 'deviate' like Steven from "Dynasty", the show they like to watch. That's ...
The story of this cult Croatian TV-series is set in a remote Podravina village and revolves around a peasant Dudek and his wife Regica, whose troubles ensue from his honest and naive nature, since his fellow villagers take advanta...
In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Movie | Action, War | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian, German
Director
Hajrudin Krvavac
Writer
Predrag Golubovic, Djordje Lebovic
Cast
Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Boris Dvornik
Plot
Elite saboteurs undertake perilous mission to destroy key bridge, hampering German offensive. Bridge's designer, reluctant accomplice, holds knowledge of its few vulnerabilities amid impregnable fortifications.
Movie | Adventure, Family | Yugoslavia | Slovenian
Director
Joze Gale
Writer
Joze Gale, Frane Milcinski, Josip Vandot
Cast
Matija Barl, Frane Milcinski, Franc Presetnik
Plot
In an alpine valley lies an idyllic village. High up in the mountains, facing each others across live two men: a "good grandpa" and an "evil man". The first is herbe picker Kosobirin, the other Bedanec is a poacher. The latter has...
Dealing open-heartedly with his customers, car mechanic Zivota goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and others human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterne...
Movie | Drama, War | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian, German
Director
Aleksandar Petrovic
Writer
Antonije Isakovic, Aleksandar Petrovic
Cast
Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ali Raner, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic
Plot
Three stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian
Director
Dusan Makavejev
Writer
Dusan Makavejev, Rasa Popov
Cast
Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras
Plot
A love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver g...
1993 Serbia is a place torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his painter friend and makes money by selling his paintings to the "new elite". He meets a nice girl who works a ph...
In a fictional tavern located in a tiny UN demilitarized zone, during the Bosnian war, spies from all three warring sides are waiting for a foreign spy with a secret weapon that will bring victory to the side that obtains it.
Nikola Simic, Milan 'Lane' Gutovic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic
Plot
After car crash with some Turk, Pantic gets the idea to build a motel for all Turks who traveling through Yugoslavia. Sojic wants to thwart the plan, and tells the Turk in confidence that Pantic is gay. However, the Turk is also gay.
TV | Comedy, Drama | Yugoslavia, Croatia | English, German
Cast
Boris Dvornik, Zdravka Krstulovic, Mustafa Nadarevic
Plot
This series, mostly humorous, yet epic in proportions, chronicles the city of Split in turbulent times between 1910 and 1947. Although the story has numerous subplots and dozens of different characters, the main accent is given to...
Movie | Animation, Adventure | Yugoslavia, USA | Croatian
Director
Milan Blazekovic
Writer
Fred P. Sharkey, Suncana Skrinjaric
Cast
Josip Marotti, Vili Matula, Ljubo Kapor
Plot
A painter who can temporarily talk to the creatures of an enchanted forest must help them stop the evil Cactus King, who's building an army of magical living weapons and machines to turn the forest into a wasteland perfect for the...
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian
Director
Soja Jovanovic
Writer
Branko Copic, Soja Jovanovic, Nenad Jovicic
Cast
Pavle Jovanovic, Pavle Polacek, Ljubomir Popovic
Plot
A group of kids from the Bosnian village often run away from school from the terror of Pepper, a teacher who got his nickname because of his red nose. Soon they formed a brigand division, but have been discovered and caught. The s...
Dimitrije Pantic loses his suitcase with business projects in an overcrowded bus, only to find a similar one - yet full of foreign currencies. This money turns his life upside down, but it also influences other people's ambitions.
Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's termination list. This movie inspired the series ...
Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Marko Todorovic, Jelena Zigon
Plot
Unlike in the previous sequel of "Foolish Years"/"Zika's Dynasty" film series, Zika's and Milan's grandson became crazy for girls, having sex with them simultaneously in his apartment. Granddads are now worried for different reaso...
Three students try to pass their final exam by reluctant task of wooing their professor's daughter, but the unlucky winner, decided by a coin toss, will completely forget about studying once he meet her.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbian, Czech
Director
Zdravko Sotra
Writer
Zdravko Sotra, Stevan Sremac
Cast
Vojin Cetkovic, Katarina Radivojevic, Dragan Nikolic
Plot
The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova (Katarina Radivojevic), a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane (Vojin Cetkovic), an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a ri...
Movie | Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian, German
Director
Zdravko Sotra
Writer
Jovan Radulovic, Zdravko Sotra
Cast
Zarko Lausevic, Slavko Stimac, Mira Furlan
Plot
This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, "Braca po materi" prophetically forsees the ...
Movie | Drama, Horror | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian
Director
Djordje Kadijevic
Writer
Milovan Glisic, Djordje Kadijevic
Cast
Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic
Plot
A young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.
Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia's wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is th...
Movie | Documentary, Comedy | Yugoslavia | Serbian, German
Director
Dusan Makavejev
Writer
Dusan Makavejev, Branko Vucicevic
Cast
Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic, Vera Jovanovic
Plot
Documentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that.
Igor Gordic was an Olympic Champion in shooting, but now he is a junkie without money and in debts to mafia. Sasa is his younger brother and he is getting ready for the next World Championship. Pressured by hard life in Serbia in ...
In the sequel to "Truckers," truck driver Jare builds a new house for his large family. Since he's the only one who works for all of them, he sets himself an impossible mission to pay off all of his loans with help from his best f...
The adventures of a truck driver and his fellow associate, who both leave their company refusing to meet the newly introduced criteria of having elementary school degree. Being in their 40s and totally talentless for education, th...
Prle and Tihi, being the only surviving members of their resistance group, had been forced to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join Partisans in country. In Summer of 1944 somebody is assassinating resistance sympathizers, and Prl...
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Yugoslavia | Croatian, Serbo-Croatian
Director
Mate Relja
Writer
Mato Lovrak, Mate Relja
Cast
Slavko Stimac, Gordana Inkret, Zeljko Malcic
Plot
One class of school children from a small village make the trip to Zagreb. Teacher gets sick and the class is forced to go home without him. During their journey the train gets stuck in a snowstorm.
The comic adventures of a Montenegrin family that live in an isolated village high in the mountains, eternally waiting for their son to come back from his studies in Munich.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian
Director
Zoran Calic
Writer
Zoran Calic
Cast
Rialda Kadric, Vladimir Petrovic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra
Plot
Two teenagers - boy from the rural and girl from the urban family - fall in love. Problems arise when the girl gets pregnant. This movie was the first in one of the most popular series in the former Yugoslavia.
TV | Biography, Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbian, German
Cast
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Aleksandar Bercek, Dragana Varagic
Plot
Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic's efforts to standardize Serbian language and grammar in the 19th century, chronicling its adoption across Yugoslavia amid major Serbian historical events of that era.
Men, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogden, a young ...
Movie | Drama, Horror | Yugoslavia, UK | Serbo-Croatian, Esperanto
Director
Goran Markovic
Writer
Goran Markovic
Cast
Mustafa Nadarevic, Anica Dobra, Milorad Mandic-Manda
Plot
Piano teacher is deeply traumatised by the events of his childhood, as well as by political oppression in his youth. Decades later, all those traumas lead to carnage.
A local policeman organizes a reception with his strictly controlled citizens for the president of the state. Under the influence of events in 1962 Cuba, two parties began to form, resolved to succeed where Khrushchev and JFK have...
This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar periods. "Petria's wreath" is a story about the tragic life of an illiterate village woman and her life with three men...
Movie | Adventure, Family | Yugoslavia, UK | Slovenian
Director
Joze Gale
Writer
Ivan Ribic, Josip Vandot
Cast
Rusa Bojc, Blanka Florjanc, Velimir Gjurin
Plot
Two boys, Kekec and Rozle, come to serve a farmer, with a blind daughter Mojca, as shepherds. As the night falls, the two boys start talking about a woman who lives in the mountains and is supposed to steal children. Her name is P...
On his way to visit his father, a young Nemanja was caught in a heavy rain, so he decides to seek lodging for the night in nearby motel. The place happens to be notorious as a meeting place of bad, dangerous and weird people.
Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Rialda Kadric, Vladimir Petrovic
Plot
Zika and Milan are fighting over who gets to spend more time with grandson Misha, who is five years old. Although Misha lives with his parents in Milan grandfather, Zika all ways of trying to learn Misa tavern life and his craft. ...
Movie | Adventure, Drama | Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croatian
Director
Obrad Gluscevic
Writer
Stjepan Perovic, Obrad Gluscevic
Cast
Slavko Stimac, Zeljko Mataija, Ivan Stimac
Plot
A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal, but the boy is worried about it and he ...
