Best Ex Yugoslavian Films
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- DirectorHajrudin KrvavacStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicRade MarkovicLjubisa SamardzicA man who tried to stop Nazi soldiers in World War II.
- DirectorZvonimir BerkovicStarsStevo ZigonMilena DravicRelja BasicEvery 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 the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsBekim FehmiuOlivera KatarinaVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicTensions arise in a Gypsy community when a local feather seller falls in love with a much younger girl.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsJovan Janicijevic-BurdusAnka ZupancDusan JanicijevicIn a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change attitude towards them, disarming and shutting them off, but the pilots were able to escape. Palming off the corpses of two other killed prisoners to the Germans, who have since captured the real pilots, the Chetniks make local people enraged, despite their captain's attempts to cover up this wrongdoing, done on a public holiday.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsDragan NikolicRuzica SokicNeda SpasojevicThe 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.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsMilena DravicIvica VidovicSeverin BijelicIdealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
- DirectorKresimir GolikStarsFranjo MajeticMirjana BohanecRelja BasicThe story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, but wants to marry off the aunt. After a couple of invitations to their Zagreb home, the father becomes aware of Fulir's passes at his wife...
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsFabijan SovagovicAdem CejvanJagoda KaloperSmall village in mountains of Dalmatinska Zagora is under total control of Andrija, local Party official. One day two members of secret police come to the village and everybody knows they are going to arrest somebody, but nobody knows whom.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsRade SerbedzijaMajda PotokarMajda GrbacAn ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.
- DirectorJovan JovanovicStarsDragan NikolicAleksandar GavricMaría BaxaFollows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", petty criminal born in Belgrade, always problematic, enemy of country's regime, influenced by society and movies(for example Godard's, even the movie looks like "Breathless" a little bit and Godard is mentioned once in the movie) and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of local police.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsLjerka DrazenovicSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicDusan JanicijevicSet just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience the true Empire's decline through the meeting with disillusioned army.
- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsAleksander KroslBoris DvornikSilvana ArmenulicI. S. returns after many years to his hometown, from which he escaped after WW II, fearing that, as a civil clerk of the NDH, could suffer prosecution from the new government. He has been falsely accused to be a member of Ustasha movement.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsMirjana NikolicPetar BozovicSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicA 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.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsSlavko StimacMiodrag RadovanovicPavle VuisicSet in a small village during WWII, a group of boys have to rely on their cunning to fool a dangerous Nazi policeman who's come to their village to find out who burned down the German corn supply.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsFrano LasicMilan StrljicTanja PoberznikThree young men - a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew - are the best of friends in pre-World War II Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Germans and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of terror and gruesome massacres. The friends must now take different sides in a global conflict.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicIt's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorSrdjan KaranovicStarsMirjana KaranovicDragan MaksimovicPavle VuisicThis 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 she loves. Torn between dreams and reality, she endures a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope, and love.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsSlavko StimacSlobodan AligrudicLjiljana BlagojevicA young man's personality is shaped, involving some weird happenings around.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicVladislava MilosavljevicMladen BudiscakTomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.
- DirectorZoran TadicStarsIvica VidovicFabijan SovagovicBozidarka FrajtAfter moving to a new neighborhood, a mysterious man starts introducing his landlord to the hobby of collecting crime statistics.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsRade SerbedzijaErland JosephsonDusica ZegaracThis is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.
- DirectorMilivoje 'Mica' MilosevicStarsNikola SimicMilan 'Lane' GutovicRahela FerariIn 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 to spend his life studying without working; and his other son wants his own wheels. It is enough to send a father to the lottery, or to the soccer pool.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsLjubisa SamardzicJirí PrýmekSavina GersakTraveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.
- DirectorMiroslav MikuljanStarsFabijan SovagovicMilan StrljicEna BegovicDeals with the father-son conflict in a farming family. The two never see eye to eye especially over the way the farm is run. The boy opts for a different way of life and also falls in love with a dumb girl to the horror of his family.
- DirectorBranko BaleticStarsDragan NikolicBora TodorovicTanja BoskovicA group of petty criminals is trying to make some money under the disguise of a musical band in German-occupied Serbia.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsAleksandar BercekMarko NikolicPavle VuisicThe story about the death of Karadjordje, the elected leader of the First Serbian Uprising that aimed at liberating Serbia from the Ottoman Empire.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsSlavko StimacDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicMira BanjacFor the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsSavina GersakDragan NikolicBoro BegovicA well-meaning man tries to convince the inhabitants of a small village who are busy gossiping about the new girl in the village to support his plan to build a tunnel that would connect their village to the sea. Things go horribly wrong.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
- DirectorDragoslav LazicStarsRados BajicJovan Janicijevic-BurdusVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicA village blacksmith Sekula, hard-muscled but soft-hearted, has everything but the luck when it comes to love. Many women pass through his house, but keep just enough to give birth to another child, and then run away from the life that briefly stranded. A local spinster of ill health, a belly dancer, a veterinarian experienced in castration of bulls, and finally, a singing star-to-be. Sekula is truly in loved with this singer with large eyes and a slim waist, but she only dreams of money in her buxom, a record contract and the newspaper headlines.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsMira FurlanMilutin 'Mima' KaradzicPetar BozovicA 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.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsDavor DujmovicBora TodorovicLjubica AdzovicIn 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 loves.
- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsRade SerbedzijaFabijan SovagovicStevo ZigonStressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
- DirectorAleksandar DjordjevicStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicPrle 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 Prle and Tihi must return to Belgrade deal with it. In order to cross through enemy lines, they use cars, clothes and documents of captured pro-Nazi minister. During their journey the minister escapes and warns the Gestapo.
- DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsMilena ZupancicMiranda CaharijaMarjeta GregoracThe erotic relationship between Zhashler's wife Karolina and unknown young man is not welcomed by the residents of a small village, which makes the situation unbearable. When Zhashler kills himself, desperate Karolina starts changing men in order to find a compatriot who would give her warmth and lustful love.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicJanez VrhovecSeverin BijelicA story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsSlavko StimacSvetislav 'Bule' GoncicSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicThe story takes place during WW II in Vojvodina. Two boys, Milan and Rasa, are sent from a partisan squad to a village for the winter. Soon Rasa becomes very ill and Milan goes to a nearby village populated by Germans. Here he finds a job as servant in Jakob Jerih's house. At night, Milan secretly nurses his friend Rasa in a hut in a swamp near the village. Soon, he finds another hiding place in master Jerih's stable. Jerih likes the diligent Milan and he even considers adopting the boy, but Jerih's cousin and assistant is against this idea. Namely because he counts on inheriting master Jerih's estate.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsEva RasSlobodan AligrudicRuzica SokicA 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.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsLjuba TadicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicDusica ZegaracDr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace. The events that followed reveal that the doctor used his own way of treatment in order to express his own essentially despotic and hypocritical personality.
- DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsBoris BuzancicDjurdja IvezicAntun VrdoljakA bus and a truck are destined to collide with each other on a highway. Their passengers go on about their lives without knowing what will happen.
- DirectorMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsBekim FehmiuMilena DravicSlobodan DjuricPavle Pavlovic, a steel worker, openly talks about the issues in the steel factory in a television show. He receives an apartment from the board, takes his statement back, but looses the trust of his colleagues. He starts all over again: in another company he gains new friends, however while facing the criminals who illegally transport workers abroad, he loses his life.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsTasko NacicNikola SimicSrdjan SaperA 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 killer.
- DirectorBogdan ZizicStarsIvo GregurevicFabijan SovagovicMira BanjacEncouraged by the stories of guest workers who pay visit to their homeland, a young man Filip finds himself on a central station in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. While looking for his old friend Mate who would help him to get around in new environment, Filip experiences one trouble after another until he finally finds Mate lethally wounded.
- DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsMilena ZupancicPolde BibicBert SotlarDoctor Janez, a somewhat elderly lawyer, tired of urban life, pays a few week's visit to his relative Presecnik, a well-off farmer living in highland village. Farm life holds a great attraction for him, particularly because a deep and secret love develops between himself and Presecnik's daughter Meta. After a few serene and cheerful days spent on the farm, filled with pleasant labor and walks together with Meta in the unspoilt surroundings, he has to return to Ljubljana to resume his office work. But he cannot forget Meta and he makes his mind to buy a property not far from the Presecnik home and and to become a farmer. He does indeed buy a farm and sets out again to the Presecnik home to ask Meta to be his wife.