Best Yugoslavian/Serbian movies
My personal list of 10 best titles of yugoslavian/serbian cinematography
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- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsSonja DamjanovicNikola DjurickoBranko VidakovicSeveral people get locked in a turkish bath at night, being hunted by a brutal serial killer, who seems to be seized with the T.T. Syndrome, a brain malady that leads to painful sociopathy.
- DirectorDusan KovacevicStarsBora TodorovicBranislav LecicNatasa NinkovicAfter the collapse of the Yugoslavian government, a former secret agent, now a taxi driver, enters the office of a former university professor, now a firm director.
- DirectorIvan ZivkovicStarsGoran SusljikNebojsa GlogovacVojin CetkovicUnsuccessful radio host Rasa has a small party in his alcoholic father's run-down apartment, and one of his guests is his neighbor Ivan who takes antipsychotics.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDragan BjelogrlicNikola KojoDragan MaksimovicDuring 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.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
- DirectorMiroslav LekicStarsZarko LausevicBojana MaljevicAleksandar BercekIn 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.Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he finds the road to his faith...
- DirectorDragan BjelogrlicStarsMilos BikovicPetar StrugarNina JankovicA story about Serbian football team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
- StarsNikola RakocevicVuk KosticNebojsa GlogovacWhen Gavrilo Princip killed Franz Ferdinand , Austrian future king , the World War I began. What will Gavrilo Princip do? He has to choose , hard jail untill death , or hanging. There are so much things happening in Bosnia.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilena PavlovicBranka KaticAngel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
- DirectorMilorad MilinkovicStarsNikola DjurickoSonja KolacaricTara ManicTwo 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.
- DirectorDusan KovacevicBozidar 'Bota' NikolicStarsDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicBora TodorovicMira BanjacConvinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, a man falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsBogdan DiklicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicPavle VuisicThe 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.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicLazar RistovskiMirjana JokovicTwo underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsSlavko StimacNatasa TapuskovicVesna TrivalicWhat could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsBoris BuzancicBozidarka FrajtMarko TodorovicUzice Republic, also known as the "first offensive" is a story about Serbia in 1941 and monitors the emergence and decline of the Uzice Republic. A few months after the German Wehrmacht forced the Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate in April War, Boro, a Spanish soldier and hardened Communist, is tasked to organize an uprising in western Serbia. Organized resistance is turning into a massive uprising against the occupying forces. Partisans, led by the Communist party, manage to chase the Germans from a huge territory, later known as the Uzice Republic. People gather around the partisans and were soon freed from Bajina Basta, Pozega, Uzice, and Cacak. Supreme headquarters of the partisan army comes to the liberated territory. However, forces loyal to the king have some other ideas. Uzice Republic lasted only 67 days, from 24 September to 29 November 1941, when a bloody and tragic battle on Kadinjaca occurred and the entire labor battalion, fell into the hands of the Wehrmacht and the Chetniks, so the partisans, supreme headquarters, and the people had to retreat to the Sandzak.
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsAleksandar GavricPetar PrlickoDimitar KostarovKosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Lesi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a ruthless, German-trained soldier Kosta and by Ahmet, the brother of the famous Captain.As Ramiz is trying to get Ahmet out of the gang and hunt down the rest of the Balists, 2 new girls arrive in town. One of them is Lola, a bar singer with a questionable agenda, and the other is Vida, a withdrawn music teacher from Belgrade.
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsAleksandar GavricLjuba TadicNikola JovanovicOne 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 is not only the chronicle of the Battle of Cer, but Serbian drama and drama of one nation who made impossible possible during the fight against the empire which wanted to take away their country. This drama is based on credible events and authentic documents.
- DirectorZdravko SotraStarsMilos ZuticGorica PopovicVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicOn June 28th 1389, at Kosovo Polje, an army of the Serbian Prince Lazar made a stand against the advancing Ottoman forces of Sultan Murad.
- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsLucyna WinnickaBert SotlarPredrag FinciA resistance fighter in WWII Sarajevo is running from the Gestapo and finds shelter in the home of an old man who is a former member of the Mlada Bosna organization and tells the young man about his youth and events that which led to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
- DirectorMilos RadovicStarsLazar RistovskiBranka KaticSimon LyndonA half-mad patriot who shot Avax from the roof of his house captures its American pilot during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. The hostage gets romantically involved with his sister while unsuccessfully trying to escape.
- DirectorDusan MilicStarsBranka KaticSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicDubravka MijatovicAn ex-soldier storms into a supermarket and takes all the cashiers hostage because one of them insulted his grandmother.
- DirectorBranimir Tori JankovicStarsMira StupicaVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicRade SerbedzijaWhen a warrior dies, a star is born, a company of us die when born to a group of stars. Small children are fascinated by ancient legends and stories of old people, people replace their signature ready to be shot and put yourself in front of the German pipe.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMidhat MutapdzicMilenko StrbacStarsLjuba TadicPavle VuisicLjubisa SamardzicAt the beginning of the Second World War, a well respected doctor must lead the partisan resistance to save his people from genocide.
- DirectorAleksandar PetkovicStarsSvetozar CvetkovicBranislav LecicDanica MaksimovicAfter WWI, two friends, awarded officers return to their lives in peacetime. One of them becomes a commander of the gendarme's, while the other gets into conflict with the authorities and gets imprisoned, but escapes soon. A former hero becomes an outlaw hunted by the police.
- 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.
- DirectorVatroslav MimicaStarsFranco NeroDragan NikolicSanja VejnovicIn late 14th century medieval Serbia becomes the target of Ottoman invaders. One of their renegade gangs burns the castle and takes young wife of Banovic Strahinja, respected Serbian noble. Banovic Strahinja begins long and almost futile quest for his wife despite everybody else's doubts in her fidelity.
- DirectorBozidar 'Bota' NikolicStarsBranislav LecicBogdan DiklicLjubisa SamardzicThree boys who are fascinated with seventh art magic decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. At the same time, a local policeman frantically organizes a reception for the president of the state. His "strictly controlled" citizens, under the influence of events in Cuba, in 1962, start dividing in two parties, resolved to succeed where Khrushchev and JFK have failed.
- DirectorZdravko SotraStarsTihomir ArsicZeljka CvjetanBranislav LecicIgman March is known as the 'second offensive'. After the fall of the Uzice Republic, for strengthening the grouping of enemies in December 1941, in the small town of Rudo in Bosnia, formed the First Proletarian Brigade, the first regular units of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. One of her first major trials is Igman march known as the 'Second offensive'. In late January 1942 immediately after the formation of the brigade to mountain Romanija found itself in an environment of strong German forces and that would put us in the best great number enemy forces, supreme headquarters in consultation with the staff of the brigade decided that the majority of the Yugoslav partisans must not exceed the Igman mountain near the city of Sarajevo. The task is anything but easy because of the extreme cold and strong wind. The plan was to pass near Sarajevo itself, over Mount Igman, according to the liberated city of Foca, where he broke the supreme headquarters with Tito. The march was conducted on the night of January 27, 1942 at a temperature of minus 40 degrees. The march was after 19 hours of continuous walking and after the horrible and tragic loss yet completed.
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsLjubisa SamardzicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicDragomir Bojanic-GidraIn 1883 Milan Obrenovic, arrogant and despotic king of Serbia, felt threatened by the militia segments of his army. In order to remove that threat he disbanded militia. However, people of Timok Valley decide not to surrender their arms to the regular troops. The movie was made for the 100th anniversary of the event.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsNebojsa GlogovacNatasa NinkovicAnica DobraA couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.