Country: Yugoslavia

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Miki Manojlovic · Lazar Ristovski · Mirjana Jokovic · Slavko Stimac

Synopsis 'Underground' takes a look at the modern history of Yugoslavia through the often absurd misadventures of two friends over several decades. The film begins in Belgrade in 1941, establishing the friendship between the gregarious Blacky and the more intellectual Marko...

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Davor Dujmovic · Bora Todorovic · Ljubica Adzovic · Husnija Hasmovic

Synopsis A young gypsy boy, raised by his honest and moral grandmother, is soon taught the art of thievery, begging and baby-selling by the richest gypsy in the community. But when tragedy strikes his family, he loses everything important to him.

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Bajram Severdzan · Branka Katic · Florijan Ajdini · Jasar Destani

Synopsis Black Cat, White Cat (1998) is a vibrant and chaotic tale set in the Balkans, directed by Emir Kusturica. The story follows Matko, a small-time hustler, who becomes entangled in a series of misadventures after a failed business deal with...

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Moreno de Bartolli · Miki Manojlovic · Mirjana Karanovic · Pavle Vujisic

Synopsis Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His...

Direction Srdjan Karanovic

Cast Mirjana Karanovic · Dragan Maksimovic · Pavle Vujisic · Marko Nikolic

Synopsis This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. "Petria's wreath" is a story about the tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life...

Direction Slobodan Sijan

Cast Pavle Vujisic · Dragan Nikolic · Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic · Aleksandar Bercek

Synopsis On April 5, 1941, a date Serbs will recognize, men on a country road board Krstic's bus for Belgrade: two Gypsies who occasionally sing about misery, an aging war vet, a Nazi sympathizer, a dapper singer, a consumptive, and a...

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Miki Manojlovic · Mirjana Jokovic · Slavko Stimac · Bora Todorovic

Direction Srdjan Dragojevic

Cast Dragan Bjelogrlic · Nikola Kojo · Dragan Maksimovic · Zoran Cvijanovic

Synopsis The film starts in the Belgrade army hospital where casualties of Bosnian civil war are treated. In the hospital they remember their youth and the war. The main focus is on two young boys, Halil (Nikola Pejakovic), a Muslim, and...

Direction Nikola Tanhofer

Cast Djurdja Ivezic · Boris Buzanicic · Antun Vrdoljak · Vanja Drach

Synopsis A bus and a truck are moving towards each other along a two-way traffic highway on a rainy day. At the very beginning we learn that a reckless driver of another car will cause them to collide while trying to...

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Slavko Stimac · Slobodan Aligrudic · Ljiljana Blagojevic · Mira Banjac

Synopsis A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. They hire him to hide a young prostitute and he falls in...

Direction Dusan Kovacevic · Bozidar 'Bota' Nikolic

Cast Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic · Bora Todorovic · Mira Banjac · Sonja Savic

Synopsis Ilija Cvorovic is called by the secret police to routinely answer questions about his neighbour, businessman who had returned from the West. After that talk, Cvorovic is convinced that his neighbour represents the greatest threat to national security and begins...

Direction Goran Paskaljevic

Cast Slavko Stimac · Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic · Mira Banjac · Mija Aleksic

Synopsis For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

Direction Ante Babaja

Cast Manca Kosir · Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic · Fabijan Sovagovic · Nela Erzisnik

Synopsis Beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.

Direction Srdjan Karanovic

Cast Marta Keler · Igor Bjelan · Ina Gogálová · Miodrag Krivokapic

Synopsis "Virgina" tells a tale from the end of the 19th century. It took place in a isolated village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When...

Direction Goran Paskaljevic

Cast Ljubisa Samardzic · Jakup Amzic · Neda Arneric · Saban Bajramovic

Synopsis The Guardian Angel in this harrowing film is the one who doesn't protect gypsy children from being sold into virtual slavery with gangs of organized beggars, pickpockets, and thieves all over Europe. Once "on the job," these young children are...

Direction Goran Paskaljevic

Cast Miki Manojlovic · Dragan Maksimovic · Mirjana Karanovic · Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic

Synopsis Set in Yugoslavia just after the second world war when the country is undergoing the communist-led process of "eradication of God". In the little orthodox village of Vitanjia, a stranger appears. The townspeople are convinced that he is the Messiah...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Ljuba Tadic · Olivera Markovic · Kapitalina Eric · Bojan Stupica

Direction Goran Markovic

Cast Mustafa Nadarevic · Anica Dobra · Milorad Mandic · Bogdan Diklic

Synopsis Déjà vu concerns a troubled piano teacher, Mihailo (Mustafa Nadarevic), and his efforts to come to terms with reality through a love affair with a poor but industrious girl, Olgica (Anica Dobra). He is deeply traumatised by the events of...

Direction Slobodan Sijan

Cast Bogdan Diklic · Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic · Pavle Vujisic · Mija Aleksic

Synopsis The story is set between the two World Wars. The Topalovic family consists of five generations of males, with the youngest one aged 25 and the oldest one aged 120. Conflicts breakout in the family because the youngest member refuses...

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Eva Ras · Slobodan Aligrudic · Ruzica Sokic · Miodrag Andric

Synopsis After many adventures, young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.