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Plot Summary:
Live-action adaptation of the popular Yugoslav comic book about two young Partisan couriers in World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: epic, crying
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Wolf of Prokletije (1968)
Plot Summary:
Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: epic
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Two Nights in a Day (1963)
Plot Summary:
Commander Pavle receives partisan Jovan to shot him for not executing his orders. While listening to his unfortunate love story from the war, Pavle remembers his own relationship which had an equally bitter epilogue, and decides to set Jovan free.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min
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The Igman March (1983)
Plot Summary:
The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: epic, dark, crying
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Manhunt (1977)
Plot Summary:
The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunting them instead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: black and white, epic
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The Stars Are the Eyes of Warriors (1972)
Plot Summary:
When 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.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: epic
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Arrive Before Daybreak (1978)
Plot Summary:
The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
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Persecution (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: epic
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Bomb at 10:10 (1967)
Plot Summary:
An American pilot escapes from a POW camp and links up with Yugoslav partisans. He’s about to head back to Allied lines when he learns that the Partisans are plotting to assassinate the camp commander. He joins in the plot, aiming for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min
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Red Blow (1974)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: War, Action
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
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The Escape (1987)
Plot Summary:
The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min
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Maiden Bridge (1976)
Plot Summary:
"Maiden Bridge" is a place of exchange of German prisoners and partisans captured by the Germans. Unit with nine captured Germans is marching towards the bridge. there is double trouble for partisans, since they are surrounded by the hostiles and also going directly into the hands of ruthless enemy leaders.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, History, War, Western
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crying, spaghetti western
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A Bloody Tale (1969)
Plot Summary:
Memory of the victims of the Kragujevac massacre is described through the events that are related to a group of boys, shoe shiners. At that time, thousands of workers refused to work for the invaders, and the whole city was exposed to harsh repression and persecution of innocent citizens and the abolition of the regular rations of food.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: epic
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The Trek (1968)
Plot Summary:
A 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Macedonian Part of Hell (1971)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population. The movie is based on true events,.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: epic, crying, iconic
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Low Tide (1969)
Plot Summary:
A remote village in Serbia in 1941. Through the fate of rural residents and the destiny of a partisan detachment reflected is the horror and absurdity of war in Serbia during World War II. On one hand, ordinary people and partisans; the Germans and the Chetniks on the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: epic
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Tactical Guerilla (1974)
Plot Summary:
Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA, Liechtenstein
Duration: 102 min
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Silent Gunpowder (1990)
Plot Summary:
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: silent, silent film
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Massacre at Noon (1975)
Plot Summary:
In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in this movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: heroic, crying
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Girl from the Mountains (1972)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between a boy and a girl shortly after the start of the war and the arrival of the Germans. He goes to Chetniks, and there he disappears without a trace, and she ,after much torture and solitude, begins to search for him not thinking in those moments of what the horrors of war can bring.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min
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July 13th (1982)
Plot Summary:
This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people dissatisfied with the new authorities, on July 13, 1941 decided that the Communists led start to fight for freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: epic, crying
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A Trap for the General (1971)
Plot Summary:
Immediately after the war, OZNA insert an outstanding intelligence agent to catch the General Draza Mihajlovic.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: epic
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Wild Wind (1985)
Plot Summary:
August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is sealed. Armadas of American bombers from bases in North Africa have begun to assault Pioesti - and there is another threat from the Partisans across the border of Yugoslavia. Against the tableau of spectacular events, the dramatic story of WILD WIND unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min
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Three (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this episodic WW II drama, a Yugoslavian youth attempts to escape from German soldiers. In the first scene, he stands amongst a group of refugees waiting for a train. One man, with no identification papers is accused of a petty crime and the crowd insists that three soldiers arrest him. The youth tries to stop them all, but he fails and the man is executed. Soon afterward, his wife shows up and proves that he was indeed innocent. In the second episode, the youth participates in a resistance raid and ends up pursued into a swamp where he meets another fugitive. This man ends up sacrificing his life so that the youth can escape. The final story begins as the war ends. The youth has become an officer in the Yugoslav army and is being forced to deliver an order to execute all citizens who collaborated with the Germans. One of the traitors is a woman he cares for, but this doesn't stop him from obeying his commands.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Verdict (1977)
Plot Summary:
In the conflict with the enemy in one battle lost in advance, the risk to die in vain, partisan Mitko Angelov, fleeing from the battlefield. He climbs onto the train and goes to see his mother, who has just returned from internment. When he returned to the brigade, Mitko was declared a deserter and was disarmed and bound. Since he lost his weapon, the Commissioner sent him to patrol the action to take weapons from the Germans. All partisans patrol that went with him dying and the only Mitko and Vane, who was seriously injured remain alive. Thinking it was dead Vane, Angelov returns to the brigade. But the commander did not believe him, thinking that he had fled from the battle, and that is why the prison in the basement. In the meantime, get wounded fighter Vane, and the story of the heroic struggle led by Mitko. But at the same time, a military court condemned him to death for desertion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
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The Descent upon Drvar (1963)
Plot Summary:
German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: epic
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The Soldier (1966)
Plot Summary:
A story of a boy, forced to grow mature before his time and to die too early because of the cruel war circumstances. This film is dedicated to all the children who have died during the National Liberation War.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Peaks of Zelengore (1976)
Plot Summary:
During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on German units Ljubino grave, to the main Partisan units, with the wounded and the Supreme Headquarters, pulled out the ring that is tightened around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: epic
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The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of the Battle of Sutjeska which occurred in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1943.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: epic, crying, mythical
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Kozara (1962)
Plot Summary:
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: epic, crying, black and white
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Guns of War (1974)
Plot Summary:
Uzice Republic a known as the 'first offensive', is a story about Serbia in 1941. Few months after German panzers forced Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate, organized resistance is turning into massive uprising against occupying forces. Partizans, led by Communist party, manage to chase Germans from huge territory later known as the Uzice Republic. However, forces loyal to King have some other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: epic, crying
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