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Plot Summary:
Thanks to his friendliness towards Nazis, Sarajevo businessman gets more and more rich during WW2. However, his infatuation towards the Jewish girl causes his downfall.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min
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Berlin kaputt (1981)
Plot Summary:
Story of three partisans whose fates are determined by different encounters with women.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min
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The South Railway Battle (1978)
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Autumn, 1941. Tito's partisans are ordered to attack a railway network system used by the Germans, their Bulgarian allies and local collaborators. A bloody battle ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min
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How to Die (1972)
Plot Summary:
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
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The Pals (1979)
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The war is over, and a group of young Partisans returns to their town to continue their interrupted education. They are doing everything in their way, because they are young enough to go to school and to horse around, but mature enough to react to lies and injustice. Loud, ready to fight, they are a problem in school, in youth organization, in town's command. And when they get used to normal life, one of them gets killed by Chetnik renegades' ambush. The comrades wear their uniforms again, take their weapons and succeed in revenging their comrade. When they return to school again, they are determined to pass the maturity test as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Ambush (1969)
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Idealistic 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Outrage (1982)
Plot Summary:
After the end of World War II, a young partisan falls in love with a German secretary who is captured and imprisoned by partisans. He decides to free her and escape with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min
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Escapes (1968)
Plot Summary:
Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
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The Fall of Italy (1981)
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The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: epic
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Two Nights in a Day (1963)
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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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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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Eight Kilos of Happiness (1980)
Plot Summary:
A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min
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The Trek (1968)
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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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Low Tide (1969)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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Wedding (1973)
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Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
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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)
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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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And This Will Pass, Too... (1985)
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Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go to the river. On the bank of the Sava river meets an old friend, a former captain in love with the river. Accepting new way of life, isidor becomes a different man. But it comes terrifying wartime.Yugoslavia was occupied, the terror begins. Isidor is witnessed changes and in him growing need to resist the atrocities of the invaders. He refuses to flee with his family from Belgrade, it becomes illegal brave, little hero of invisible front.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min
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Three (1965)
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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)
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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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Doctor Mladen (1975)
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The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The film is about Dr. Mladen Stojanovic legend of Kozara and Krajina, great man, humanist, friend, and finally the commander one of a the proud partisan detachment, which is that area brought for a moment bring much desired freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: epic
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Orchestra of One Youthhood (1985)
Plot Summary:
True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
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The Soldier (1966)
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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 Bombers (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min
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Kozara (1962)
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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)
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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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