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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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Cat Under a Helmet (1962)
Plot Summary:
A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark
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Merry People Die Twice (1966)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in Bosnia in 1943 between the fourth and fifth enemy offensives column partisans withdrew across a river to free territory. At the moment of crossing the river, a group of Chetniks suddenly attack a column of partisans. In this violent attacks, a lot of partisan dies. Manage to cross the river and so be saved from bullets, only few partisans as a young partisan Radojica young nurse partisan Milica. Radojica and Milica cut off from his brigade, moving in their difficult and arduous hike over the mountains in the hope that they will meet again with the brigade. In this wandering, they will encounter a series of tragic-comic situations. Since the departure of Radojice in prison and subsequent flight to several grisly encounter with the Chetniks, to find the brigade and brave and daring capture of the entire Chetnik detachments and Chetnik duke who was responsible for the attack on the partisans.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark
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Steps Through the Mist (1967)
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After breaking the enemy's rings, a partisan batch is left only with three wounded and two healthy fighters. Through his binoculars, the German captain Anders monitors the surviving soldiers who are walking through the fog in an effort to reach their brigade. Anders quietly starts a manhunt on wounded while anticipating their physical and mental exhaustion.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: epic
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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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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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The South Railway Battle (1978)
Plot Summary:
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 Ambush (1969)
Plot Summary:
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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The Fall of Italy (1981)
Plot Summary:
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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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)
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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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When Heroes Die (1970)
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The story of a group of American commandos assigned to kidnap General Rommel. But the soldiers are caught by the Germans who decide to use their plan against them. Replacing the American soldiers with German soldiers, and with the help of a fake "kidnapped" Rommel, they plan to kill General Eisenhower.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Romance, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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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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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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Scent of Quinces (1982)
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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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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Mirko and Slavko (1973)
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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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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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)
Plot Summary:
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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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 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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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)
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 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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The Demolition Squad (1967)
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The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min
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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