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Plot Summary:
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Sunrise (1964)
Plot Summary:
A train driver has a rival in his godson for his wife. During a crisis on the train, he refuses to kill him or let him die in a crash.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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When I Am Dead and Gone (1967)
Plot Summary:
The story about Jimmy the Dingy, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Restless (1967)
Plot Summary:
One night, after disastrous road accident, the eyewitnesses were claiming that they saw a woman behind the steering wheel. It was actually three teenagers who stole Peugeot 404 to drive around for fun, but the girl who hitch-hiked them left the car in the middle of highway. They have been chased by the police and crashed fatally. The police continues their intense search to find the fourth person.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Birch Tree (1967)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: depressing
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Crazy Days (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of Dalmatian guest workers from Germany come to their native town on Easter holidays. They usually spend time in a local pub playing cards, drinking and yelling. Jure is the most successful and bragging among them, while Klempo is considered poorest since he didn't built the house or bought a car. Annoyed by poor cards, Klempo places a bet with Jure that he made more money than him. The loser must give everything to winner and then walk around the town naked.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Bloodshed at the Wedding (1967)
Plot Summary:
The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the great powers manage to free themselves. On the day of her wedding comes Bey with his army to try to get it back. Cveta dies, Spasa killing Bey and and goes to the committees.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: epic
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Days of Dreams (1980)
Plot Summary:
A routine, slightly superficial look at a young woman's romantic coming-of-age. The attractive teen is tending a flock of sheep in the middle of nowhere, nowhere except for an adjacent military base. One of the pilots at the base has a penchant for flying low over the sun-bathing maiden as he snaps a photo or two of her on the ground. This is a whole new way of making a pass, but it works. He later arranges to contact her and brings his photos with him, along with his dishonorable intentions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Superfluous (1962)
Plot Summary:
Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena, a girl who as if she were overabundant, followed him to work the labour action. Mikajlo's courtship of Nada provokes laughter and ridicule, so ambitious 'Don Juan' returns to his brigade and the girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Return (1966)
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An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a young criminal who shares the same nickname replaces him in these actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Wild Seed (1967)
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A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a killing spree, causing panic among the locals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: black and white
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It Happened on This Very Day (1987)
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Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different backgrounds and social status, but of similar views about love and self-affirmation, spend their time together. Their friendship is dyed with various events typical for socialism, such as working actions or Youth Day's parade. All what happens within this yard may become an allegory of one generation's destiny.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
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Kuduz (1989)
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After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for years. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Horoscope (1969)
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A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. They are especially focused on a pretty girl that sells newspapers, and they make a bet which one will seduce her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Servants (2020)
Plot Summary:
Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ireland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: thrilling, black and white, crying
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I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
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The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black and white, surreal, mondo
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It Rains in My Village (1968)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black and white, serious, realistic
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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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Young and Healthy as a Rose (1971)
Plot Summary:
Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of local police.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Crows (1969)
Plot Summary:
A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Feast (1967)
Plot Summary:
In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978)
Plot Summary:
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship, between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. When the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the state of Croatia. The Italian boy becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish parentage, or of leftist leanings, is killed. The Jewish boy and the factory owner's son escape the general roundup, take revenge for some of the indignities they and their families have suffered, and join the anti-fascist underground.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black and white, pre war
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Holed-Up (2017)
Plot Summary:
A story of a famous actor named Grahme who witnessed a director assault an actress two years ago. Now Grahme is working with Richard (the very same director), on a new film and this time with Malorie, a new leading lady. Grahme's manager Steve can only try to help Grahme along with his crazy behavior, clueless of the assault but caring for his friend. HOLED-UP is centered around essentially, rape. All while during the making of a fictional film.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: dark, independent film, black and white
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Family Nest (1979)
Plot Summary:
Családi tüzfészek (aka Family Nest) is an intimate portrayal of a family slowly disintegrating under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary. The plot of the film is deceptively simple, with the occasional momentous event--including one that's relatively shocking, but plot in a conventional sense is not the focus here.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, black and white
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Virgina (1991)
Plot Summary:
"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 the wife of a farmer gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man, so that she can work and be the family heir. This heartbreaking story of Virgina's life is told with strong words, augmented with harsh environment.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Body Scent (1983)
Plot Summary:
Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Evening Bells (1986)
Plot Summary:
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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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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Black Birds (1967)
Plot Summary:
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Sokol Did Not Love Him (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German army. Sima doesn't want to let his son fight for the wrong side any more, and doesn't want to give him to the Partisans either, so he hides him in his attic for the time being. The story is interwoven with episodes of Sima trying to muster a beautiful stallion - Sokol - who only answers to his son Beneš and clearly doesn't like his old man.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Early Works (1969)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of morale, their revolution fails and the girl is one to be sacrificed as a witness of their unsuccessful attempt.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, sexual, sexy, suspense