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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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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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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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See You in the Next War (1980)
Plot Summary:
The two enemies from war, Slovenian partisan Berk and German soldier Bitter, meet each other during holidays in Spain. Recalling the war through conversation, Berk remembers Anton, his fellow comrade he had spend the most time with.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min
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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)
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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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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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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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Doctor Homer's Brother (1968)
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This film predominantly deals with the problems of a young man whom his delusions led into conflict with society. These issues will throw him into an adventure that would be tragic for him, but still helpful for him to see the truth. The story takes place in Kosovo in 1945, in an atmosphere of uncured wounds, wandering, betrayal, burned homes, typhoid and other postwar misery. An authentic story from those days was taken as the film's basis.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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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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Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978)
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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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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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Operation Stadium (1977)
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This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The event, however, took an unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
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Scent of Quinces (1982)
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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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Great Transport (1983)
Plot Summary:
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 134 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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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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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)
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)
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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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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 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)
Plot Summary:
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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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
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Snow and Fire (1991)
Plot Summary:
While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a significant portion of their country from German control, he and his buddy Michel (Matthieu Roze) can join the Free French army and fight with them to help bring about the downfall of the German empire. Both of them are quite young men, and their first love turns out to be the same woman, a lovely nurse named Christiane (Geraldine Pailhas). Michel woos her first, and she becomes pregnant by him. However, she is much more interested in Jacques, even though she is considering marrying an American solely for practical reasons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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