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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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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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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 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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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
Plot tags:
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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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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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Double Circle (1963)
Plot Summary:
Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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 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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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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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
Plot tags:
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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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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
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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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
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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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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Doctor Mladen (1975)
Plot Summary:
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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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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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