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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
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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 Tough Ones (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two soldiers can't deal with peacetime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black and white, grindhouse
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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
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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Fliers of the Open Skies (1977)
Plot Summary:
Poetic parable of children in war and their sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Requiem (1970)
Plot Summary:
An American commando officer, in search of his father's killers, becomes part of a plot to capture a trainload of gold bullion destined to finance the Nazi cause. What begins as mission impossible explodes into a battle to rock the Balkans.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 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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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
Plot tags:
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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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The Trek (1968)
Plot Summary:
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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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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Massacre at Noon (1975)
Plot Summary:
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)
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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Balkan Express (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spoof, black comedy, dark comedy, parody
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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
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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)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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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 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
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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
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The Battle of the Eagles (1979)
Plot Summary:
The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: epic, cult film