67 Films & TV Shows Set In Bosnia and Herzegovina During The 20th Century
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The Hunting Party
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990s The 2000sHow can they find the world's most wanted war criminal when the C.I.A. can't... By actually looking? โ A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
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The Living and the Dead
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990s50 years apart, two armies will fight to the same death... โ In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
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In the Name of the Son
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sAfter escaping execution, Tarik, a Bosnian prisoner of war, immigrates to the United States looking to leave his past behind.
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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sA woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
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Warchild
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sYears after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family.
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Bosnia Diaries
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThe diary of two travels to Bosnia (1996 and 1998) and the clash with the memories of war. โ I went to Bosnia after war ended, in 1996, when the Danton Peace Accord was being implemented. Bosnia had been divided in two entities, which separated the two main opposing forces of the conflict; the Serb Bosnians and the Muslim Bosnians. Two years later, in 1998, I returned to Bosnia... This movie is a diary of the two voyages, in which I deal with the memories of the war, the death and destruction and with the victimโs struggle who donโt know how to return home.
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Go West
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sIn the nineties the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred. Trapped in Sarajevo during the siege of the Serb forces, the lovers manage to flee to Milan's home village and there they take shelter, waiting for Milan's father, Ljubo, to find a way to the Netherlands. Witnessing the brutality of Serb forces and their hatred towards Muslims, Milan desperately improvises: he disguises Kenan as a woman and begins to present him as his wife, Milena, a secret discovered by Milan's best friend, Lunja. Milan is drafted into the army and the situation becomes almost unbearable for Kenan. His one companion, is Ranka, a waitress in a local cafรฉ, a woman whose dark secrets terrify most of the villagers ...
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War Crimes
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThriller - After graduating college, a group of friends from the UK decide to take a trip to the Balkans. Little did they know that a war was about to break out. As the fighting spreads to the city of Sarajevo, they must escape for their lives through the countryside. After witnessing a massacre in Bosnia, they are detected and pursued by a ruthless Yugoslav People's Army officer and his brutal fighters. With limited supplies, winter approaching and murderous special armed forces chasing them down, will they ever make it home alive? - James Bickersteth, Dean Bolt, Jan Castellari
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Back to Bosnia
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sFilmmaker Sabina Vajraca documents her Bosnian Muslim family's return to their home of Banja Luka, Bosnia, to recover their stolen belongings many years after being forced to flee to the United States. In Bosnia, they witness the devastation of the city, visit war crimes sites, and confront the family that has been living in their former apartment -- with all their furnishings -- for a decade.
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Life Is a Miracle
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sSet during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.
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Notre musique
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sJean-Luc Godard's poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven". The first segment is a montage of war images from documentary and fictional sources. The second concerns two young Jewish women attending a European arts conference in Sarajevo. The final segment concerns the after life.
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The Red Colored Grey Truck
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia The 1990sBelgrade, the summer of 1991. Yugoslavia is falling apart. Gavran can't get a driving licence because he is color blind. He is a rural Bosnian introvert obsessed with trucks. So, as soon as he is released from prison, he steals a truck to go on a joyride. Suzana, a city girl, discovers she is pregnant, but until she's due for an abortion, she decides to go to Dubrovnik. She hitchikes and Gavran almost runs her over. She is unhurt, but she blackmails him to take her to Dubrovnik. Two people from different worlds, equally removed from the real one. For him she is the first woman he can talk to; for her he is just another idiot to add to the long list of them that she has so far compiled. But the pressure of danger and the intimations of war force them together. The world about them has become so absurd that they seem to each other the only sober people left.
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Fuse
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sTwo years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.
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Remake
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThis film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo.
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Where Eskimos Live
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThe only thing he wanted was money. What he found was worth much more. โ Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive, they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption.
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Behind Enemy Lines
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990sHis only weapon is his will to survive. โ While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.
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No Man's Land
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sA lot can happen between the lines โ Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
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Warriors
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sIf the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.
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Tactical Assault
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sEvery war has its secrets. This one's about to explode. โ In this high-flying action thriller, an expert Air Force flyer finds himself forced to use every trick he has ever learned to stop a murderous, insane former colleague and friend from exacting deadly revenge upon him.
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Beautiful People
England ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sA comic collision of chaos and coincidence โ In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
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Savior
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sHe's fighting a war he doesn't believe in, hoping to find something he does. โ A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
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Shot Through the Heart
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sTwo Friends. Two Marksmen. Two Targets. Each Other. โ The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the other becomes a freedom fighter, who rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. As might be expected, the two eventually have to face-off against one another.
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Demons of War
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sA detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will also replace Keller as CO. When the camp's RTO receives a communication from a downed Norwegian chopper, Keller ignores his standing orders and leads a platoon to rescue the crew.
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The Peacemaker
New York ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sHow do you get the world's attention? โ When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
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Welcome to Sarajevo
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sTo get the story, theyโll risk everything. โ Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevoโnow a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker whoโs trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
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