102 Films & TV Shows Set In Croatia
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Occupation in 26 Pictures
🇭🇷 CroatiaSet 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. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.
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Operation Stadium
🇭🇷 Croatia The 1940sThis 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.
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Train in the Snow
🇭🇷 CroatiaOne class of school children from a small village make the trip to Zagreb. One of the boys gets sick and the class is forced to go home. During their journey the train gets stuck in a snowstorm.
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Thinking only of the prestige it will bring, a corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet -- over the objections of the village teacher, who knows the tale well. The clever teacher, however, casts the son of a man the commissar has framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.
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Deps
🇭🇷 CroatiaA film about a small-time gangster, a loser who seems is finally on the road of going straight.
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You Get It, Man
🇭🇷 CroatiaOur hero is Glista - a young Zagreb punk whose (sub)urban adventures depict his world and philosophy.
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Real Truth
🇭🇷 Croatia The 1970sBožidarka Frajt (playing herself) is an actress who is unsuccessfully looking for a job in Zagreb. The film follows her everyday life: she spends time with her friends and colleagues, shoots a television commercial, goes to a party, remembers her difficult childhood as a war orphan, and contemplates her professional and personal failures. Finally, she visits theatre manager Vjeran Zuppa in his office and asks for a job.
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One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away
🇭🇷 Croatia The 1930sSet in pre-World War II Zagreb, the story is seen through the eyes of 6-year-old Perica Šafranek (played by Tomislav Žganec). A dandy from Zagreb, Mr Fulir (played by Relja Bašić), starts flirting with Perica's mother during a family picnic. At first, Perica's father doesn't notice anything, but wants to marry off Perica's aunt, so he invites the man to their residence. After multiple rendezvous, Perica's father becomes aware of Fulir's attempts to seduce his wife.
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Accidental Life
🇭🇷 CroatiaTwo friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made.
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I Have Two Mothers and Two Fathers
🇭🇷 CroatiaThe parents of a two boys remarried after divorce. The older one stayed with his father and his attractive young wife, while the younger one stayed with the mother and her new husband. On Sundays, the two boys visit the other family alternately, and the younger Djuro will soon realize that they have much more in common.
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The Harem
🇭🇷 CroatiaA seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
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Illusion
🇭🇷 CroatiaThe story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.
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Protest
🇭🇷 CroatiaA man cannot bear the superficiality of human relationships, and when his best friend lets him down, he commits suicide by jumping off a skyscraper.
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Rondo
🇭🇷 CroatiaEvery Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia's wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters.
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Monday or Tuesday
🇭🇷 CroatiaOne workday of one man in the city — A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During the day many thoughts and images pass through his mind - the memories of childhood, ex-wife, current girlfriend, but mostly his father who died in a war.
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From Russia with Love
England 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇹🇷 TurkeyThe world's masters of murder pull out all the stops to destroy Agent 007! — Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy
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The Alphabet of Fear
🇭🇷 Croatia The 1940sIn order to gather informations about high-ranking collaborationist official, the resistance movement sends a girl to spy on him. She uses the cover of illiterate chambermaid from the country. In the beginning nobody is suspicious, but her cover would be endangered when the official's daughter starts to teach her reading.
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Adventure at the Door
🇭🇷 CroatiaStory of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium.
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The Ninth Circle
🇭🇷 CroatiaIn order to save friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl from the Ustashas, Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo.
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Signal Over the City
🇭🇷 Croatia The 1940sThe movie is based on true events that occured in Croatian city of Karlovac in 1941. In order to save the imprisoned high ranking member of the resistance movement, the group of Partizans are conducting daring raid in the very center of the enemy stronghold.
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H-8...
🇭🇷 Croatia 🇷🇸 SerbiaA bus and a truck are moving towards each other along a two-way traffic highway on a rainy day. At the very beginning we learn that a reckless driver of another car will cause them to collide while trying to pass the bus; we even learn what seats will spell doom for their occupants. The rest of the movie follows two streams of events on the bus and on the truck, getting us to know and like a wide variety of characters, wondering which ones will end up being casualties and holding breath for our favourites. The epilogue brings some more surprises...
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We're Going Separate Ways
🇭🇷 CroatiaA group of partisan illegals entangled in a love triangle during Ustasha reign in Nazi-occupied Zagreb.
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The Jubilee of Mr Ikel
🇭🇷 Croatia The 1920sA man wakes up in his grave and realizes that he's been buried alive. He gets up and arrives home only to find out that his wife and relatives threw a party instead of mourning, looking forward to his big inheritance.
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Perfidy
🇭🇷 Croatia The 19th CenturyA story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.
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Once I Will Return
🇭🇷 CroatiaA millionaire returns from the United States to his native Dubrovnik.
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