52 Films & TV Shows Set In Serbia During The 20th Century
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Balkan Line
๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฝ๐ฐ Kosovo ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sNo choice โ After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK terrorists. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
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The Load
๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ฝ๐ฐ Kosovo The 1990sVlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.
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King Petar the First
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 20th CenturyThe story of the Serbian army, led by the King Peter, through the World War I.
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American Renegades
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990s The 1940s5 Navy SEALs. $300 million in gold. 1 incredible mission. โ In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidden at the bottom of a lake in Serbia.
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ZG80
๐ญ๐ท Croatia ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1980sZG80 is a prequel of Metastaze. The movie brings back its characters to prewar Yugoslavia where they, as part of Bad Blue Boys, go on a football match in Belgrade to see Dinamo play against Crvena Zvezda. They encounter guest fans, their arch rivals Delije, in a series of events that lead to football fans war on the streets of Belgrade.
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A Stowaway on the Ship of Fools
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 20th CenturyThe story takes place in the Belgrade mental hospital on Guberevac during the WWI, where notable Serbian writer Petar Koฤiฤ spends his last years of life. The safety of mental hospital in a war-torn Belgrade is disrupted when the deputy military governor in occupied Belgrade, Kosta Herman, finds out that Koฤiฤ is in the hospital and decides to settle old scores with him.
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We Will Be the World Champions
๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia The 1970sThe story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and development of basketball in their country.
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See You in Montevideo
๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐บ๐พ Uruguay The 1930sA football team from Belgrade, former Republic of Yugoslavia gets a chance to go to the First World Football Championship, but things get complicated along the way.
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No One's Child
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sThe movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize him and got the Muslim name โ Haris. Contrary to most predictions, he was developing and making friends quickly. When the war in BiH broke out in 1992, Haris got the letter from local Bosnian authorities which asked for his immediate return. Upon returning to BiH, he had nowhere to go. While wandering aimlessly, he came across a group of soldiers that gave him a gun and took him with them
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Mama's Boy
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sMiddle-aged cinephile and film projectionist Pera still lives with his mother - and best friend - Mara, in Belgrade. It's 1999 and when NATO bombs start raining down on Serbia, the two of them become refugees. After a surreal journey, they end up in New York, where Pera realizes that he can no longer do the old job he loved so much. While he and Mara were struggling to survive, the new age of digital projection was born. Then Pera stumbles upon some discarded projectors and his new mission in life becomes clear: he will travel around and show people the magic of Real Cinema - the magic that can only be created by celluoid, mechanical projectors, the silver screen and flickering light.
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Killing Season
Georgia ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sThe purest form of war is one on one. โ Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, clash in the remote Smoky Mountain wilderness.
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Circles
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sCircles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.
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Doctor Ray and the Devils
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1960sThe story behind and around famous American director Nicholas Ray's 1960s stay in SFR Yugoslavia. The celebrated director who was the toast of Hollywood only a decade earlier having made Rebel Without a Cause has fallen on hard times and is now desperately trying to re-establish his spiraling film career. On the other hand, his powerful host, Avala Film director and former Yugoslav secret service operative Ratko Draลพeviฤ, is dreaming big dreams - he is trying to establish a 'Hollywood behind the Iron Curtain' of sorts.
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Montevideo, God Bless You!
๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐บ๐พ Uruguay The 1930sWhen a dream becomes a legend. โ A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
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The Belgrade Phantom
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1970sBelgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979; a mysterious "Phantom" occupies the attention and hearts of Belgrade. Every night, he exhibits spectacular driving maneuvers using a stolen white Porsche car through the city streets.
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St. George Shoots the Dragon
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1910sLove triangle story between the village gendarme ฤorฤe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Balkan War and World War I.
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Ordinary People
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sThe story of a soldier faced with mission of executing prisoners in an unspecified place and time. The film follows a hot summer day in the life of Dลพoni, a twenty-year-old recruit, who is sent to an abandoned farm on an unknown mission. The soldiers wait to battle unnamed terrorists, but instead, a bus full of prisoners arrives to the barracks. The commander orders the soldiers to execute the prisoners. At first, Dลพoni is shocked by the cruel killings, but as more prisoners arrive, he begins to enjoy the executions.
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Solemn Promise
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1910sAt the beginning of the World War I, Filip, a Serbian school director in the Serbian province, has been asked to immediately go to Belgrade to get war schedule. His wife Lea, Slovene, with no one to leave because the two of them recently arrived in the small town and no one really knows them. Azem, an Albanian, school attendance, gives Filip a promise (Besa) to watch the Lea and that nothing will happen. Lea and Azem, are forced to live together in an abandoned school. Their relationship changes during the time.
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Tears for Sale
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1930s The 1920sStory of two sisters that grew up in a small Serbian village in the beginning of the 1930s. The village is torn up by wars and years long blood oath. There are no men left in the village. Our heroines, Ognjenka and Mala Boginja decide to go to the city, kidnap men and return life to their village. The lights of the metropolis dazzle them and there starts this little amusing and sentimental adventure.
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The Tour
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sYear 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
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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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We Are Not Angels 3: Rock & Roll Strike Back
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1970s The 2000sWe Are Not Angels III is a Serbian film. In 1973 during a Youth Work Action, budding musician Borko Paviฤ (Nikola Pejakoviฤ) is disappointed to find out that the majority of his fellow young workers prefer to dance kolo to folkish harmonica sounds rather than listening to him play his acoustic guitar. Heartbroken and depressed he confides in his best friend that he read that in America the young people make the devil appear by playing the music backwards who then makes them rich and famous. He becomes the mega popular rock'n'roll superstar Dorijan. Cut to 30+ years later Dorijan is still a debauched, coke-snorting, and alcoholic superstar, except that he's now playing turbo folk instead of rock'n'roll. He lives with a silicone trophy girlfriend Smokvica and his best friend from childhood is his business manager. Despite still having his women, fame, and fortune, Dorijan is unhappy about having to resort to playing a musical style he hates in order to have all that.
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The Robbery of the Third Reich
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1940sDuring 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authorities ever.
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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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The Hunted
Oregon ๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ฝ๐ฐ Kosovo The 1990s The 2000sSome men should not be found. โ In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallumโhis former studentโwho has 'gone rogue' after suffering severe battle stress from his time in Kosovo.
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