14 Films & TV Shows Set In Serbia During The 21st Century
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King of the Belgians
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania ๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria ๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ฒ๐ช Montenegro ๐น๐ท Turkey The 2010sThe King of the Belgians is on a state visit in Istanbul when his country falls apart. He must return home at once to save his kingdom. But a solar storm causes airspace and communications to shut down. No planes. No phones. With the help of a British filmmaker and a troupe of Bulgarian folk singers, the King and his entourage manage to escape over the border. Incognito. Thus begins an odyssey across the Balkans during which the King discovers the real world - and himself.
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๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 2010sJasna, a beautiful teenager, leads a crude life in post-war Serbia. She goes on a spree of sex, drugs and partying until she finds love and tenderness in a harsh environment.
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Loveless Zoritsa
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 2010sThe story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl who carries a curse. Ever since her first boyriend mysteriously drowned in the river, men around her are dying in most bizarre ways. The plot thickens when stubborn policeman Maane who doesn't believe in 'village tales' tries to investigate whether Zorica is a serial killer or a girl looking for love.
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When Day Breaks
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 2010sThe story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.
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The Parade
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 2010sThe Parade, in a tragicomic way, tells the story about ongoing battle between two worlds in contemporary post-war Serbian society - the traditional, oppressive, homophobic majority and a liberal, modern and open-minded minority... The film, which deals with gay rights issues in Serbia, features footage of the 2010 Belgrade gay pride parade. The film introduces a group of gay activists, trying to organize a pride parade in Belgrade.
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Technotise: Edit and I
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 2070sMeet your new hero. She's about to blow your mind... โ Belgrade, 2074. Edit Stefanoviฤ, a psychology student, after failing the same university exam for the sixth time, decides to visit a dealer on the black market who installs a stolen military chip in her body that will record everything she sees to help her pass the exam. Edit also has a job at a scientific and social research company, in taking care of Abel Mustafov, an autistic math genius who discovered a formula that connects all forces in the world, but no computer was able to calculate it fully without becoming self-aware and shutting down immediately after that. After Edit sees the formula graph, the chip calculates the formula, and becomes able to "survive" thanks to its connection to Edit. It develops a parallel personality and affords her abilities greater than she ever imagined.
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The Old School of Capitalism
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 2000sA mixture of documentary and fiction examines the new god of Capitalism offered to the Serbs with the ending of state socialism. We look at a number of strikes in Belgrade during the late 2000s and these introduce us to several characters playing themselves. Employees dressed in American football helmets and pads square up with employers' heavies in their bullet-proof vests, resulting in explosive situations. A visit from the Russian tycoon's representative and vice president Joe Biden's arrival further complicates the proceedings.
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Babylon A.D.
New York ๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐จ๐ฆ Canada The 2020sKill or be Killed. โ A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.
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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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Casino Royale
Florida ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฒ๐ฌ Madagascar ๐ฒ๐ช Montenegro England ๐ง๐ธ Bahamas ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia ๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 2000sEveryone has a past. Every legend has a beginning. โ Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bondโon his maiden mission as a 00 Agentโto attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
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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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T.T. Syndrome
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1980s The 1950s The 2000sSeveral people get locked in a turkish bath at night, being hunted by a brutal serial killer, who seems to be seized with the T.T. Syndrome, a brain malady that leads to painful sociopathy.
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Vampir
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 2020sA Serbian Vampire Tale โ A man from London comes to a small remote village in Serbia to look after the cemetery. He starts to have nightmarish visions and suspects the friendly villagers have a more sinister intention with him.