Goran Bogdan

Acting

Goran Bogdan

Born

1980-10-02 (46)

Place of birth

Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Goran Bogdan (born 2 October 1980) is a Croatian actor. He has played in more than 40 films since 2005. He has appeared in some American and English films and TV series such as the 2012 film Goltzius and the Pelican Company, and the third season of the television series Fargo.

Known for

Fargo poster
8.3

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Fargo

2014

Shadows over the Balkans poster
7.8

A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

Shadows over the Balkans

2017

Morning Changes Everything poster
6.3

Lack of money, inability to find a permanent job, living with parents or roommates, unsettled love relationships — this is how the life of most young people in Serbia could be described. Through the four friends' struggle with the life challenges, the series also tries to evoke the spirit of Belgrade today: it talks about those who live in it, those who leave it, but also those who return to it.

Morning Changes Everything

2018

The Last Panthers poster
5.8

The six-part series opens with a daring diamond heist before quickly delving into the dark heart of Europe where a shadowy alliance of gangsters and 'banksters' now rules. Naomi is the British loss adjustor charged with recovering the stolen diamonds whatever the cost. Also in pursuit is French-Algerian policeman Khalil.

The Last Panthers

2015

The Silence poster
6.8

Dramatic events unfold in Croatia and Ukraine. The first girl drowned, the second one died from a drug overdose. The main suspect in these deaths, however, soon turns out to be innocent - and dead too. While detective Vladimir and reporter Stribor struggle to solve these murders in Croatia, the niece of Olga, an Ukrainian philanthropist, goes missing in Kyiv.

The Silence

2021

Underneath poster
5.8

Facing his own past, an investigator unravels the mystery behind three cruel, ritualistic murders.

Underneath

2020

Film credits

2020s · 26 titles

Sore: A Wife from the Future poster
7.4

A young man living alone in Croatia encounters a woman who claims to be his wife from the future, sent on a mission to help him correct his bad habits and improve his lifestyle.

Sore: A Wife from the Future

2025

Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead poster
5.0

Centuries after the Great Flood, riders compete in death races on the water to secure shelter for their people behind the walls of Argos. Rebellious storm riders Neb and Ana look to uncover hidden truths by breaking through the storm.

Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead

2026

Faraway poster
6.5

Zeynap Altin is at the end of her tether: she works far too much and is not valued at all by her husband, daughter and father. To make matters worse, the funeral home dressed her beloved late mother in a man's suit instead of her favorite dress. Enough is enough: Zeynep flees from Munich to the previously unknown holiday home on a Croatian island that her mother secretly bought years ago - with the hope of finding quiet, peace and herself there. If only the previous owner Josip, a rough islander, didn't still live on the same property and annoy her with his views and wisdom.

Faraway

2023

Father poster
7.6

Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.

Father

2020

That's It for Today poster
8.0

By baking his favorite dessert – coconut cubes, the siblings manage to lure their eldest brother back home. Time seems to cease to exist, and a tale of happy people unfolds. Seemingly ordinary summer days turn extraordinary. In love with life, they elevate reality above the ground, dispersing any and all dark clouds with their joyous spirit.

That's It for Today

2024

Sounds of Cicadas poster
NR

A migrant father's relentless pursuit of a better future forces his son to endure the emotional cost of survival.

Sounds of Cicadas

2026

Happy New Year 2 poster
4.2

In this romantic comedy sequel, Hana prepares for her perfect wedding in Croatia, but rollicking chaos ensues when her three best friends get involved.

Happy New Year 2

2021

Concrete Plans poster
6.1

When their employer tries to cheat them out of a job, a rugged crew of workmen turn first on him then each other, leading to a bloody confrontation.

Concrete Plans

2020

The Antique poster
6.7

A young Georgian man named Lado is involved in smuggling antique furniture from Georgia to Russia. Medea, Lado’s girlfriend, buys herself an apartment in St. Peterburg’s historic center. At the time of the unlawful deportation of thousands of Georgians from Russia, Lado is caught and deported.

The Antique

2024

Stellar poster
NR

In one day-night journey, two young sisters, recollect memories of their recently deceased father. Encountering the cruel world of grown-ups, they keep the ultimate freedom that only kids have. Only way they can fight is to stick together.

Stellar

2024

Forever Hold Your Peace poster
7.0

Two days before the wedding, Dragana decides that she will not marry the weak and predictable Momo. His headstrong father Leso strikes a deal with her – to act as the bride just for the day. But instead of saving the family’s honor, it only starts a traumatic farce for everyone involved.

Forever Hold Your Peace

2024

Oasis poster
6.9

Upon her arrival at an institution for people with mental disabilities, Maria becomes fast friends with the equally fiery Dragana. When it becomes clear that they are both in love with the more withdrawn Robert, their relationship is upset and gradually grows into a dangerous game of hide-and-seek to win him over. Being condemned to a lifetime of hiding away from society, the three teenagers’ profound longing for independence and human connection takes hold. Driven by the newfound feelings of desire and envy, their impulsive actions topple the delicate balance preserved by the institution’s stifling rules and spill over into confrontation and desperate measures for any way out.

Oasis

2020

The Uncle poster
6.7

Yugoslavia, late 1980s. Parents and son are hastily making the final preparations for Christmas Eve dinner. Their beloved uncle will be turning up from Germany any minute now. But, hang on, are things really as they seem? An unnerving debut à la Haneke that cleverly balances on the edge of farce and oppressive thriller while ingeniously toying with narrative structure.

The Uncle

2022

Good Times, Bad Times poster
8.0

Sitting in a restaurant representing the waiting room to the other world, a tired old man watches the patrons who represent him and his immediate family during the important moments of his life. Moments that have impacted him and the family, and have turned him into a man he was at the end of his life. The old man is forced to look these events in an objective way, observe them from the sidelines, as the judge and jury of a tragic life filled with regret, bitterness, and bad decisions. At a certain point, it becomes clear that the old man has actually died and is watching his own life.

Good Times, Bad Times

2023

Have You Seen This Woman? poster
6.3

In the heat of a summer day, Draginja discovers a dead body that resembles her. In the heat of a summer day, Draginja hires a fake husband to show off in front of her friends. In the cold of a winter night, Draginja roams the streets hoping to recover her lost memory. Through three different life possibilities, a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.

Have You Seen This Woman?

2022

Imaginary Numbers poster
10.0

Mirna and her father take the bus from their village to the city of Niš for her to participate in the national mathematics competition. It is a big day: winning an award could gain her a place at a prestigious school and pave the way to a better future.

Imaginary Numbers

2026

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent poster
6.4

1993. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

2025

Kick and Scream poster
NR

Kick and Scream follows the final half-hour of a marriage. Through the perspectives of wife, husband and their six-year-old child, where reality is intertwined with puppet play, we learn about their own truths, becoming less certain of our initial judgment of character.

Kick and Scream

2022

78 Days poster
8.8

After their father is conscripted during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, three sisters begin a Hi8 video diary in their countryside home. They film each other putting on make-up, picking cherries, playing party games, getting into fights and helping their mother cook. This fragile, intimate world is perhaps their only shelter from the reality of bombings, sirens and war.

78 Days

2024

Tereza37 poster
4.6

After several miscarriages, Tereza's gynecologist, in an attempt to cheer her up, jokes she should try to conceive with a different partner. This remark shakes up her monotonous life and steers it in a new direction.

Tereza37

2020

No Way Home poster
6.0

Set in a industrial wasteland, a young boy discovers a injured man who he thinks is his father.

No Way Home

2023

The Great Tram Robbery poster
4.0

Boško Tokin, the hero, was the first filmmaker in the Balkans and the first in the world to go to prison for it.

The Great Tram Robbery

2025

The Virus of Pathological Kindness poster
NR

On a cold winter's night in 1983, a young teacher of Serbo-Croatian recieves a surprise visit. A nude man, claiming to be from Belgrade in the far future tells her that the world as they know it will crumble and that he believes he knows how to stop it.

The Virus of Pathological Kindness

2026

Utopolis poster
NR

The silent struggle and systematic hate between Greek natives and refugees will lead to their brutal confrontation over the course of one night

Utopolis

2025

Our Everyday Life poster
NR

Family Susic lives everyday Bosnian story. Father Muhamed (63) is employed in a reputable company; mother Marija (60) is retired. Son Sasa (35), who spent the war in Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives with his parents, while their daughter Senada (40) lives in Slovenia. Their life begins to fall apart because of father's dissatisfaction after his company is sold on the stock exchange, Sasa's negligent attitude towards work and family, Marija's breast cancer diagnose. When problems begin to line up Muhamed and Sasa realize that actually only family is important, that it is man's last oasis

Our Everyday Life

2022

The Lost Son poster
NR

A detective runs into his violent brother he hasn't seen in twelve years. While trying to help him, his actions trigger repercussions that will shake their lives to the core.

The Lost Son

2026

2010s · 26 titles

Goltzius & the Pelican Company poster
6.1

Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of illustrating the Old Testament’s biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Deliah and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatisations of these erotic stories for his court.

Goltzius & the Pelican Company

2012

Iris poster
NR

Iris is ingenious neo-noir comedy set in Croatia 90, in the gloomy post-war era dominated by tycoons, corruption and war profiteers.

Iris

2012

My Son Only Walks a Little Slower poster
NR

At the center of this family comedy are a mother and son, but also a whole range of intricate family relationships that intertwine during the celebration of Branko's twenty-fifth birthday. An overly caring mother who focuses on her son, a demented grandmother, a crazy aunt and her confused husband... are just some of the protagonists of this play.

My Son Only Walks a Little Slower

2013

The Priest's Children poster
6.5

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.

The Priest's Children

2013

The Voice poster
NR

Upon arriving at a Catholic boarding school, the boy feels an antipathy to the religious practices the school imposes. However, students and teachers find the boy rather strange and harass him.

The Voice

2019

All Inclusive poster
4.7

A trip to Croatia to celebrate Inger's 60th birthday. The whole thing sounded like a great idea until Inger caught her husband having an affair. When the plane takes off for Split the depressed Inger and her two daughters, much too sensible Malin (35) and chaotic Tove (32) are on board. Tove has to struggle to be included in Inger and Malin's circle, the sister's rivalry over their mother is so strong it quickly escalates into a competition of who can comfort Inger the best.

All Inclusive

2017

The Wait poster
NR

Set during post-war Yugoslavia, The Wait is a coming of age story about a 7-year-old girl who discovers a world of deception and extortion involving her father and the men who wish to hurt him. Based on a true story.

The Wait

2019

These Are the Rules poster
5.2

After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.

These Are the Rules

2014

All the Best poster
2.6

A disillusioned opera star, a lonely pastry chef, and a divorced Don Juan with an amorous history offstage make for choice ingredients in this poignant romantic tale spiced with Christmas cookies, borscht, and an alarming quantity of deadly insecticide. Director Tribuson demonstrates a deft talent for juggling comic romantic disasters from a woman’s point of view as her characters negotiate the bamboozling ways of love. Middle-aged Verica (acclaimed actress Marinković) pours her heart into her café’s pastries, but she can’t seem to find a like-minded lover until a duplicitous handyman with pheromones to spare and an eye for the ladies sets off a chain of unforeseen adventures all tied together by one fateful plate of tasty treats.

All the Best

2016

What a Country! poster
5.9

A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.

What a Country!

2018

Agape poster
6.5

Miran is an unconventional priest who prepares children for the ceremony of confirmation. One of them is Goran, an orphaned teenage boy who enjoys Miran's attention. One day, a new boy moves into the neighborhood, and immediately becomes Miran's new pet student. Goran gets jealous and admits being in a sexual relationship with the priest, which sets in motion a series of unfortunate events.

Agape

2017

We Will Be the World Champions poster
3.6

The 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.

We Will Be the World Champions

2015

Goran poster
5.2

Goran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have their own agendas and dreams which threaten his carefree existence. In the idyllic surroundings of snow-covered Gorski Kotar, the fiery personalities of the highlanders surface and collide.

Goran

2016

Ungiven poster
NR

Determined to move on with their life violently interrupted by war several years ago, an elderly couple returns to their restored home. We follow their everyday life through the four seasons. Every day She becomes more absent and lost. Instead of helping her, He acts brutishly, sometimes even cruelly, towards his wife. However, the realization that something is wrong with Her will make Him question his behavior and values.

Ungiven

2015

The Show Must Go On poster
6.0

During a reality show a war starts, but the producer will do anything to hide it from the contestants.

The Show Must Go On

2010

Hands poster
4.0

When his boyfriend suddenly leaves him without an explanation, Michel develops a fear of emotional attachment. He starts meeting other people, but every new pair of hands remind him of his ex.

Hands

2014

Number 55 poster
6.6

In the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst stationed in that house they would get attacked by rebel Serbs, Serbian Special Forces and the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army, also reffered to as Yugoslavian National Army). Their resistance to the attackers would last 24 hours whilst their fellow combatants would attempt to try and get them out of there. The movie and story is based on true events which happened during the Croatian War of Independence.

Number 55

2014

The Enchanting Porkers poster
5.0

The movie "Swineherds" is a satirical anti-musical which deals with the phenomena of the media sensationalism that trivializes even the most serious and the most painful subjects. The movie depicts the phenomenon of media manipulation, mass hysteria, thirst for fame and people that will, more than ever, do whatever it takes to keep their fifteen minutes of fame.

The Enchanting Porkers

2015

The Boys from Marx and Engels Street poster
4.4

Stanko (30) has to kill a man, for the first time. The same day, his younger brother Vojo (16) has to have sex for the first time. Roads of the two brothers will cross the same day several times, in an unusual way

The Boys from Marx and Engels Street

2014

I Can Barely Remember the Day poster
NR

Zoe, Goran’s youngest child, is celebrating her tenth birthday. While children, friends, and closest family members are gathering and the party is kicking off, Goran receives a phone call with news that could darken this happy and eagerly awaited celebration.

I Can Barely Remember the Day

2018

Sonja and the Bull poster
5.0

Sonja, a city girl from Zagreb, a vegetarian and a hardcore animal-rights activist, strongly opposes bullfighting in Dalmatinska zagora (Dalmatian Hinterland). People find this irritating and they conclude that no matter how passionately Sonja loves animals, she would never dare to stand in front of a bull. Bets are raised and Sonja faces a challenge in the form of Ante, known far and wide for his powers of persuasion.

Sonja and the Bull

2012

Some Other Stories poster
6.4

The film is a high-concept project with five stories exploring the themes of motherhood and pregnancy, directed by women filmmakers from five former Yugoslav republics. “Croatian Story” follows an anguished painter who must decide whether or not to keep one of her unborn twins, diagnosed with Down syndrome. “Serbian Story” finds an expectant mother in the same emergency room with a charming killer. “Bosnia-Herzegovina Story” centers on a financially strapped Sarajevo family whose son?s lover is pregnant. “Macedonian Story” unfolds in a clinic where a drug addict struggles to keep her baby, and “Slovenian Story” ends the omnibus on a humorous note with a nun who finds her own way to immaculate conception.

Some Other Stories

2010

Handymen poster
5.0

Keka is a virtuoso housewife who suffers because of the lethargy of her marriage with Baja, a concerned railway worker. To make things even worse, Keka is being seriously courted by Ilija, a handyman who is so clumsy that he produces apocalypse wherever he shows up. After Baja finally becomes aware of Ilija's intentions and after the two of them demolish Keka's home as a result of their clumsy showdowns, Keka decides to leave both of them and to go on a trip to the only place where she felt some happiness - to a small coastal village where she and Baja went on their honeymoon... However, things start to complicate because Keka falls under the scrutiny of Lujo, an untypical lonely fisherman-flirter. Baja and Ilija decide to go on a trip, to embark on the biggest adventure in their lives and to prove their love to Keka...

Handymen

2013

I Act, I Am poster
NR

While researching or playing a role, an actor decides to quit acting and live the life of their character instead.

I Act, I Am

2018

Transmania poster
NR

One film made by 15 directors, Each one, after seeing the last minute of the previous one.

Transmania

2016

Many Happy Returns poster
NR

A thief beginner, his dangerous accomplice and one poorly chosen victim - this will be a wonderful day for everyone.

Many Happy Returns

2019

2000s · 3 titles

Undated · 5 titles

Series credits

Fargo poster
8.3

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Fargo

2014

Shadows over the Balkans poster
7.8

A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

Shadows over the Balkans

2017

Morning Changes Everything poster
6.3

Lack of money, inability to find a permanent job, living with parents or roommates, unsettled love relationships — this is how the life of most young people in Serbia could be described. Through the four friends' struggle with the life challenges, the series also tries to evoke the spirit of Belgrade today: it talks about those who live in it, those who leave it, but also those who return to it.

Morning Changes Everything

2018

The Last Panthers poster
5.8

The six-part series opens with a daring diamond heist before quickly delving into the dark heart of Europe where a shadowy alliance of gangsters and 'banksters' now rules. Naomi is the British loss adjustor charged with recovering the stolen diamonds whatever the cost. Also in pursuit is French-Algerian policeman Khalil.

The Last Panthers

2015

The Silence poster
6.8

Dramatic events unfold in Croatia and Ukraine. The first girl drowned, the second one died from a drug overdose. The main suspect in these deaths, however, soon turns out to be innocent - and dead too. While detective Vladimir and reporter Stribor struggle to solve these murders in Croatia, the niece of Olga, an Ukrainian philanthropist, goes missing in Kyiv.

The Silence

2021

Underneath poster
5.8

Facing his own past, an investigator unravels the mystery behind three cruel, ritualistic murders.

Underneath

2020

Success poster
6.6

Follow the intertwining stories of four strangers who are bound together by a violent event.

Success

2019

Time of Evil poster
3.7

Bogdan Dragović has returned from emigration, trying, for the sake of his son Vladimir, to re-establish ties with the Communist Party from which he was expelled as a Trotskyist.

Time of Evil

2021

The World Champions poster
1.0

A story about four pioneers who fathered the “Yugoslav school of basketball” and whose merit is the development of this sport in Europe. They are Nebojša Popović, Borisav Stanković, Radomir Šaper and Aleksandar Nikolić. The central event is the crucial game at World Cup 1970 between Yugoslavia and the United States. From the point of view of the main character, Nebojša Popović, we follow the growth and life path of enthusiasts, whose professional work, ideas, and efforts made their major dream come true, the first gold medal for Yugoslavia in world championships.

The World Champions

2016

The Last Socialist Artefact poster
7.2

A businessman and an engineer arrive in a small town to restore an abandoned factory and manufacture a discontinued turbine for a mysterious client.

The Last Socialist Artefact

2021

Guardian of the Castle poster
8.0

Croatia in the 1980-s: in terms of politics, things are happening that will change the map of the Europe by the end of the century. The National Security Service (UDBA) is still one of the most active and most effective intelligent communities in Europe. Boris Biscan, UDBA's old employee, is a witness to all the changes going about - the professionals are replaced by the criminals from UDBA, who are willing to deal with political emigrants, offering them political protection in return for their services. Boris is lost in this new world, and the old one has obviously come to its end.

Guardian of the Castle

2017

White Road poster
8.0

After the high-profile arrest of drug cartel member Željko Matić-Željac, the police are investigating the murder of Gabriela Ochoa from Mexico, who was wrongly declared dead seven years ago, and its connection with the recent murder of the police chief, as they suspect that Matić is continuing his criminal activities from prison.

White Road

2024