
Known for
7.4The adventures of a numerous family Vragec, who live in a suburban settlement "Naselak" in Croatia's capital Zagreb.
Smoggies
1982
7.3With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.
Journey to Vucjak
1986
NRDuring WW2, a young student of medicine comes to the big city to discover the secret of death, and stays at a motel that turns out to be a brothel. He is asked from Ustasha officer to perform experiments of resurrecting the dead, while the Fascist authorities look for a female communist hiding in the city.
Devil's Due
1979
NRIn 1878, during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the commander of the gendarmerie station in Sokolac was given the task of suppressing the Hajduk movement in that area. The commander asks the arrested and wounded hajduk leader to hand over his comrades.
Thirst
1969
NRThe series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.
Traps
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8.0A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
Cat Under a Helmet
1978
Film credits
1990s · 10 titles
Based on Krleza’s essay written in 1935 which warned about the rise of fascism and Nazism in pre-WWII Europe.
Grunts of Intellectual Sows of Europe Today
1993
7.5Two friends, Fabijan and Dakar, each with their own murky past, decide to go on a fishing trip. However, a lazy spring afternoon becomes a fight for survival after they're attacked by group of mysterious strangers.
The Time of Warriors
1991
NROn the eve of the war, a former army officer Pavle is torn between the reality that forces him to decide and choose a side, and his own life dilemmas. He becomes increasingly preoccupied with morbid thoughts which leads his life to a tragic epilogue.
Lead Communion
1995
9.0Vojvodina, 1991. A Croatian civilian POW named Ivan manages to escape a Serbian prison camp. Finding nowhere else to go, he spends the night on a seemingly wealthy plot of land. The next morning, he's discovered by its owner, a Serb named Stevan, who offers him two choices. Either Ivan stays and does Stevan's dirty work, or he surrenders him to Serbian paramilitary authorities. During his stay he meets Ana, Stevan's daughter-in-law, whose trapped in a loveless marriage with his violent son Dušan, whose currently situated on the frontlines somewhere in Croatia. Finding company in each other's sorrow, the two Croats slowly begin to fall in love.
The Price of Life
1994
10.0A 1996 Croatian language drama film directed by Eduard Galić, starring Vlasta Knezović, Ivo Gregurevic and Edo Perocevic.
A Shokac Woman
1996
10.0The usual atmosphere of a standard literary evening turns into a harsh drama of the conscience of the protagonist who took part in the betrayal and liquidation of his father in the World War II, which ended not so long ago.
A Confession You Didn't Deserve
1999
9.0After a brother and sister learn that their parents are getting divorced, they decide to take a road trip to stop them.
Grandpa and Grandma Are Getting Divorced
1997
8.0During the Croatian War of Independance, Ana's home was raided, her family killed and she herself raped by a Serbian soldier named Mihajlo. Years have gone by, Ana had moved to Zagreb, found a boyfriend and managed to atleast partially get over her trauma. However, when she recognizes Mihajlo from the dozens of patrons in a bar, her painful memories flood right back. She tries to turn to bother her boyfriend and the police for help, but, when neither of them believe her, she's forced to take the situation into her own hands.
Recognition
1996
6.3The seemingly pleasant life of Marija and her son Darko is broken when their village is attacked by the Serbian chetniks, forcing them to evacuate and look for new living and employment opportunites in the nearby city, with the former taking a job in the washroom of the local hospital and the latter, against his mother's wishes, deciding to join the Croatian Army. A few weeks later, Marija recieves the news of her son's passing and decides to head into no man's land to retrieve his remains and bury them in the village they both grew up in.
The Time For...
1993
7.2Ivan, a young Croatian autonomist whose brother left the country due to political persecution, falls in love with Marina, the duaghter of a staunch communist police chief. Their forbidden whirlwind romance takes place against the backdrop of early 1980s Zagreb's everchanging sociopolitical background following the death of Yugoslavia's president Josip Broz Tito.
A Croatian Story
1991
1980s · 12 titles
4.7Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.
Visitors from the Galaxy
1981
5.6During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
The Secret of an Old Attic
1984
6.2Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
1980
NRSummer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.
Open Space
1985
7.0TV movie about the life of a middle-aged Zagreb spinster in whose life quietly crept the man to whom she rented a room. Problems start when she realizes that her lodger does very strange and even bizarre job that police will not miss.
Leo and Brigita
1989
7.0It’s the winter of 1942. A freight train on the section of the Slavonian railway Vinkovci-Nova Gradiska is under a special Gestapo escort. Fleeing misfortune and evil brought by war, the last wagon is the place of encounter of politicians, war smugglers, deserters and tamburitza players.
The Tamburitza Players
1982
7.8Deals with the father-son conflict in a farming family. The two never see eye to eye especially over the way the farm is run. The boy opts for a different way of life and also falls in love with a dumb girl to the horror of his family.
I Want to Live
1982
5.0Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.
The Falcon
1983
6.4Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.
You Love Only Once
1981
The story follows two journalists from Zagreb who go to a Pannonian town to report on wild radio stations. There they discover an unusual radio station that broadcasts news that is not usually released to the public. As they are collecting information about it, they get drawn into local affairs more than they hoped and wanted.
Ether
1985
7.0Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.
Promised Land
1986
5.8It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.
Horvat's Choice
1985
1970s · 17 titles
6.2Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Since they are too weak to stand against him, they pick the strongest among themselves and feed him with parts of their rations.
The Fed One
1970
NRAn absurd combination of circumstances turns two idle young men into fugitives from the law.
Friends
1972
7.4Communist party commissar Ivica is sent to the lowland village to monitor the local partisan squad. Despite their disagreements he befriends their leader Dikan and they plan to evacuate the chief headquarters. Dikan also sees the opportunity to have his personal revenge on an enemy officer, responsible for death of one of his men.
The Pine Tree in the Mountain
1971
NRThrough Šimun’s conflict with the head of the new agricultural cooperative, where he is forced to work in order to feed his family, the changes that land reclamation has brought to everyday life in the Neretva Valley are depicted, destroying the traditional way of life.
The Hunt
1974
5.8The Spanish Civil War veteran and WW2 partisan Josip Crnković-Cloud faces eviction from his modest little house which is to be demolished soon to make space for new skyscraper. He tries to stop it in a legal way, but fails to break the shield of administrative bureaucreacy. He decides to use dynamite left from the war and simply blow out the house.
The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud
1978
9.0The action takes place in a village where police investigates a murder committed because of an accordion.
The Accordion
1972
8.0The plot of the drama begins with the murder of an officer of the occupying forces. The town’s commander issues a strange order: let the locals choose a victim for revenge. This is how the righteous judge Blaz gets to the center of the action.
The Righteous One
1974
3.4The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'
Ann and Eve
1970
6.3A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film's story is based on a book by the Soviet writer Alexander Grin.
The Rat Savior
1976
5.7At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population.
The Macedonian Part of Hell
1971
7.8The film follows a young boy named Ranko who discovers a large German Shepherd in the mountains, a remnant of the recent war. After freeing the dog from a trap, Ranko befriends the animal and, based on an inscription on its collar, names him Hund. However, the local villagers mistake the dog for a dangerous wolf, a "lone wolf," and resolve to kill it. Fearing for his new companion's safety, Ranko secretly brings food to Hund in the mountains. In a turn of events, the dog saves Ranko from a real wolf attack. The villagers, convinced that this "lone wolf" is responsible for killing sheep, organize a hunt. In a climactic moment, Ranko manages to save his loyal friend from the hunting party, solidifying their bond.
Lone Wolf
1972
6.3Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant threat of Turk raids and being taxed to death in order to provide defence against the Turks. But, the worst things were arrogant local feudal lords led by Franjo Tahi who were oppresing the common folk. All that led to the great peasant revolt of 1573. The movie is made for the 400th anniversary of the event.
Anno Domini 1573
1975
6.6A story about a couple whose problems start when she takes a job as a teacher in order to financially support his education.
To Live on Love
1973
6.7Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Višnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
Handcuffs
1970
7.8The manager of an export-import company meets a young girl who claims that her parents have been taken their house away after WW2. After finding out this to be true, he offers to marry her which she accepts. However, it turns out that the house needs thorough restoration. Since his salary is not enough to cover its massive expenses, he puts his honesty on test.
The House
1975
7.9One 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.
Train in the Snow
1976
NRIn this intriguing, bittersweet picture of the factory atmosphere from the era of socialist self-management, we follow the story of the factory porter Djuro who, unlike his colleagues, has been unable to get an apartment within “social ownership” for years.
The Loner
1976
1960s · 4 titles
NRIn 1878, during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the commander of the gendarmerie station in Sokolac was given the task of suppressing the Hajduk movement in that area. The commander asks the arrested and wounded hajduk leader to hand over his comrades.
Thirst
1969
7.0Dalmatia in the 1930s. Mate Pivac, a policeman and father of eight, finds out that the King himself becomes godfather to every ninth children in the country, and tries to make his wife sure that they need another child hoping for financial or any other kind of support. Eventually in the town arrives a circus troop, whose main star looks identically to Our Lady of the Angel. The attractive lady arouses male fantasies, so local women ask from Mate to make her leave the town by force. The trouble is that Mate himself is not immune to her beauty.
Love and Sometimes a Curse
1969
6.7A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.
An Event
1969
6.9Two 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.
Accidental Life
1969
Series credits
7.4The adventures of a numerous family Vragec, who live in a suburban settlement "Naselak" in Croatia's capital Zagreb.
Smoggies
1982
7.3With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.
Journey to Vucjak
1986
NRDuring WW2, a young student of medicine comes to the big city to discover the secret of death, and stays at a motel that turns out to be a brothel. He is asked from Ustasha officer to perform experiments of resurrecting the dead, while the Fascist authorities look for a female communist hiding in the city.
Devil's Due
1979
NRThe series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.
Traps
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8.0A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
Cat Under a Helmet
1978
8.5Based on the Ante Kovačić's novel "U registraturi" (In the Registrar's Office, 1888.) Tells the story of Ivica Kicmanovic – from his childhood to his eventual downfall caused by a femme fatale Laura. 9 episodes in total.
In the Registrar's Office
1974
9.0Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.
The Foreigner
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