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Bosnia and Herzegovina Cinema
Top 33 films from Bosnia and Herzegovina (out of 33 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Father | 2,020 | Srdan Golubović | Drama | 7.8 | 33 | Serbian | 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. |
| Scream for Me Sarajevo | 2,018 | Tarik Hodžić | Documentary, War | 7.8 | 17 | BS | In 1994, Sarajevo was a city under siege. Mortars and rocket propelled grenades rained onto the city, killing indiscriminately, every day. Amongst the madness, two United Nations personnel: a British military officer and another Brit working for the UN Fire Department, decided it would be fun to persuade a global rock star, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, to come and play a gig to the population. Scream for Me Sarajevo brings that story, in all its madness, to the big screen. A story of musicians who risked their lives to play a gig to people who risked their lives to live them. |
| Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | 2,011 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Drama, Crime | 7.5 | 524 | Turkish | A group of men lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's location. As the group continues looking and the night begins dragging on, its members can't help but chat with each other about everyday life, as the conversations turn more and more serious, revealing their deeper secrets and profound stories. |
| The Wild Pear Tree | 2,018 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Drama | 7.5 | 299 | Turkish | Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village and starts scraping together money to publish his book. While trying to reconnect with his old friends and environment; his uncertainty, existential struggle and his father’s gambling addiction bring him grave difficulties. |
| Days and Hours | 2,004 | Pjer Žalica | Drama | 7.5 | 11 | BS | Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car refuses to start, Fuke has to stay over in their house. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbors there. |
| J the Film | 2,018 | Gaetano Liberti | Drama | 7.3 | 16 | BS | 'J' tells the story of a man who lives an isolated life before encountering a woman that will open up, for a while, his controlled world. In 'J', time is at first an internal condition and, as the story unfolds, the effect of a mysterious mirror, where solitude is a condition of space itself and nearness and love are but a position of an impossible witness. Can space hold all the memories of a life without witnesses? |
| Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair | 2,021 | Danis Tanović | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 15 | BS | Set in Sarajevo in May 2021, the city's famous Old Town tries to recover after a difficult pandemic year. When a visitor from Zagreb comes looking for the best kebabs in town, a harmless gesture causes the disintegration of the business and private lives of several people. |
| The Perfect Circle | 1,997 | Ademir Kenović | Drama, War | 7 | 28 | BS | An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo. |
| Men Don't Cry | 2,017 | Alen Drljević | Drama | 6.9 | 11 | BS | The armed conflicts of the 1990s not only visibly destroyed the land of the former Yugoslavia, but also left the deepest wounds in the memory of each of its belligerent nations. There are as many different interpretations of that bleak past as there are countries affected. It is therefore hard to expect absolute harmony when, less than two decades since the war ended, a diverse group of veterans gathers at a remote mountain hotel for a therapy session over several days. On the contrary, such a dangerously volatile situation can suddenly ignite by just one thoughtless word, or a seemingly dirty look. That’s because the former soldiers, obstinately holding on to their fundamental masculinity and their prejudices, refusing to expose the inhumanity of the atrocities perpetrated. However, this quietness is just about to be broken and hidden emotions are to be faced. |
| Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams | 2,006 | Jasmila Žbanić | Drama, History | 6.8 | 84 | BS | A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war. |
| Malmkrog | 2,020 | Cristi Puiu | History, Drama | 6.8 | 38 | Romanian | Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent. |
| Sieranevada | 2,016 | Cristi Puiu | Drama | 6.7 | 102 | Romanian | Back from a professional trip to Paris, a neurologist at the pinnacle of his career has to pick up his wife so that they can attend a family meal to commemorate his father, who died a year before. At his mother's flat, the guests are waiting for the priest to arrive while arguing about all kinds of things connected and unconnected with the world’s events and wars. |
| My Grandpa is an Alien | 2,019 | Dražen Žarković | Adventure, Family, Science Fiction | 6.7 | 36 | Croatian | Una and an alien robot have 24 hours to find her Grandpa who was kidnapped by aliens. The extraordinary adventure leads to friendship, the rational robotic logic is replaced by emotions and Una's selfless love saves her partly alien family. |
| Interruption | 2,016 | Yorgos Zois | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 | 22 | Greek | A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite. |
| Stitches | 2,019 | Miroslav Terzić | Drama | 6.7 | 14 | Serbian | The story of a woman who firmly believes that her newborn baby was stolen from her more than 20 years ago, while she was told that her baby died. |
| Chefurs Raus! | 2,013 | Goran Vojnović | Comedy | 6.7 | 10 | SL | Marko, Adi, Aco and Dejan hag out in front of block of flats in Fuzine. Marko is pissed because he quit playing basketball and because the sexy TV presenter doesn't notice him and because his father Radovan is going to beat him up for quitting basketball. Adi is irritated by the fact that his brother Sanel is a drug addict and because his father Mirsad prefers to shang waitresses somewhere in Austira rather than to deal whit this. Makarovicka chefur girl gives a hard time to Aco and he would like to tak a revenge on Damjanovic - bus driver. Dejan is anxious because his mother Sonja wants to move to Slovenske Konjice. Policemen stop the boys one night and their world starts to disintegrate. |
| An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker | 2,013 | Danis Tanović | Drama | 6.6 | 22 | BS | Senada is 31 and she lives in Poljice neighborhood in Lukavac municipality with her partner and two daughters. She is pregnant with her third child for approximately five months. Since she didn’t have health insurance, she does not go to the doctor’s. When she started bleeding, she goes to the hospital. The doctor told Senada that she needs an emergency surgery and she needs to pay 500 EUR. Without a health insurance card and without money, Senada returns home. |
| Excursion | 2,023 | Una Gunjak | Drama | 6.6 | 13 | BS | In Sarajevo, a teenager seeking affirmation reveals that she had sex for the first time during a game of 'truth or dare' among middle schoolers. Trapped in her own lie, she fabricates a pregnancy and becomes the center of a controversy that spirals out of control. |
| Summer in the Golden Valley | 2,003 | Srđan Vuletić | Drama | 6.6 | 13 | BS | At the traditional Muslim funeral service for his father Fikret Varupa, sixteen year old boy from Sarajevo, learns that his father owes money to Hamid, a man he does not even know. The debt is considerable and Hamid does not want it to go to the grave with the body, so the debt automatically passes from the father to the son. Since in Bosnia this way of collecting debts, at a funeral, is considered to be utterly humiliating, it is never, ever applied. Fikret and his entire family become subjects of ridicule. Fikret, who is practically still a child, is decisive to "redeem his father's soul". Wishing to repay his father's debt and to secure the forgiveness, Fikret wanders into the real world of Sarajevo, the world that is ruled by post-war chaos, misery and poverty and becomes an ideal target for two corrupted policemen who wish to "help" him: they plant the kidnapped girl on him. |
| Children of Sarajevo | 2,012 | Aida Begić | Drama | 6.6 | 11 | BS | A microcosm of the fathomless suffering that remains more than 16 years since the siege of Sarajevo ended, writer-director Aida Begic’s follow-up to her 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize-winning debut Snow tells the story of two orphaned siblings struggling in a transitional society where only the fittest survive. |
| 10 Minutes | 2,002 | Ahmed Imamović | War | 6.5 | 31 | BS | 10 minutes doesn't seem long to a Japanese tourist waiting for some photos in Rome, but a lot can happen in the same 10 minutes for a family in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. |
| The Enemy | 2,011 | Dejan Zečević | Drama, War, Mystery, Horror | 6.5 | 21 | Serbian | The story begins a couple days after the war has ended. A group of Serbian soldiers in charge of clearing the fields from mines discovers a man sealed inside a factory's basement. A mysterious man says he is 'ours', he doesn't feel cold, isn't hungry and only asks for cigarettes. As soon as he is brought along, people start disappearing, and the infighting begins. Who is the mystery man? |
| The Bridges of Sarajevo | 2,014 | Teresa Villaverde | Drama, Documentary | 6.3 | 10 | French | Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins offer exceptional singular styles and visions. |
| Death in Sarajevo | 2,016 | Danis Tanović | Drama | 6.2 | 19 | BS | Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace and understanding is supposed to start from here. But the hotel staff have other worries: having not been paid for months, they are planning to go on strike. Hatidza from the hotel laundry is elected strike leader even though her daughter Lamija, who works in reception, is firmly against industrial action. Meanwhile, in the sealed-off presidential suite, a guest from France rehearses a speech. Elsewhere, a television reporter conducts interviews about war and its consequences. Was Gavrilo Princip, the 1914 assassin, a criminal or a national hero? What long shadow does his deed cast into the present? |
| Fuse | 2,003 | Pjer Žalica | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 17 | BS | Two years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit. |
| A Good Wife | 2,016 | Mirjana Karanović | Drama | 6.1 | 19 | Serbian | When 50-year-old Milena finds out about the terrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, while simultaneously learning of her own cancer diagnosis, she begins an awakening from the suburban paradise she has been living in. |
| Slovenian Girl | 2,009 | Damjan Kozole | Drama | 5.9 | 70 | SL | Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility |
| Go West | 2,005 | Ahmed Imamović | Comedy, Drama, War | 5.9 | 10 | Serbian | In the 1990s, the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a gay couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred. |
| Take Me Somewhere Nice | 2,019 | Ena Sendijarević | Drama | 5.7 | 29 | English | A teen raised in the Netherlands by her single mother travels to their native Bosnia to visit the father who left them, as he’s been admitted to a rural hospital. Joined by her cousin and his best friend, they hit the road. |
| Snow | 2,008 | Aida Begić | Drama | 5.3 | 10 | BS | The daily hardships of a war-scarred Bosnian village, where all that remains are widows and orphans, are painstakingly documented in this first feature from director Aida Begic. Snow offers insight about the psychological aftereffects of the 1992-95 civil war from a distinctively female point of view without showing any of the brutality or carnage. |
| Little Buddho | 2,014 | Danilo Bećković | Comedy | 4.9 | 16 | Serbian | A Montenegrin teenager is sent to Serbia in order to evade blood-feud caused by his father's reckless behavior. Little does he know that even greater dangers await for him. In Belgrade he will face both the avengers who went after him and this metropolis' very own nightlife and foxy ladies. And in cities like Belgrade - women and nightlife can be deadlier than a bullet. People of Montenegro are known for their specific mentality and system of values, not unlike Sicilians, Corsicans or Cretans. |
| Tolerantia | 2,008 | Ivan Ramadan | Animation | 4.9 | 10 | LA | Primitive ice age man awakes somewhere in central Bosnia and starts building a wonder. |
| Birds Like Us | 2,017 | Amela Ćuhara | Animation, Adventure, Family | 4.1 | 11 | BS | The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love. |
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