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Top 59 films from Croatia (out of 59 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Play Me a Love Song | 2,007 | Goran Kulenović | Drama, Comedy | 8.3 | 13 | Croatian | The main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band called When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally. Struja would do anything to gather money to record the album as long as it doesn't involve giving up his rock musician beliefs. However, playing pop songs at weddings seems to be the only way out, and the rest of the bend - Struja's best friend and keyboard player Mario (Ivan Duricic), Deni, a handsome singer and bass player (Ivan Glowatzky) and Zlajfa, an indifferent drummer (Hrvoje Keckes) - are trying to persuade Struja to make a compromise. At the beginning he is very firm and reluctant to give in, but when Anja, the girl he left, announces that she is pregnant with his baby, Struja suddenly realizes that there are bigger issues in life than playing at wedding. |
| Mary | 2,017 | Juraj Primorac | Drama | 8.1 | 65 | Croatian | Marinko, an assistant worker in the tow-away service has had visions of Virgin Mary. He does not know what to do with her. |
| Halima's Path | 2,012 | Arsen Anton Ostojić | Drama | 8 | 16 | BS | In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him. |
| The Master Butcher | 2,019 | Uli Edel | Drama, TV Movie | 7.9 | 15 | German | After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club. |
| The Diary of Diana B. | 2,019 | Dana Budisavljević | Drama, History, War | 7.7 | 12 | Croatian | Firmly believing her own life is no more precious than the lives of the innocent people being persecuted, with the help of a few friends, Diana embarks on a perilous campaign of rescuing more than 10,000 children from the Ustasha camps in Nazi-occupied Croatia. |
| Marshal Tito's Spirit | 1,999 | Vinko Brešan | Comedy | 7.6 | 15 | Croatian | Stipan is a policeman who comes to small Adriatic island off the Croatian coast in order to investigate reported strange phenomena that had frightened the whole population. At first, nobody wants to co-operate with him, but he finally finds that the island is being allegedly haunted by the ghost of Josip Broz Tito, Communist leader of former Yugoslavia. For Luka, the mayor, this is the opportunity to turn entire island into Tito-themed amusement park. Tito's WW2 veterans, on the other hand, don't believe in ghosts; for them, the apparition is actually Tito himself, who had returned in order to lead them into a new revolution which would restore Communism. Written by Anonymous |
| A Wonderful Night in Split | 2,004 | Arsen Anton Ostojić | Drama, Music | 7.4 | 13 | Croatian | The film is set over the course of a New Year's Eve night in the Croatian port city of Split, where it follows three parallel plots. The first plot line features a small-time drug dealer Nike (Marinko Prga) and a young widow Marija (Nives Ivankovic); the second plot line deals with a drug addict called Maja (Marija Skaricic) who decides to have sex with an US Navy sailor called Franky (Coolio) in exchange for some heroin; the third one shows a young couple, Luka and Andela (Vicko Bilandzic and Ivana Roscic) who spend the night desperately looking for a place to celebrate the New Year by having their first sexual experience. The plots are connected through Dino Dvornik's concert, where all of them pass through at some point, and through the omnipresent fireworks that dot the night sky over the course of the film. |
| M | 2,023 | Vardan Tozija | Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure, Horror | 7.2 | 70 | MK | Deep in a secluded forest, Marko lives in isolation under the watchful eye of his overprotective father, who is determined to keep his young son safe from the Evil Ones. Deeply lonely, and increasingly curious about the outside world, Marko yearns to uncover the secrets of life beyond the forest and begins venturing further from home. But after a cruel turn of events grants his wish sooner than he ever imagined, Marko is forced to flee and embark on a grim journey filled with unknown dangers and a glimpse into a world forever changed. |
| Cricket & Antoinette | 2,023 | Luka Rukavina | Animation, Adventure, Family, Romance | 7.2 | 17 | Croatian | Two main characters, Cricket and Antoinette, represent two separate worlds, the world of noise, chaos and creativity on the one side, and the world of work, order and discipline on the other. As they fall in love, in spite of obvious differences, they manage to create harmony. |
| Comic Sans | 2,018 | Nevio Marasović | Family, Comedy, Drama | 7.2 | 11 | Croatian | A young and successful copywriter Alan Despot, after trying in vain to renew a broken relationship with his girlfriend, goes to the island of Vis and finds himself torn between his eccentric father, another ex-girlfriend and her fiancé. New situations and circumstances help Alan to view his own life from a new perspective. |
| Metastases | 2,009 | Branko Schmidt | Crime, Drama | 7.1 | 26 | Croatian | Eliciting images of cancer, this drama explores the illnesses that plague modern Croatia. Four young junkies in Zagreb maturing in the wake of war reflect the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight. |
| The High Sun | 2,015 | Dalibor Matanić | Drama | 7 | 61 | Croatian | Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers – and the enduring strength – of forbidden love. |
| In Praise of Nothing | 2,019 | Boris Mitić | Documentary | 7 | 12 | Serbian | A feelgood documentary about Nothing, in which Nothing, tired of being misunderstood, tries to defend its cause. Filmed worldwide by 100+ complementary DoPs, scored by cabaret grandmasters Pascal Comelade & The Tiger Lillies, narrated - in simple childish verse - by Iggy Pop. |
| Armin | 2,007 | Ognjen Sviličić | Drama | 7 | 12 | Croatian | The film follows Ibro (Emir Hadžihafizbegović) and his son Armin (Armin Omerović), who travel from a small town in Bosnia to a film audition in Zagreb, hoping to land a part for Armin in a German film about the war in Bosnia. On their way to fulfilling the boy's dream, they encounter a series of disappointing setbacks — their bus to Zagreb breaks down and they are late for the audition. After Ibro convinces the director to give the boy a second chance, they soon realize that Armin is too old for the part anyway. As it becomes obvious that Armin's dream of playing a part in the movie will never happen, he feels increasingly disheartened, while Ibro's determination to help his son grows. Finally they do get another chance, but Armin buckles under the pressure and experiences an epileptic seizure. As they get ready to head back to Bosnia, the film crew makes an unexpected offer, but when Ibro refuses, Armin at last realizes how much his father really loves him. |
| Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves | 2,019 | Draško Ivezić | Animation | 7 | 11 | ET | In this decidedly cheeky and deliriously fun animation, a decent, hard-working wolf must rely on his physical gifts in order to make ends meet for the sake of his family. |
| Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World | 2,023 | Radu Jude | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 | 109 | Romanian | On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video. |
| ZG80 | 2,016 | Igor Šeregi | Action, Comedy | 6.9 | 21 | Croatian | ZG80 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. |
| Burning Days | 2,022 | Emin Alper | Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 124 | Turkish | With the mayoral election approaching, the newly-appointed state prosecutor of a small town suffering from a water supply crisis gradually descends into trouble after a young local woman is raped. |
| Number 55 | 2,014 | Kristijan Milić | War, Action, History | 6.8 | 12 | Croatian | 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. |
| When the Light Breaks | 2,024 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama | 6.7 | 31 | IS | When the light breaks on a long summer's day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty. |
| The Parade | 2,011 | Srđan Dragojević | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 112 | Serbian | The 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. |
| Fury of the Demon | 2,016 | Fabien Delage | Horror, Mystery, Fantasy | 6.6 | 15 | French | An investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it. |
| Little Trouble Girls | 2,025 | Urška Djukić | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 12 | SL | 16-year-old Lucia joins the Catholic school choir where she befriends senior Ana-Maria. During a choir retreat Lucia's attraction to a restoration worker creates tension with Ana-Maria and challenges her faith. |
| The Priest's Children | 2,013 | Vinko Brešan | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 70 | Croatian | 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. |
| Witnesses | 2,003 | Vinko Brešan | Drama, War | 6.5 | 10 | Croatian | Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanovic) standing beside her husband's coffin, Witnesses interweaves the stories of a small town confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities. |
| Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | 2,021 | Radu Jude | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 | 253 | Romanian | Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. |
| On the Path | 2,010 | Jasmila Žbanić | Drama | 6.4 | 22 | BS | Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in... |
| Cannibal Vegetarian | 2,012 | Branko Schmidt | Drama, Thriller | 6.4 | 17 | Croatian | Danko Babic is an ambitious and amoral gynaecologist at Croatia's leading fertility clinic. When his colleague Bantic is appointed as head of the clinic, Babic starts a secret war to overthrow his rival. Distracted by his ruthless campaign he makes series of fatal mistakes that result in the death of a patient. A crooked coroner and a corrupt police officer cover up his misdeeds, while Babic grows increasingly dependant on drugs and alcohol. He begins performing illegal abortions on prostitutes who work for Jedinko, a gangster who controls the local drug and sex trade. |
| Seventy-Two Days | 2,010 | Danilo Šerbedžija | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 10 | Croatian | A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes up with a cunning plan. |
| The Load | 2,019 | Ognjen Glavonić | Drama | 6.2 | 30 | Serbian | Vlada 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. |
| How the War Started on My Island | 1,997 | Vinko Brešan | Comedy, War | 6.2 | 20 | Croatian | At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island. |
| Drazen | 2,024 | Danilo Šerbedžija | Drama | 6.2 | 13 | Croatian | This biopic follows basketball legend Dražen Petrović's life, from his early years in Croatia to his rise to NBA stardom and career cut short by tragedy. |
| The Match | 2,021 | Dominik Sedlar | Drama, History, War | 6.1 | 57 | English | Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens. |
| Tiny Tim: King for a Day | 2,020 | Johan von Sydow | Animation, Documentary, Music | 6.1 | 12 | English | The story of Tiny Tim’s improbable rise to stardom is the ultimate fairytale - and so is that of his downfall. For a brief time, the shy and truly unusual outsider artist was the biggest star in the world. |
| It Will Not End | 2,008 | Vinko Brešan | War, Drama, Comedy | 6.1 | 10 | Croatian | Djuro is a Romany, he has a large, happy family, and earns a living appearing in Serbian porn films. And it's through his sarcastic perspective that we follow the story of the Croatian war veteran Martin. He falls in love with a beautiful girl who plays Little Red Riding Hood in a porn version of the fairy tale. She is also a prostitute. To be with her, Martin has to buy her from her pimp. A tragicomic story of love in a world where it seems all human values are put up for sale or destined for cynical destruction |
| Sixth Bus | 2,022 | Eduard Galić | War, Drama | 6 | 13 | Croatian | A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, elusive, and even feared. A quest for faith, connection, and redemption simmers beneath the search. |
| Quit Staring at My Plate | 2,016 | Hana Jušić | Drama | 5.9 | 21 | Croatian | Marijana's life revolves around her family, whether she likes it or not. They live on top of one another in a tiny apartment, driving one another crazy. Then her controlling father has a stroke and is left completely bedridden, and Marijana takes his place as head of the clan. Soon, she is working two jobs to keep everything afloat, while her mother and disabled brother do their best to scupper the ship. Driven to the edge, Marijana finds comfort in seedy sex with random strangers; and this taste of freedom leaves her wanting more. But now that she has finally found freedom, what's she meant to do with it? |
| Deer Boy | 2,017 | Katarzyna Gondek | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 5.9 | 10 | Polish | A story about a hunter's son, who was born with antlers, and about how each man kills the thing he loves. |
| Safe Place | 2,023 | Juraj Lerotić | Drama, Thriller | 5.8 | 13 | Croatian | A traumatic event – a sudden suicide attempt – opens a gap in the everyday life of a family of three. Their lives change fundamentally, as if they've been pulled into a war invisible to everyone else. The plot is limited to the most acute, a short period of time and a situation that boils down to the most important thing – to save a loved one. The film was based on the personal experience of the director, who also plays the leading role. |
| The Living and the Dead | 2,007 | Kristijan Milić | Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery, War | 5.7 | 18 | Croatian | In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate. |
| Hedgehog's Home | 2,017 | Eva Cvijanović | Animation | 5.6 | 10 | Croatian | In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys and mystifies a quartet of insatiable beasts: a cunning fox, an angry wolf, a gluttonous bear and a muddy boar. Together, the haughty brutes march off towards Hedgehog’s home to see just what is so precious about this “castle, shiny and huge.” What they find amazes them and sparks a tense and prickly standoff. |
| Playing Men | 2,017 | Matjaž Ivanišin | Documentary | 5.5 | 12 | English | A documentary essay about the relationships among Mediterranean men and their games. The film takes the form of a travelogue across Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Turkey, and examines men, young and old, who come together like their ancestors did – to play games. During filming, however, the director suddenly faces a serious creative crisis and turns the camera on himself, turning the film into a playful homage to absurdity. |
| Third Kind | 2,018 | Yorgos Zois | Science Fiction | 5.4 | 10 | English | Earth has been abandoned for a long time and humanity has found refuge in outer space. Three archaeologists return to Earth to investigate the origin of a mysterious five tone signal… |
| Fine Dead Girls | 2,002 | Dalibor Matanić | Thriller, Drama | 5.3 | 28 | Croatian | Iva and Marija, a young lesbian couple, rent an apartment in Zagreb, in a building that seems to provide a quiet and safe environment for their love, but over time the atmosphere in the building becomes more and more threatening. The elder landlady Olga dominates the building. Other tenants include her calm husband, her grown-up son Daniel who has a crush on Iva, the prostitute Lidija, an abused housewife, a widower keeping the corpse of his newly deceased wife, a gynecologist performing abortions in one flat of the house, and an ex-soldier who regularly plays martial music at night. After Olga finds out that Iva and Marija are lesbians, the situation escalates . |
| Lapitch the Little Shoemaker | 1,997 | Milan Blažeković | Animation | 5.3 | 16 | Croatian | Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure. |
| The Last Serb in Croatia | 2,019 | Predrag Ličina | Comedy, Adventure, Horror | 5.2 | 20 | Croatian | Croatia, seven years after bankruptcy. There is a fight going on in the world - water has become more precious than oil. In order to get hold of it, the powerful are ready to start wars, conquer, destroy, and even plant a zombie-virus. Mico, a bon viveur from Zagreb, whose daily routine includes massage parlours, restaurants and cinemas, where he watches a movie series featuring his favorite actress Franka Anic, is caught completely off guard by the zombie-epidemics. Nevertheless, he boldly embarks on an Odyssey accompanied by his movie heroine, with one highly unattainable, goal: to survive. |
| Mare | 2,020 | Andrea Štaka | Drama | 5.2 | 17 | Croatian | Routinely, but with dedication, Mare runs her small family’s modest household, even though a new washing machine is not the only thing that is missing. When a chance encounter rekindles her libido, she does not hold back for long. |
| Aleksi | 2,018 | Barbara Vekarić | Drama | 5.2 | 13 | Croatian | 28-year-old Aleksi is stuck living with her parents. Desperate to escape the safe but boring bourgeois life her family has intended for her, she shirks her duties and becomes entangled with various romantic interests. |
| Goran | 2,016 | Nevio Marasović | Drama, Thriller | 5.2 | 11 | Croatian | 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. |
| The Guardian Angel | 2,018 | Arto Halonen | Drama, Thriller | 5.1 | 52 | English | Copenhagen, Denmark, 1951. Criminal investigator Anders Olsen follows the case of a bank robber who eyewitnesses say appears to have been acting under some kind of trance. |
| All Inclusive | 2,017 | Karin Fahlén | Comedy | 4.7 | 23 | Swedish | 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. |
| Sonja and the Bull | 2,012 | Vlatka Vorkapić | Comedy, Romance | 4.7 | 15 | Croatian | 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. |
| Full Contact | 2,015 | David Verbeek | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 4.5 | 13 | English | Full Contact is a contemporary tale of a man trying to find new purpose in life after accidentally bombing a school through a remotely operated drone plane. Ivan, operating the plane from a far away air force base, has never been to the foreign countries of his attacks, nor has he ever touched the plane he uses to kill. Modern warfare keeps him safe and disconnected from his prey. However, after this incident Ivan's disconnectedness starts to apply to everything in his life. He is overwhelmed by feelings of guilt that he is unable to process. |
| Love Island | 2,014 | Jasmila Žbanić | Romance, Comedy | 4.1 | 11 | Croatian | A pregnant French woman lives in Sarajevo with her Bosnian husband and their daughter. They vacation at a Croatian island, where things get complicated when they all become attracted to a beautiful woman. |
| The Last Will | 2,001 | Zoran Sudar | Action, Comedy, Romance | 4.1 | 10 | Croatian | After the death of a wealthy Croatian emigrant, it is discovered that he left his fortune to an unknown, illegitimate relative back in Croatia. |
| 7 seX 7 | 2,012 | Irena Škorić | Drama, Comedy | 4 | 20 | Croatian | An Croatian erotic anthology of seven short stories directed by Irena Skoric, all revolving around sex and relationships. Five of the stories following the intimacies of straight couples, where the 6th and 7th stories revolve around a lesbian couple and a gay couple. |
| Wrongful Death | 2,023 | Vjekoslav Katušin | Thriller, Mystery | 3.6 | 17 | English | Captured inside the darkness of the strange, designed room, a narcissistic journalist and a mean sinful woman learn the hard way that the truth cannot be buried forever and what begins quite harmlessly, ends in a game of life and death. |
| Likemeback | 2,019 | Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli | Drama | 3.4 | 32 | Italian | Just out of high school, Lavinia, Carla and Danila leave for a yachting holiday. Accompanied only by a skipper, the three of them sail along the Croatian coast at the start of a new stage in their lives. Full of dreams, free and laid-back, they are unaware that sharing everything on the social media is about to transform their holiday into a brutal rite of passage to adulthood in which nothing, especially their friendship, will ever be the same again. |
| Dream Warrior | 2,004 | Zachary Weintraub | Horror, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 1.7 | 11 | English | In an apocalyptic future, a man with superhuman powers goes on the run. |
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