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SH-Language Films
Top 105 SH-language films from a catalog of 105, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Lone Wolf | 1,972 | Obrad Gluščević | Family, Drama | 8.1 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | The 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. |
| Train in the Snow | 1,976 | Mate Relja | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.8 | 22 | SH | Yugoslavia | One 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. |
| Balkan Spy | 1,984 | Dušan Kovačević | Drama, Comedy | 7.7 | 60 | SH | Yugoslavia | Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to an absurd and destructive chain of events. |
| Time of the Gypsies | 1,988 | Emir Kusturica | Drama, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy | 7.6 | 426 | SH | Italy | In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves. |
| The Elusive Summer of '68 | 1,984 | Goran Paskaljević | Comedy | 7.5 | 45 | SH | Yugoslavia | For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968. |
| Meeting Place | 1,989 | Goran Marković | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.5 | 27 | SH | Yugoslavia | During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead. |
| The Birch Tree | 1,967 | Ante Babaja | Drama | 7.5 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | A beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her. |
| Life Is Beautiful | 1,985 | Boro Drašković | Drama | 7.5 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, the mix of seasonal farm workers, transients, musicians, and would-be party kingpins heads toward some explosive moments. A truckload of chickens arrive to be killed and cooked for the unruly group of passengers, and when a few boorish men harass a female singer, their actions lead to unexpected violence. |
| Do You Remember Dolly Bell? | 1,981 | Emir Kusturica | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 85 | SH | Yugoslavia | A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. |
| H-8... | 1,958 | Nikola Tanhofer | Drama | 7.4 | 28 | SH | Yugoslavia | A bus traveling from Belgrade to Zagreb is involved in a tragic accident when a reckless driver causes a catastrophic collision on a rainy night, leading to the tragic deaths of several passengers. |
| When Father Was Away on Business | 1,985 | Emir Kusturica | Drama | 7.3 | 143 | SH | Yugoslavia | Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous, years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison. |
| When I Am Dead and White | 1,967 | Živojin Pavlović | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.3 | 16 | SH | Yugoslavia | The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure. |
| Handymen, Handymen | 1,980 | Goran Marković | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 13 | SH | Yugoslavia | The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night. |
| The Glembays | 1,988 | Antun Vrdoljak | Drama | 7.3 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | The Glembays of Zagreb are a rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, a rebelious son of the family patriarch, is becoming disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family. |
| Variola Vera | 1,982 | Goran Marković | Drama, History, Horror | 7.2 | 27 | SH | Yugoslavia | An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined. |
| March on the River Drina | 1,964 | Žika Mitrović | Action, Drama, War | 7.2 | 14 | SH | Yugoslavia | A Serbian artillery battery of the Combined Division makes a forced march to the Cer Mountain in western Serbia to meet Austro-Hungarian troops, who have invaded the country by crossing over the Drina River. A chronicle of the Battle of Cer; a landmark battle of World War I and the first Allied victory over the Central Powers. |
| Walter Defends Sarajevo | 1,972 | Hajrudin 'Šiba' Krvavac | Thriller, War, Action | 7 | 30 | SH | Yugoslavia | Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle. |
| Three | 1,965 | Aleksandar Petrović | War, Drama | 7 | 18 | SH | Yugoslavia | Episodic WWII drama that follows a Yugoslav man through the war as he goes from witness to victim to aggressor. |
| The Bridge | 1,969 | Hajrudin 'Šiba' Krvavac | War, Action | 6.9 | 19 | SH | Yugoslavia | In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed. |
| The Battle of Neretva | 1,969 | Veljko Bulajić | Drama, War | 6.8 | 53 | SH | Germany | In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva. |
| Strangler vs Strangler | 1,984 | Slobodan Šijan | Comedy, Thriller, Horror | 6.8 | 43 | SH | Yugoslavia | When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer. |
| Innocence Unprotected | 1,968 | Dušan Makavejev | Drama, Documentary | 6.8 | 28 | SH | Yugoslavia | A documentary about the famous athlete and movie enthusiast who made Serbia's first sound film, Innocence Unprotected. The Nazi occupation of Belgrade prevented the film from gaining wider acclaim. Director Makavejev intersperses clips of the original film with interviews of surviving cast and crew members, as well as newsreel and archival footage. |
| Don't Look Back, My Son | 1,956 | Branko Bauer | War, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | Engineer and leftist illegal Neven Novak runs away from a train in which Ustashas transport their prisoners to the prison camp Jasenovac. He returns to Zagreb and tries to save his son Zoran from an orphanage. During his stay in the orphanage, Zoran was indoctrinated with fascist ideology. When he realizes that his father is an enemy of the regime, he refuses to escape with Zoran to the Partisans' territory. Novak faces his son's antagonism and the police that chase after them. |
| Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator | 1,967 | Dušan Makavejev | Drama, Romance | 6.7 | 41 | SH | Yugoslavia | After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes. |
| The Beauty of Vice | 1,986 | Živko Nikolić | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 30 | SH | Yugoslavia | In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life. |
| The Elm Chanted Forest | 1,986 | Milan Blažeković | Animation, Fantasy | 6.7 | 26 | SH | Yugoslavia | A painter falls asleep beneath a magical elm tree and awakens with magical powers that allow him to communicate with the creatures of the forest. In the limited time that he possesses these powers, he must help save the forest from the threat of the evil Cactus King. |
| Special Education | 1,977 | Goran Marković | Drama | 6.7 | 22 | SH | Yugoslavia | Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation. |
| Let's Fall in Love | 1,987 | Aleksandar Đorđević | Music, Comedy | 6.7 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | Three kidnappers are out to get Lepa Brena, the most popular singer in Yugoslavia. Policemen are on their trail, but Lepa Brena is not helpful being on a massive Yugoslavian tour with her band "Slatki Greh", a manager and their crazy bus driver Gile. And even the band members have their own problems, many of them being horny groupies of Bale, the guy with the flute. |
| The Ninth Circle | 1,960 | France Štiglic | Drama, War | 6.7 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | In order to save a friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, from the Ustashas, the Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo. |
| Foolish Years | 1,977 | Zoran Čalić | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 14 | SH | Yugoslavia | Teenagers Marija and Boba fall in love. When Marija gets pregnant, Boba's friends come up with a plan to help the young couple out. |
| Truckers Ride Again | 1,984 | Milo Đukanović | Comedy | 6.6 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | New adventures of truck drivers Jare and Paja, long-time fellow associates and close friends. Jare is forced to pay off his debt for the loans he was raising to build a house for his numerous family. He must find heaps of money as soon as possible, or let tax gatherers to take everything. Paja tries to help him in this impossible task, but on their way they face bunch of obstacles, losses and misfortunes, encountering all sorts of people, only to end up in serious problems. |
| Reflections | 1,987 | Goran Marković | Drama, Horror | 6.5 | 25 | SH | United Kingdom | Mihajlo, an introvert piano teacher starts romance with a pretty careerist who teaches modeling at the university in Belgrade where they both work. His feelings are awakened after a long period, but this relationship makes him see the flashbacks, as well as yet unseen images that remind him of his troubled childhood - as if he experienced this already. When their university wins a contest to hold public TV performance, Mihailo fails to play the piano on the decisive night and she dumps him. The boiling point is about to come. |
| National Class Category Up to 785ccm | 1,979 | Goran Marković | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 24 | SH | Yugoslavia | One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about. |
| One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away | 1,970 | Krešimir Golik | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.5 | 18 | SH | Yugoslavia | Set in pre-World War II Zagreb, the story is seen through the eyes of 6-year-old Perica Šafranek (played by Tomislav Žganec). A dandy from Zagreb, Mr Fulir (played by Relja Bašić), starts flirting with Perica's mother during a family picnic. At first, Perica's father doesn't notice anything, but wants to marry off Perica's aunt, so he invites the man to their residence. After multiple rendezvous, Perica's father becomes aware of Fulir's attempts to seduce his wife. |
| Boško Buha | 1,978 | Branko Bauer | Drama, War | 6.5 | 14 | SH | Yugoslavia | The movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugoslav Partizans after losing their families in WW2. At first, Partizans want to get rid of them, but later they are joining combat ranks. Among them, Bosko Buha would become a legend because of his skill in destroying enemy bunkers. |
| Maternal Half-Brothers | 1,988 | Zdravko Šotra | Drama | 6.5 | 13 | SH | Yugoslavia | This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later. |
| Like Grandpa, Like Grandson | 1,983 | Zoran Čalić | Comedy | 6.5 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | Zika and Milan are fighting over who gets to spend more time with grandson Misha, who is five years old. Although Misha lives with his parents in Milan grandfather, Zika all ways of trying to learn Misa tavern life and his craft. A Milan his grandson sent to violin lessons and English. Come up with a number of interesting situations. |
| The Battle of Sutjeska | 1,973 | Stipe Delić | War | 6.4 | 24 | SH | Yugoslavia | The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska. |
| The Battle of the Eagles | 1,979 | Hajrudin 'Šiba' Krvavac | Drama, History, War | 6.4 | 15 | SH | Yugoslavia | The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts. |
| Battle of Kosovo | 1,989 | Zdravko Šotra | Drama, History, War | 6.4 | 13 | SH | Yugoslavia | In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it. |
| Kiss, Kiss, But Don't Lose Your Head | 1,981 | Zoran Čalić | Comedy | 6.4 | 13 | SH | Yugoslavia | Mary and Bob continuing his love spend the summer in the voluntary youth but their parents affect the foolish. The peak occurs when the life Zika, after a brief flirtation with Marys mother implicate two German girls Elza and Giza. |
| Kuduz | 1,989 | Ademir Kenović | Drama | 6.4 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for months. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw. |
| Piccolo | 1,959 | Dušan Vukotić | Animation | 6.4 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | Two men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neighbor awake. The neighbor buys a larger harmonica, and an arms race ensues; the instruments get larger, until it's a piano vs. a pipe organ, and then they start bringing in larger groups of friends until an entire orchestra is playing the 1812 Overture. The houses collapse from all this, atop the dueling orchestras, and on their way up to heaven, the man puts his small harmonica up for sale. |
| Leptirica | 1,973 | Đorđe Kadijević | Horror, Drama | 6.3 | 43 | SH | Yugoslavia | A young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill. |
| The Time Has Come for Love to Try | 1,980 | Zoran Čalić | Romance, Comedy | 6.3 | 16 | SH | Yugoslavia | Though the problem of Marija's pregnancy may be solved, her relationship with Boba causes a rift between the Pavlović and Todorović families. |
| Unseen Wonder | 1,984 | Živko Nikolić | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 13 | SH | Yugoslavia | The peace of a small fishing village is shattered by the coming of a young, and stunningly beautiful, wife of a local guest-worker. She intends to live in her father's house, which in the mean-time became a pub. From that moment her revenge begins, toying with to people, their passions and interests. |
| Tight Skin 3 | 1,988 | Aleksandar Đorđević | Comedy | 6.3 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day. |
| The Secret of Nikola Tesla | 1,980 | Krsto Papić | Drama | 6.2 | 30 | SH | Yugoslavia | Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day. |
| The Magician's Hat | 1,990 | Milan Blažeković | Animation | 6.2 | 20 | SH | Yugoslavia | Thistle the magician and his forest friends take on the emperor Mrazomor and his horde of ice witches. |
| Tight Skin | 1,982 | Milivoje 'Mića' Milošević | Comedy | 6.2 | 19 | SH | Yugoslavia | At 56 years of age Mita Pantic is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day. |
| The Rat Savior | 1,976 | Krsto Papić | Science Fiction, Horror, Drama | 6.2 | 17 | SH | Yugoslavia | A 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 Wall | 1,965 | Ante Zaninović | Animation, Comedy | 6.2 | 16 | SH | Yugoslavia | A wall blocks the path of two people. One man submits, while the other refuses to admit defeat. |
| The Magic Sword | 1,950 | Vojislav Nanović | Fantasy, Adventure | 6.2 | 13 | SH | Yugoslavia | Evil Bash-Chelik is terrorizing people, but only the magic sword can harm him. A young hero goes on the dangerous quest to find that sword. |
| Fisheye | 1,980 | Joško Marušić | Mystery, Animation, Horror, Drama | 6.2 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | A fishing village falls prey to a nightmare revenge from the sea. Award-winning Yugoslavian animated short film. |
| Occupation in 26 Pictures | 1,978 | Lordan Zafranović | Drama, War, Romance | 6.2 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed. |
| What Happens When Love Comes to Town | 1,984 | Zoran Čalić | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | Misa in the music school falls in love with a young Russian girl Natasha, who was then located in Belgrade. But their parents think that they are too young for love. Natasha's parents do not allow that connection, so they go back to Moscow. Unlike parents who want to end their relationship Zika and Milan are on their side. Zika begins to learn the Russian language. |
| Dream Doll | 1,979 | Bob Godfrey | Animation | 6.2 | 10 | SH | Canada | A lonely man living in a large city buys a life-size sex doll. His relationship with his dream doll causes a certain reaction in the community. A bizarre adaption of Le Ballon Rouge. |
| WR: Mysteries of the Organism | 1,971 | Dušan Makavejev | Drama, Fantasy, Comedy | 6.1 | 92 | SH | Germany | What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation. |
| Kozara | 1,962 | Veljko Bulajić | War | 6.1 | 13 | SH | Yugoslavia | In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too. |
| The Ceremony | 1,965 | Borivoj Dovniković 'Bordo' | Animation | 6.1 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | Six people are grouped in front of a wall as if for a photograph. The entire ceremony is supervised by a seventh person, who, like a photographer, looks at the group from different angles and rearranges the group by hand-signals. |
| Hell River | 1,974 | Stole Janković | War, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 | 11 | SH | Liechtenstein | Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River. |
| Satiemania | 1,978 | Zdenko Gašparović | Animation | 6 | 27 | SH | Yugoslavia | The fauna of the megalopolis, the jungle of the supermarket, the bedlam of brothels and bars, the effect of the bars in the fog, the swaying ears of corn, the swaying of men hanging from the gallows, the ripple of water – seen by the eye of the animator… |
| Man Is Not a Bird | 1,965 | Dušan Makavejev | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 6 | 22 | SH | Yugoslavia | A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship. |
| The Fall of Rock and Roll | 1,989 | Goran Gajić | Comedy | 6 | 17 | SH | Yugoslavia | Omnibus film, consisting of three independent parts: in the first story, Koma, a failed rocker, wants to prove to his producer father that newly composed music could be better than his. He becomes a mysterious masked folk singer-known as Ninja. In the second, Dracula is killed... again. This time he does not dies oby way of a wooden stake, a silver bullet, or a cross. A blonde woman manages to deprive him of eternal life without the help of sunrise. The last story is about Eve and Djuro. She is creator, he is a musician. They live in a harmonious relationship, but a love letter brings division among them. |
| Rondo | 1,966 | Zvonimir Berković | Drama | 6 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia's wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters. |
| Buffet Titanic | 1,979 | Emir Kusturica | Drama, TV Movie | 6 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself. |
| The Promising Boy | 1,981 | Miloš 'Miša' Radivojević | Drama | 5.9 | 16 | SH | Yugoslavia | A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to perform rebellious acts. |
| Super 8 Stories | 2,001 | Emir Kusturica | Music, Documentary | 5.9 | 14 | SH | Germany | A documentary about the band "No Smoking Orchestra". |
| Ward | 1,973 | Đorđe Kadijević | Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie | 5.9 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | A terrified young man is being pursued by a mysterious man in black. He hides out in a nearby mental hospital, but can he escape his fate? |
| It Rains in My Village | 1,968 | Aleksandar Petrović | Music, Drama | 5.8 | 16 | SH | France | A bizarre and tragic love story involving a pig farmer, the village fool, a teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. |
| The Rhythm of Crime | 1,981 | Zoran Tadić | Horror, Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction | 5.8 | 13 | SH | Yugoslavia | Old houses in Zagreb are destroyed in order to build new, bigger blocks. A teacher who lives in one of these houses allows a stranger to share his home with him. The stranger has a fascination with statistics, and claims he can predict crimes based on statistical analyses. When a predicted murder did not occur, the stranger is adamant that the whole town will suffer unless a balance is achieved - and he leaves. |
| The Fly | 1,967 | Aleksandar Marks | Animation | 5.8 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | A man is standing in the scene when a fly arrives and begins to irritate him. He tries to swat the fly, but it keeps growing bigger to the point where it shatters the scene. Eventually, the man and the fly decide to negotiate. |
| Siberian Lady Macbeth | 1,962 | Andrzej Wajda | Romance, Drama, Mystery | 5.7 | 15 | SH | Yugoslavia | A ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk. |
| The Maiden's Tune | 1,973 | Đorđe Kadijević | TV Movie, Horror, Mystery | 5.7 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | A man heading through the countryside is drawn to a strange castle, which is reputed by the locals to be haunted. There he meets a beguiling young woman who ensnares him in her world of secrets. |
| Tight Skin 4 | 1,991 | Milan Živković | Comedy | 5.7 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day. |
| The Igman March | 1,983 | Zdravko Šotra | Drama, War | 5.7 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II. |
| The Story of One Day | 1,941 | Maks Kalmić | Documentary | 5.6 | 17 | SH | Yugoslavia | A short film which documents a 24 hour period in the city of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. |
| The Belgrade Phantom | 2,009 | Jovan B. Todorović | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.6 | 15 | SH | Serbia | Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979; a mysterious "Phantom" occupies the attention and hearts of Belgrade. Every night, he exhibits spectacular driving maneuvers using a stolen white Porsche car through the city streets. |
| Incarnation | 2,016 | Filip Kovačević | Thriller, Action, Mystery | 5.6 | 10 | SH | Serbia | A man wakes up in a square of an unknown city again and again, after each failed attempt to escape four masked assassins. Through the never ending chase, he tries to recover his identity, and find out who set him up. |
| Atomic War Bride | 1,960 | Veljko Bulajić | Drama, Science Fiction | 5.6 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | At a church in the country, eternally optimistic John marries Maria, his Atomic War Bride, as a war starts, planes buzz overhead and bombs start dropping. Though John is "mobilized" by the military seconds after the ceremony, he and Maria seek to be reunited. |
| Balkan Express | 1,983 | Branko Baletić | Comedy, War | 5.5 | 22 | SH | Yugoslavia | In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express". |
| Without Title | 1,964 | Borivoj Dovniković 'Bordo' | Animation, Comedy | 5.5 | 15 | SH | Yugoslavia | A political satire in which an animated man with a drum is waiting for his cue. |
| I Miss Sonia Henie | 1,971 | Frederick Wiseman | Comedy, Drama | 5.4 | 21 | SH | Yugoslavia | One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971. |
| Hey Babu Riba | 1,985 | Jovan Aćin | Drama, Romance | 5.4 | 13 | SH | United Kingdom | In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy. |
| The Secret of an Old Attic | 1,984 | Vladimir Tadej | Family, Adventure, Science Fiction | 5.4 | 12 | SH | Czechoslovakia | During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic. |
| June Turmoil | 1,969 | Želimir Žilnik | Documentary | 5.4 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | The film speaks of student demonstrations in Belgrade, 1969 and of the critical quality, enthusiasm and discipline of this form of protest. It was the most powerful public criticism of "red bourgeoisie" - members of communist apparatus, who suppressed creativity and affirmation of new generations throughout Eastern block. |
| Triptych on Matter and Death | 1,960 | Živojin Pavlović | Drama | 5.4 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | A young woman, injured and alone, desperately seeks refuge in an empty house before finding an abandoned train car. Haunted by surreal visions, she repeatedly collapses. At dawn, her motionless form draws the curiosity of local children, leaving her fate uncertain. |
| Second Žika's Dynasty | 1,986 | Zoran Čalić | Comedy | 5.3 | 22 | SH | Yugoslavia | Unlike in the previous sequel of "Foolish Years"/"Zika's Dynasty" film series, Zika's and Milan's grandson became crazy for girls, having sex with them simultaneously in his apartment. Granddads are now worried for different reason, so they visit the doctor who gives them an advice to send their grandson to the country in order to use his strength appropriately. |
| Tight Skin 2 | 1,987 | Milan Živković | Comedy | 5.3 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day. |
| The Man to Kill | 1,979 | Veljko Bulajić | Fantasy, History, Drama, Horror | 5.3 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine, Satan decides that the balance between good and evil on Earth has been destabilized. In order to set things right, he sends his representative to Earth - the teacher Farfa, who bears an unusual resemblance to Peter III. His mission is to seize power from the old Duke of Montenegro, and then to take back the Russian throne as Peter III. The people of Montenegro accept Farfa as their new leader, and he proclaims himself the new Emperor, Scepan Mali, successfully resisting an invasion by the Turks. Farfa is touched by the Montenegrins' kindness and courage, falls in love with the beautiful Elfa, and fails to follow Satan's plan. Not one to be crossed, Satan sets out to kill him. |
| The Fifth One | 1,965 | Pavao Štalter | Animation | 5.2 | 13 | SH | Yugoslavia | A persistent trumpeter tries to join a string quartet that doesn't want him. |
| Passing Days | 1,969 | Nedeljko Dragić | Animation | 5.2 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | Story about a man whose environment doesn't let him live his simple life. |
| The Last Lap at Monza | 1,989 | Aleksandar Bošković | Drama | 5.2 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him. |
| A Holy Place | 1,990 | Đorđe Kadijević | Horror, Drama | 5.1 | 19 | SH | Yugoslavia | Strange love story between Toma, a reluctant theology student and Katarina, the beautiful daughter of a powerful feudal lord. After Katarina's mysterious death, Toma is, according to her wishes, forced to read the prayers over her body for three nights in a row. |
| Tup Tup | 1,972 | Nedeljko Dragić | Animation | 5.1 | 16 | SH | Italy | The quick tempo of life in polluted cities makes patients out of people. Neurosis is an everyday occurrence. |
| The Brides Are Coming | 1,978 | Emir Kusturica | Drama, TV Movie | 5.1 | 12 | SH | Yugoslavia | Jelena, a woman of character, rules an inn in an isolated place in the countryside. She lives with her two sons: Martin and Jakov. Martin has been married to Kata for 5 years, but never succeeded in having a child. Jakov sleeps with his mother in postures suggesting incest, but he is in love with Kata. Each night he hears her cries, the sexual acts with her husband inevitably finish with violence. One day, Jakov can't stand anymore, he leaves, and Kata is found dead the next morning. Two characters arrive then : an old man, who turns to be the father of Martin ; he settles and declares being returned to die here. And a girl, that Martin will keep as his new wife. |
| Per aspera ad astra | 1,969 | Nedeljko Dragić | Comedy, Animation | 5 | 15 | SH | Yugoslavia | Short movie where a little old man trying to get up from the toilet. He gets a helping hand. |
| Young and Healthy as a Rose | 1,971 | Jovan Jovanović | Drama, Action, Crime | 4.8 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolić, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of the local police. |
| Balkan Express 2 | 1,988 | Predrag Antonijević | Comedy, War | 4.8 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia. |
| Weird Years | 1,988 | Zoran Čalić | Comedy | 4.7 | 15 | SH | Yugoslavia | After the road accident, Zika and Milan end up in an overcrowded hospital, run by doctor Nedeljkovic and his sexually obsessed nurse. Accompanied by a crazy bandmaster and a peasant with farting problems, they will try to get away from the ongoing chaos. |
| Not Everything That Flies Is a Bird | 1,970 | Borislav Šajtinac | Animation | 4.7 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | The film describes the suffering of a character who is renovating his house while being confronted with a monstrous bird which is terrorising and oppressing him. It should be read as a parable of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The film was subject to severe criticism at the 1970 Oberhausen film festival in Germany in 1970, in particular from directors from South American communist countries. |
| Don Quixote | 1,962 | Vlado Kristl | Animation | 4.6 | 17 | SH | Yugoslavia | "Don Kihot" is a satirical, Klee-esque meditation about Don Quijote in the contemporary militaristic and regimentistic world. |
| The Falcon | 1,983 | Vatroslav Mimica | History, Drama, Action | 4.6 | 11 | SH | Germany | Banović 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. |
| Visitors from the Galaxy | 1,981 | Dušan Vukotić | Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror | 4.3 | 23 | SH | Czechoslovakia | Robert 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. |
| Sugar Water | 1,983 | Svetislav Prelić | Comedy | 3.8 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject herself under nose surgery. Her best friend begins to observe her from different point of view. |
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