On a hot summer afternoon in a city courtyard, a young man amuses himself by aiming air guns at random targets. The film examines the roots and manifestations of Evil, which will become the director’s permanent concern.
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A successful man, a television presenter is living his dignified and comfortable life. And then, one night in the parking lot he gets beaten up. He does not know who attacked him, does not know why he was attacked. When a few days later he experiences another attack, his life begins to change: friends are suspicious, he gets a promotion, his girlfriend doubt his sanity ... lost, he wanders through the dark streets at night and searching for the assailants. On one such night, and I suddenly raises his hand to the unknown man...
Attacker
9.0 1993 • Yugoslavia -
Becoming a wife of a minister, Zivka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration, since her husband is forced to resign after a being involved in a scandal. Based on a highly popular Serbian comedy novel by Branislav Nusic.
The Cabinet Minister's Wife
7.0 1989 • Yugoslavia -
A romance based on the motifs of the novel by Veljko Petrovic “Maria, Where Are You?”
The Karlovci Experience of 1889
7.5 1983 • Yugoslavia -
The last film made in Yugoslavia, tells a story about Sarajevo during the last days of Europe, better known as the "Belle Epoque", between the years 1910-1914. A time of troubled events in the Balkans and an assassination attempt of Franz Ferdinand, which caused the beginning of the First World War.
The Last Waltz in Sarajevo
5.0 1990 • Yugoslavia -
This drama premiered in Zagreb in 1935. The plot shows a young man from a well-to-do bourgeois family facing the anger of his parents over his absences from high school, behind which stands his forbidden love with a girl of humble working-class background.
The Case of Graduate Wagner
0.0 1976 • Yugoslavia -
A projection of the situation in monarchist Yugoslavia after the infamous Proclamation and the Law on the Protection of the State, when repression and police violence stifled any progressive idea. Inspired by some literary works of Miroslav Krleza.
Tomo Bakran
8.0 1978 • Yugoslavia -
An absurd depiction of the communist revolution in Yugoslavia after World War II, the film primarily follows a group of young partisans who are placed in the home of a pre-war bourgeois family. The family then tries to adapt to the new ideology and values, often leading to various absurd situations.
The Role of My Family in the World Revolution
6.2 1971 • Yugoslavia -
A married couple, in which one spouse sacrifices for the other, where the initial intimacy and love is lost, finds ways to torment each other. In the end, they find attraction again, which unites them.
End of the Weekend
9.0 1985 • Yugoslavia -
In this typically wild ride by Krešimir Zimonić a lonesome girl at the seashore unexpectedly learns something about herself.
Butterflies
0.0 1988 • Yugoslavia -
Portrait of an elderly widower who meets love of his life again after half a century.
Russian Tzar
10.0 1993 • Yugoslavia -
Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go to the river. On the bank of the Sava river meets an old friend, a former captain in love with the river. Accepting new way of life, isidor becomes a different man. But it comes terrifying wartime.Yugoslavia was occupied, the terror begins. Isidor is witnessed changes and in him growing need to resist the atrocities of the invaders. He refuses to flee with his family from Belgrade, it becomes illegal brave, little hero of invisible front.
And This Will Pass, Too...
8.0 1985 • Yugoslavia -
Three gangsters smuggle a microfilm with passport data from West Germany to their buyer from Middle East, which happens to be crucial thing for the security of European Community. On their way through Yugoslavia, they try to hide the microfilm in the Miss Universum's purse who pays visit to the country at its national beauty contest. The problems arise when the microfilm accidentally finds itself in the possession of one of the competitors, unbeknown-st to her. The criminals try to get in possession of the microfilm, however a brave journalist who came because of the contest prevents them of doing so.
Miss
9.0 1986 • Yugoslavia -
"The Time of Love" is omnibus of two parts. Part I: Experiences and growing up of a 16 years old girl without much of parents' attention. Part II: A brother looks for a husband for his sickly sister, but during that search she finds her true love.
The Time of Love
6.0 1966 • Yugoslavia -
A graduated architect, looking for work, leaves for small border town of Subotica full of fresh ideas. He comes back depressed and disillusioned still looking for job. He tries to join his old friends, hoping they would help him to find happiness he wants. He spends one night with his highschool friends, but memories come back to haunt him, old wounds open again... That night, he sees his generation in true colors and he's trying to salvage at least some of good memories. At dawn, one girl commits suicide, one of his friends is taken by military police, the rest are seriously shook up by events. Coming back from police station, he finds a message from Subotica asking him to come back for work...
Stairway to Heaven
6.0 1983 • Yugoslavia -
Due to fighting against the Germans and the Ustashas, the partisans in central Bosnia decide to strike the salt pans, and take the much needed salt for the people and army. After serious attacks and heavy losses, they complete their mission successfully.
Salt
7.1 1973 • Yugoslavia -
The film consists of three stories, the structure and interrelationships of which we discover during the film.
It Doesn't Smell Like Flowers Anymore
9.0 1998 • Yugoslavia -
A farcical parody about a group of upstarts who, in the imaginary seaside town of Cipoli, clash with the Venetian cops, led by the comical captain Trapollo.
Dramolett by Chiribilli
0.0 1972 • Yugoslavia -
Three years later, Tomaz meets Milena in Ljubljana where she practices dancing. In order to spend more time with her, Tomaz enrolls at the dance club where he finds many new friends. As the club is faced with close-down, the members decide to save it by setting up a dance show for the urban elite.
A Summer in a Sea Shell 2
8.1 1988 • Yugoslavia -
About an elderly woman in a country house, spending time with her only companion, a goat.
Friends
6.8 1972 • Yugoslavia -
In Skopje in 1939 a family of a disabled bricklayer clashes over tradition, patriarchal morality and modern world views as fascism and World War II loom on the horizon.
Wild Flesh
8.0 1982 • Yugoslavia -
Documentary showing buildings made by great architect Joze Plecnik in Prague, Wien, Ljubljana...
Maestro Plecnik
5.0 1953 • Yugoslavia -
The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.
Happy New '49
6.6 1986 • Yugoslavia -
In search for the better life, three peasants Radovan, Jeremija and Gaša leave for a big city. Despite their expectations, there are many trials and temptations. Radovan manages to fit in by going to the evening school. The oldest of them, Jeremija, goes back to the village, while Gaša, after unreturned love, leaves to look for happiness somewhere else.
To Come and Stay
6.3 1965 • Yugoslavia -
A tale of two brothers from babies to adulthood told without words. One brother is upstaged by the other from the crib onward. Eventually the tables are turned.
Elbow (As Such)
10.0 1959 • Yugoslavia -
A lost Croatian film.
Lady in the Black Mask
9.0 1919 • Yugoslavia -
A priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She starts to train. She runs, meets a local boy and falls in love. She runs again, meets a black man and starts flirting. The local boy kills a black man out of jealousy and the police kills him.
Cross Country
6.0 1969 • Yugoslavia -
A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.
Three Quarters of the Sun
8.3 1959 • Yugoslavia -
Martin and his girlfriend Zorica are two students who live as subtenants in separate flats. Since that situation has devastating effect on their love life, they yearn after the place of their own. When Martin's landlords go to the hollidays, it seems that their prayers, at least temporarily, had been listened to. However, the idilla is very short one, because other people also want to use the situation.
Martin in the Clouds
7.3 1961 • Yugoslavia -
In Ljubljana lives a bus driver Stebe. He's a widower. He lives with five sons and a maid Rozi. The boys are very naughty and keep annoying Rozi and, in fact all neighbourhood. One day Rozi in desperation declares that she is leaving them, because she cant stand it no more. And she does leave, although she is fond of the boys. Soon afterwards Rozi's niece Meri comes by, asking if she might stay because she wants to find herself a job in town. Meri is good girl but cannot cope with the kitchen work as successfully as her aunt. But the whole Steb family seems to be charmed by her. Even one of Stebe's own colleagues, Tone, begins to take interest in the girl. Meri likes him too. Stebe's boys feel quite disappointed because of it. But all's well that ends well: in full conspiracy Meri qualifies as bus driver while Rozi returns to the Stebe family.
Real Pests!
8.3 1977 • Yugoslavia -
A TV adaptation of Branislav Nusic's legendary comedy "The Lady Minister", which follows the wife of a minister who changes her lifestyle and becomes sophisticated all of a sudden. However, her husband resigns after being involved in a scandal, but she finds hard to get back to previous life.
The Lady Minister
8.0 1978 • Yugoslavia -
An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.
Backbone
6.5 1975 • Yugoslavia -
Jelena and dr Mirkovic realize that their relationship is not just fulfilling the party's task of better maintenance of the illegal press. When Mirkovic joined partisans, one of the illegal fighters didn't endure interrogation of the police and reveals the pressroom's location. Jelena manages to save herself and the press continues its work.
The Pursuit
7.0 1956 • Yugoslavia -
In 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
0.0 1976 • Yugoslavia -
The drama questions what would happen in private and professional terms to a man who would start telling his friends and work colleagues everything he really thinks.
The Scar
0.0 1969 • Yugoslavia -
A small town in the first year of the war. A story about young seamstress, a student, a traitor and two Czech artists, their joining the partisans. All of them die and girl stays alone. She's looking for a bicycle bell that is gone...
The Cyclists
6.3 1970 • Yugoslavia -
Three middle-aged people spend their vacation in a house on the Adriatic island. The marriage of Eta and her older husband Vladan gradually proves to be troubled, while the third person, doctor Ivan, is the only one who knows that Ela struggles with incurable disease...
The Terrace
9.0 1983 • Yugoslavia -
An engineer and his wife move to Zenica where the construction of the first plants is taking place, during highly progressive industrialization of the country. Her dreams are not in accordance with the reality, which makes their marriage impossible to function.
Zenica
6.8 1957 • Yugoslavia -
A contemporary drama about a woman at a turning point in life, too old to start life all over, but young enough not to decide to try. After a failed marriage abroad, childless and with unfulfilled expectations, Melisa returns to Zagreb longing for her mother, brother, friends and beloved hometown.
Five Dead Adresses
0.0 1985 • Yugoslavia -
Through 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
0.0 1974 • Yugoslavia -
Comedy about a group of musicians who are sent to play to villagers and workers to raise morale during a 5 year plan. The trouble is they prefer to play jazz and boogie music to the traditional folk songs, and each time they try their jazz they are reprimanded by the local party secretary.
Red Boogie
5.7 1982 • Yugoslavia -
In the last days of WW2 two children from former Yugoslavia manage to escape a Nazi concentration camp. They begin a long and dangerous journey home.
The Dangerous Journey
5.8 1963 • Yugoslavia -
Professor Herceg struggling with difficulties, it is not easy to determine how students conveyed knowledge, and even harder to avoid the hatred of the disciples, and sympathy for the students. Arrival of television in school, a poll about the new school, students' imaginations and similar conditions will not relieve his problem.
Tit for Tat
7.0 1978 • Yugoslavia -
Two factory workers with gambling addictions invest all their wages in a sweepstakes that will take place in the factory's bar without realizing that they are taking part in shady dealings between the factory head and the president of the local boxing club.
The Tombola
10.0 1985 • Yugoslavia -
Instead of running away from enemy raid, a female partisan-doctor decides to stay and help one of their wounded children.
I Was Stronger
10.0 1953 • Yugoslavia -
The story of the birth of a love between two young people, about its duration, with all the difficulties and beauty that it brings, the closing of that love because of conflicts with exaggerated dynamics and false values of contemporary life.
The Girl in the Park
5.3 1968 • Yugoslavia -
A war between two families, who live in the same building.
Radovan the Third
9.4 1983 • Yugoslavia -
Brothers and their sister come to their native village on their deceased father's burial. Each of them has own plan of taking particular area of property, but in the will their father left behind it is stated they can use the lot only together. They leave the village in disappointment.
Lamb on the Spit
0.0 1982 • Yugoslavia -
A three-part omnibus. First story: Two friends remember their past, while unsuccessfully trying to win girl's heart. Second story: A teenage girl falls in love with a grown man for whom this encounter is nothing but an unimportant meeting. Third story: A young girl from conservatory meets a man of her dreams.
Three-Hearts Locket
6.8 1962 • Yugoslavia -
TV drama that depicts treatment and persecution of outlaws in the Kingdom of Serbia during 1860s.
Brigandage
7.0 1970 • Yugoslavia -
War arrives to a small secluded village in Vojvodina. The Germans take a group of hostages through the village and on their way molest a small boy. As revenge, the boy sets the German corn on fire. An intelligent and shrewd Gestapo officer Šicer arrives to investigate. He does not even suspect that he is up against a group of small boys, led by Milan and Vaso, and orders that all men from the village be taken to custody. He announces that one man will be shot each day unless the real culprit steps forward. Children contact the partisans.
The Farm in the Small Marsh
7.4 1976 • Yugoslavia -
Bizarre life of circus performers and their encounters with danger are the main substance of this TV drama.
The Wall of Death
7.0 1980 • Yugoslavia -
A student of music education comes to the music festival where organizers mix him up with the conductor. He accepts the role which creates lots of comic situations.
We'll Meet Tonight
6.4 1962 • Yugoslavia -
Through the window of his old building, curious and idle Mr Piero "spies" the apartment across the street where lives Giovanni, an Italian soldier. Despite his wife's resentment and ridicule from the neighborhood, Piero cannot resist the temptation of dangerous surveillance. His curiosity is heated upon noticing that his neighbor returned from the war campaign in the hinterland with bloodied hands.
Giovanni
0.0 1976 • Yugoslavia -
Tena, a young Slavonian woman becomes aware of her own beauty which makes her fall into a state of moral decay. Her newly discovered promiscuity eventually makes her fellow villagers turn on her.
Tena
7.0 1975 • Yugoslavia -
The second TV adaptation of popular novel by Serbian comedian Branislav Nusic. A small town is disturbed by the arrival of a "suspicious person", an unknown man wanted by the local authorities. During the hunt, it turns out that the suspect is no one else than the mayor's son-in-law who checked under his false name in order to hide his whereabouts from his girlfriend's parents.
A Suspicious Character
8.0 1979 • Yugoslavia -
The film scores particularly as a psychological study of a student dropout. It focuses on Pavle Komel, a young man who shuns even the most elementary relationship with previously close friends and acquaintances. A final attempt to find himself via a return to his childhood roots in a rural area, followed by a brief contact with his estranged father, prove fruitless: in the end Pavle decides to quit his studies altogether at the university.
The Time of Crisis
7.0 1981 • Yugoslavia -
Life of Simo Šolaja (1905-1942), a Yugoslav partisan national hero from Bosnia.
Solaja
6.5 1955 • Yugoslavia -
A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.
The Bizarre Country
6.0 1988 • Yugoslavia -
This TV drama is the graduate work of a screenwriter which deals with the maturation process of three characters of different age: a 12-year-old girl, a 30-year-old man and the 50-year old girl's granddad.
Summer
7.0 1989 • Yugoslavia