Dragan Despot
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Birthday: July 14, 1956
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The Horseman
2003-01-01
The Horseman
Overview: The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Silk, the Shears
1987-01-01
The Silk, the Shears
Overview: Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Story from Croatia
1991-01-01
Story from Croatia
Overview: After the breaking of mass movements in 1971., the student Ilija Baric must leave the country because of his political beliefs, and his father Luka lost a job and goes to work to Germany. After Titos death in 1980. there is a new political motion, but repression is still strong. That feels even decennial John, the brother of Ilija, who is in love with Marina, the daughter of the Head of the police and Communist Andrew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Pusca Bistra
2005-07-17
Pusca Bistra
Overview: After a series of unfortunate events, TV subscription collector Pero falls into a deep emotional crisis from which he cannot escape. His only goal is - spiritual peace and, if possible - revenge. People he holds responsible are randomly chosen citizens of the Pusca Bistra village. After he accidently finds out certain facts, Pero finds irrefutable evidence about unhonorable acts of Pusca's citizens and accidently blackmails the entire village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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National Hero Lily Vidic
2015-12-31
National Hero Lily Vidic
Overview: This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope for resisting Nazism is to assassinate Hitler. Ljiljan’s task is to write a song that will allow his Partisan band to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the SS – by entering an SS talent show. If they win the competition, they will be invited to perform before Hitler and the NDH’s high command. This is a satirical coming-of-age tale with a difference, capturing the craziness, comedy and horror of war in the Balkans.
Genres: Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2015-12-31
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The Age of Uskoks
2021-05-13
The Age of Uskoks
Overview: Feature documentary film on the phenomenon of Uskoks of Senj, legendary corsairs and anti-Osman soldiers from 16th and 17th century.
Genres: Documentary History Action Drama Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2021-05-13
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The Wrath of God
2025-01-30
The Wrath of God
Overview: Ilija is a member of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) somewhere in Central Bosnia in late 1993. One morning, after a routine mine laying campaign, he learns his younger brother Goran was killed far beyond enemy lines, together with eight other soldiers. Through a friend from the secret service, he finds out the mission was an unofficial one and that Goran and the others were acting as mercenaries. Ilija begins to expose a network of illegal activity involving not only the military, but high-ranking officials. As the investigation becomes more dangerous, his original intention to find out the truth slowly turns into a pathological mission of vengeance.
Genres: Crime Thriller War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2025-01-30
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Flower Square
2013-04-11
Flower Square
Overview: An obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2013-04-11
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The Return
1979-07-05
The Return
Overview: Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-07-05
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Sucks
2012-05-16
Sucks
Overview: A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Below the Line
2003-07-23
Below the Line
Overview: A young man finds himself torn between the love for his girlfriend and his family's hardship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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Slow Surrender
2001-06-22
Slow Surrender
Overview: Petar Gorjan is a 40-year-old successful propagandist and cynical strategist of consumerist society that is faced with family and identity crisis. He embarks on a journey from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, transporting humanitarian aid in his off-road vehicle, and on his way he will be accompanied by slightly mentally troubled Lukas and a vagabond girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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When Nobody Is Looking
1993-01-01
When Nobody Is Looking
Overview: A suspicious cop tracks his own wife in this romantic thriller about hypertrophied jealousy.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Seventh Cronicle
1996-01-01
The Seventh Cronicle
Overview: In former Yugoslavia, following Tito's break-up with Stalin, the rocky island of Goli Otok was the camp site for political prisoners. From that officially non-existant yet dreaded place a young man escapes and seeks refuge on a nearby island. The nuns from the local convent find him unconscious and decide to give him shelter. A relentless secret policeman comes to the island and starts making life miserable for its inhabitants, hoping to find his prey...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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For Good Old Times
2018-07-18
For Good Old Times
Overview: Two childhood friends face adulthood in different ways. Life is still a game for them – girls, football, parties. But the choices they make will determine the course of their lives and put their friendship to the test. In the Balkans, every generation has their own reasons to leave. This is a story about a generation caught in the transition from socialism to capitalism, marked by a brutal war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2018-07-18
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Dead Fish
2017-07-20
Dead Fish
Overview: Drama set in a small provincial town in post-war Croatia about 20 locals who try to understand why one of their neighbors killed himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2017-07-20
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The Recollection Thief
2007-07-18
The Recollection Thief
Overview: Approximately a month before the death of the first Croatian president and in the wake of parliamentary elections in December 1999, a diplomat from the Croatian embassy in Paris is reported missing. He is a doctor of French literature who returned from Canada in 1991. Gawain Skok, who took part in the War for Independence and defended Vukovar, starts a search.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2007-07-18
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