Dragan Bjelogrlić
Also Known As: Dragan Bjelogrlic
Biography: Dragan Bjelogrlic is one of the greatest Serbian actor, director, and producer. Among successful acting career that lasts 40 years, last two decades he also devoted to producing and directing movies and TV shows, therefore he became one of the most recognized and successful cinematographic creators in the entire region. Dragan Bjelogrlic was born on October 10, 1963 and after finished elementary and high school in Belgrade, he enrolls at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDA). His first acting role in front of the camera was at the age of 15, as the character of Sava Jovanovic Sirogojno in the film "Bosko Buha" (1978). After graduating from the FDA in 1989, he had a number of roles that made him a well-known actor and also recognized as one of Serbia's leading artists. He attracted a lot of public attention with the role of Slobodan Popadic in the series "Better Life" (1987-1990). After that role, he was in the TV show "Forgotten" (1990) and the films "The Black Bomber" (1992), "Full Moon over Belgrade" (1993), " Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" (1996). So far, he has played in almost 40 films, about 20 TV shows and dramas and 11 theater plays. At the beginning of 1994, he founded the production company "COBRA FILM", which has produced some of the most famous theater plays, films and TV shows. For the last 20 years, Bjelogrlic has dedicated himself to production. The first film he produced was " Pretty Village, Pretty Flame ". He continued his artistic ambitions as a director and achieved a lot of success for directing the feature film and TV series "Montevideo, God Bless you". The film was chosen to represent Serbia at the Oscars when it was released. Over the last two years, he has set new standards for TV shows s with his very successful TV show "Black Sun", which second part was filmed and released in 2020. Also, this is the first Serbian TV show broadcasted on Amazon Prime. During 2020, Bjelogrlic directed and produced a film about the famous Serbian singer Toma Zdravkovic, whose premiere is expected in 2021. The film Guardians of the Formula, a big project from which a lot is expected, will start shooting in the middle of 2021. The Guardians of the Formula movie will be an emotional story that connects the Serbian and French people. Two years ago, he established Master class at Faculty for media and communications, Singidunum University Belgrade. He is married to Maja Bjelogrlic with whom he has a daughter Mia and a son Aleksej.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Opovo, Srbija
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Bad Blood
Overview: The film follows the story of Hadzi Trifun, a prominent Serbian merchant, who tries to keep the peace with the Turkish authorities, but also maintains his reputation and influence in Vranje, an important Turkish town near the border with liberated Serbia. While Trifun is preparing his two sons to succeed him as the leaders of the Serbian people, he is suffering not only from powerful Turkish beys, but also from his family. Trifun makes difficult decisions that will later affect his descendants, the heroes of the novel Impure Blood by Serbian writer Bora Stankovic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-08-26
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The Fall of Rock and Roll
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-05-07
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Black Gruja and the Stone of Wisdom
Overview: Based on a comedy TV series about Serbian "aristocracy" during the Turkish "answer" to the Serbian Uprising during the Serbian-Turkish war in the 19th century. During this time it was of the utmost importance to take the right steps and wisdom is really needed for making those right steps. With the help of a fortune teller, Karadjordje (the leader of the Uprising) learns that, according to a legend, somewhere in the hills exists a Stone of Wisdom which makes you, if you hit your head against it three times, more wise. So he employs his nephew Crni Gruja, with assistants Ceda Velja and Bole, to find him this miraculous Stone. Crni Gruja finds the Stone and, convinced that he is really becoming more wiser, decides to make some business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2007-01-31
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Milky Way
Overview: Two married couples of different religions and social status decide to swap their wives so they could all emigrate to New Zealand in an easier way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2000-12-21
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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Overview: In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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Hey Babu Riba
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-10-23
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Boško Buha
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Maternal Half-Brothers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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The Wounds
Overview: This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
Genres: War Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-05-27
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Storks in the Fog
Overview: Švaba, Marina, Ekser and Dule live and work peacefully in Baranda. However, a few days before the New Year, Špricer, Ekser and Dule's friend from early youth, arrives, who is in trouble and asks for their help. This TV film was made as a continuation of a popular Serbian TV series "The Storks Will Return".
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 2009-01-02
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Cheese and Jam
Overview: A story about a couple from the bottom of the social ladder, about smuggling refugees across borders and other 'suspect' things- it is, first and foremost, an attempt to tell a story about the worst in people, wherever they may be coming from.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2003-11-13
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Chasing Luck(y)
Overview: In a rented apartment in Belgrade lives Srećko, who always plays the same combination of lotteries in the hope to win a premium one day. Local seller of lottery tickets, Višnja, is In him the love him. One evening, Srecko gets premium worth of several million euros. Helpless Srećko looses his ticket and his memory. However, the winning lottery paper, by unfortunate circumstances, reaches the hands of Žile and Sale, the owner of the local cafes. Unprepared to manage this money, they go to the Greek island Corfu in the hopes that will inspired them for a business. Two suspicious Belgrade "businessman" fallow them to Corfu to steal them the ticket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2005-10-06
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Ivko's Feast
Overview: The story takes place in Nis, towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the calm down of the stormy historic events which led to final liberation of southern Serbian parts from Turkish occupation. The comedy is about celebrating traditional saint's day feast, organized by Ivko and how his guests test the Serbian hospitality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2005-11-03
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War Live
Overview: Belgrade, 1999. Producer Sergei and his film crew are in a disastrous situation - the film they're making is under threat - there's no money, the crew are dissatisfied - and NATO bombing is just around the corner. Then a member of the State Security Service (Mileta) comes looking for American co-producer Harvey. Anxious and worried, in the midst of the bombing that's begun, Sergei hides Harvey from what he thinks is awaiting him - arrest. During the night, he thinks up a plan. He announces the start of filming on a new, patriotic film - in which the main role will be played by Harvey. The plan works - the State supports the film and Mileta, as the State's representative, joins the crew. However, the underlying conflict between Mileta and Sergei explodes during the first screening. Mileta accuses them of being artists, and not being patriots.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2000-11-01
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Guardians of the Formula
Overview: In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2024-06-05
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The Red Colored Grey Truck
Overview: Belgrade, the summer of 1991. Yugoslavia is falling apart. Gavran can't get a driving licence because he is color blind. He is a rural Bosnian introvert obsessed with trucks. So, as soon as he is released from prison, he steals a truck to go on a joyride. Suzana, a city girl, discovers she is pregnant, but until she's due for an abortion, she decides to go to Dubrovnik. She hitchikes and Gavran almost runs her over. She is unhurt, but she blackmails him to take her to Dubrovnik. Two people from different worlds, equally removed from the real one. For him she is the first woman he can talk to; for her he is just another idiot to add to the long list of them that she has so far compiled. But the pressure of danger and the intimations of war force them together. The world about them has become so absurd that they seem to each other the only sober people left.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2004-08-11
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Sky Hook
Overview: Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2000-02-10
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The Black Bomber
Overview: In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1992-06-15
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Doctor Ray and the Devils
Overview: The story behind and around famous American director Nicholas Ray's 1960s stay in SFR Yugoslavia. The celebrated director who was the toast of Hollywood only a decade earlier having made Rebel Without a Cause has fallen on hard times and is now desperately trying to re-establish his spiraling film career. On the other hand, his powerful host, Avala Film director and former Yugoslav secret service operative Ratko Dražević, is dreaming big dreams - he is trying to establish a 'Hollywood behind the Iron Curtain' of sorts.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2012-03-04
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He Ain't Like That
Overview: Boško Pavlović is an intelligent, educated, careful, romantic young man whom women find magically attractive. But, things take a bad turn for him when he carelessly gets involved with the sister of a powerful Serbian tycoon and she commits suicide. Wishing to avenge his sister, the tycoon sends two extremely dangerous goons to find and punish Boško. Inspector Gavrić also searches for him, since he is the policeman in charge of the case.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2011-03-16
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Save Our Souls
Overview: The plot of this film can be viewed from a two different levels. The first is universal and deals with the psychological theme of need for competition in the group, highlighting the need for the victory, which in life usually does not depend on the true virtues of the winner, so the result is usually tragicomic. The story talks about the choice of the most noble work. Selected participants arrive at the guesthouse on the border between Croatia and Serbia to prepare for the final act of the competition and the jury's decision. Seven competitors have a rather narrow view of the world. Even when the big events, such as ethnic conflicts in this part of the Balkans, the contestants insist to proceed the competition and to choose the hero of heroes, even though the very idea of competition has become anachronistic under the pressure of current events (the anger of the local Serbian population of the newly established Croatian authorities).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2007-07-06
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Electrically Powered Music
Overview: In chronological order, the film follows the career of Momčilo Bajagić – Bajaga, one of the most prominent rock musicians from former Yugoslavia, together with his band ‘Instructors,’ who have been accompanying him for 25 years now.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Hallo, Taxi
Overview: Being suspicious that his wife is cheating on him, a Belgrade taxi driver discovers that she's about to be traded by a local gang who drug women and sell them to Arabs. He decides to take the matter into his own hands, and fight the gang without the help of police.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Monument to Michael Jackson
Overview: In a dying town in Serbia daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. When an old communist-era monument is removed from the Main Square, he comes up with the idea to build a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his town and seduce his wife again. But the town’s mayor has his own plans.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Two Hours of Quality TV Program
Overview: Made for New Year's Eve program, "Two Hours of Quality Program" exceeded all expectations becoming more than just a small TV movie. Using black humor as its sharp weapon, it dealt with ongoing chaos in the country and the introduction of new values to the urban culture.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Full Moon Over Belgrade
Overview: 1992 Belgrade. Aleksa works the night shift at an occult magazine to avoid military police, draft and war. Old colleague, Mrs. Kosara, offers him shelter at her place. Soon, a dead friend warns him in his dream about the old lady.
Genres: Drama Comedy Horror
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1993-07-14
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Natasha
Overview: Seventeen year old Natasha, a daughter of a murdered police inspector, tries to discover her father's killers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2001-04-26
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Diver
Overview: A man who works in a travel agency sees his chance to quit his job and do nothing for a while after his wife found a job, but now all the kitchen work is up to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Djindjic - The Story of Serbia
Overview: Aired on N1 to mark the anniversary of the Serbian Prime Minister’s assassination in 2003, the film explores the fallout of the assassination and how Zoran Djindjic and his political legacy are remembered today.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2023-12-03
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Exit
Overview: What do you do when suddenly in your mid twenties you realise that your life has become a routine which consists of a monotonous nine to five job on weekdays and equally predictable Friday night parties?
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2013-06-13
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Let's Make Love 3
Overview: Wealthy guy from Australia travels to his birthplace in Bosnia so he'd make a giant wedding with Yugoslavia's biggest star Lepa Brena. Although it's a Brena doppelganger, media rush to publish the story so Lepa Brena must run across the country to stop the false wedding and tell everyone the true.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-11-19
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Trail of the Beast
Overview: An aspiring journalist in Communist Yugoslavia, sets out on a journey to investigate a brutal murder in rural countryside.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Great Transport
Overview: This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-07-04
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Heroes for a Day
Overview: A comic tale of a group of boys and a pretty girl who try to make easy buck.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Best
Overview: A young officer, after finishing the Military Academy as the best in his class, suddenly and with no visible reason, leaves his home town, girl, parents, safety and eventual career and leaves to a remote provincial town to find and create his life and destiny. The story of a lonely man without illusions and bitterness, who collects simple pieces of sense, humanity and love through his actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-19
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Laush
Overview: A documentary-narrative film which looks at real events and personal phenomena of artist Zarko Lausevic. "Laush" above all tells a story of an evil time we've all been through, represents both sides and is made with empathy and respect towards everyone involved in the tragic incident. Through recreations, narration, memories of colleagues and quotes from the book "A Year Passes, a Day Will Never Pass" which the artist wrote during the hardest stage of his life, the weight of his fate is presented. The aim of this project is to portray the life of brilliant actor, who in the midst of great fame, disappeared from the scene through the cruelty of dubious times.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2014-02-27
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A Present for Sanja
Overview: Having been ditched by his girlfriend Sanja for a Turk called Murat, a Bosnian refugee who lives in Germany reaches a decision to commit suicide on the New Year's Eve. To cheer him up, his boss sends him a prostitute called Jovanka, not knowing that Jovanka is a Serb. In consequence, Jovanka and the suicidal Bosnian are forced to spend the New Year's Eve together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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Back Up
Overview: A man, old, decrepit, terrified, in a house with his friend Goran. Outside he wanders aimlessly, seeing enemies in both neighbours and foreigners. Ena, a journalist, arrives in the village, to film a story on heritage guardians. Through her camera lens she discovers a strange Man, secretly watching. His „hiding place“ has been exposed. Ilness and reality clash. In the house a threat appears, a wartime lover, with the message that the devil has come to collect his due. A stormy night and fateful encounters. To run or to fight and face it all? And return?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2024-08-16
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Dear Video
Overview: Dear Video is a black epistolary comedy which stars some of the finest actors from the former Yugoslavia. The film is constructed around the video 'correspondence' between two branches of a family, one living in Germany and pursuing 'modern' life and the other one living in a little village in Yugoslavia clinging to tradition. Through the home video 'letters' sent back and forth, petty jealousies, love liaisons and financial squabbles drive the family to the brink of war, a situation that reflects the collapsing state of affairs in what was then Yugoslavia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Moth
Overview: The story of a man called "Moth", who becomes an entertainment star. Burdened with great popularity and entertainment events, he can not find his way around, and gets in series of comic situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-04-04
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Mama's Boy
Overview: Middle-aged cinephile and film projectionist Pera still lives with his mother - and best friend - Mara, in Belgrade. It's 1999 and when NATO bombs start raining down on Serbia, the two of them become refugees. After a surreal journey, they end up in New York, where Pera realizes that he can no longer do the old job he loved so much. While he and Mara were struggling to survive, the new age of digital projection was born. Then Pera stumbles upon some discarded projectors and his new mission in life becomes clear: he will travel around and show people the magic of Real Cinema - the magic that can only be created by celluoid, mechanical projectors, the silver screen and flickering light.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2013-06-22
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Bare Ground
Overview: The story takes place in a dilapidated building in the blocks of New Belgrade, whose tenants constantly fight and do bad things to one another. In the same building lives a quiet and young married couple, who are completely different from their environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2003-03-09
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Buy Me an Eliot
Overview: A young unemployed saxophone player Boki is pursued by debt collector agency, whose secretary tries to save him. Having reached his dead end, the racketeers give him a twelve hours deadline to find the money. He calls everyone he could remember and unsuccessfully begs for help. The time inevitably runs...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1998-05-25
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Kick-Off
Overview: A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Balkan Syndrome
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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South Wind
Overview: A story about Petar Maraš, a Belgrade criminal in his late twenties, whose one reckless move causes an avalanche of events that will greatly affect the lives of those around him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2018-10-23
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Balkan Rules
Overview: Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one knows the difference. That is why this fictitious story looks so true.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1997-04-09
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Ænigma
Overview: The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls' boarding school in order to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-10-25
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Dark Echoes
Overview: The zombie ghost of a sunken excursion boat captain haunts an Austrian lake in search of vengeance against those who caused the accident.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Inseparable
Overview: March 2020. As the Covid-19 epidemic is declared, movement restrictions are put in place and social life is disrupted. Inseparable tells the story of a group of friends who still find a way to connect and share their thoughts with each other.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2020-09-14
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Better Life
Overview: A film based on the highly popular Yugoslav TV series Better Life. Dragiša 'Giga' Popadić, the head of the Popadić family, organizes a Women's Day shopping trip to Thessaloniki, Greece, for his female coworkers.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-03-08
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