Mirjana Joković
Also Known As: Мирјана Јоковић
Biography: Mirjana Joković (born November 24, 1967) is a Serbian film and stage actress, best known for her role as Natalija Zovkov in Emir Kusturica's Underground (1995). She currently is Director of Performance for Acting and an acting teacher in the Theater Faculty of the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Užice, Serbia
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Birthday: November 24, 1967
Age: 57 years old
Gender: Female
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Underground
Overview: A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-05-13
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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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Eversmile New Jersey
Overview: Traveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against cavities, but also against fear, ignorance, indifference - and established antediluvian dentists. During a stop at a lonesome garage he meets Estella, who is supposed to marry a few days later. However she'd rather come with him - to meet a former boyfriend in another town, she says. Expecting problems, he refuses to take her, but she tricks him into it and then tries hard to convince him of her qualities and let her stay with him.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-11
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Three Summer Days
Overview: Serbian film about the life of refugees from Bosnia is Serbia during the war years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1997-08-07
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The Forgotten
Overview: The story about two boys and a girl escape from a home for abandoned children for a wild weekend. TV series (11 episodes) with the same name and same story was released 1988.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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At Middleton
Overview: George is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith is a free spirit with an overachieving teenage daughter. When they meet during an admissions tour with their kids at the small, idyllic Middleton University, they decide to ditch the group. Though adversaries at first, they soon discover that the only thing better than the college tour, is the detour.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Forever Hold Your Peace
Overview: Two days before the wedding, Dragana decides that she will not marry the weak and predictable Momo. His headstrong father Leso strikes a deal with her – to act as the bride just for the day. But instead of saving the family’s honor, it only starts a traumatic farce for everyone involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2024-11-21
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The Serbian Girl
Overview: The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-31
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Stories from the End of the Corridor
Overview: The action takes place over one weekend and shows women who are being treated for infertility at a gynecology clinic, but also face hypocrisy and alienation from society.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Truckers Ride Again
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-04-05
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Alphaville: For a Million
Overview: Music video
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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The Hornet
Overview: A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-04-06
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Private Property
Overview: A woman living alone on an island must fight for her life in the directorial debut of filmmaker Elizabeth Dimon. Although reluctant to do so, island recluse Tess (Mirjana Jokovic) offers her home to Sam (David Thornton) and Nigel (Tomas Arana), a pair of tuxedo-suited (and blood-soaked) strangers who arrive via motorboat with an exotic animal in tow. Allowing them to heal their wounds but desperate to get them out of her home, Tess immediately hides her valuables and frequently makes for the cellar where she appears to speak with an unseen housemate.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-03-07
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Vukovar Poste Restante
Overview: The violent break-up of former Yugoslavia is described from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnically mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphor.
Genres: War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Time of Miracles
Overview: September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-04-01
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The Last Owls and the First Peacocks
Overview: During the final battles of liberation in 1945, the three generations of a bourgeoisie family gather in their villa. Their children, who recognized the momentum of “new age”, are in touch with the communists. The arrival of their escaped sibling brings the tension into family crisis.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-10-17
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Name: Dobrica, Last Name: Unknown
Overview: This is a story, actually a fairytale for adults, that expresses how life could be beautiful, if only mankind would get out of its own way and enjoy it for a change.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2016-11-02
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The Little One
Overview: In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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The Border
Overview: The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a village on the border.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-06-04
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Side Streets
Overview: The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-05
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Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground
Overview: While his country Yugoslavia gradually turns into a battlefield, director Emir Kusturica guides his film crew to overcome this reality. A new world, which carries the signs of the old, comes to life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-30
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The Way South
Overview: A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslavia, to find his spouse and take her along. He chooses the youngest daughter of self-supporting Jewish woman. The deceit gets discovered on the way to South America. Seven poor girls, among whom is his future wife, are imprisoned in ship's deck. He took them, promising rich marriage, and his real intention is to employ them in bordello houses of Buenos Aires, where the girls, not knowing the language, would be left to his mercy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1988-05-10
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Liability Crisis
Overview: Paul (Jim Helsinger) is a morose young advertising executive and aspiring film maker whose obsession with the Holocaust has gone way out of control. Paul has been compiling interviews with World War II survivors for a documentary film, and the project has propelled him to a state of paranoia. Listening to Beethoven, Paul worries that the composer wrote "Nazi music" and imagines that the plush sound on a Furtwangler recording owes to the violins' strings having been made out of "Jewish intestines." When his Yugoslav-born fiancee Dunia (Mirjana Jokovic) returns from China, where she has been studying, the two enter into an agonizing debate about whether to marry. She bluntly questions Paul's religious convictions, since he doesn't observe Orthodox Jewish traditions.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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The Last Race
Overview: Twelve-year-old son of a divorced parents live in a skyscraper, but the drab of urban living is somewhat improved by the proximity of hippodrome and horse farm. Boy's favorite is a former champion named Evergreen, a stud whom the administration decides to sell to the slaughterhouse. After an unsuccessful attempt to change their mind, children steal the horse and disappear. After realizing what this horse mean to them, they give it as a present to the boy's class.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Cabaret Balkan
Overview: 20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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A Better Way to Die
Overview: Boomer is a rookie cop based in the urban hellhole that is downtown Chicago. After his involvement in a drug bust operation which results in the death of Carlos, his mentor and father figure, Boomer becomes disillusioned with the brutal and inhumane nature of his job. Consequently, he decides to hand in his resignation to the Chicago Police Department and return to his home town of Joliet, where his fiancé, Kelly, awaits. While en route back to Joliet, however, Boomer makes a grievous error in judgment when he stops for, and assists, an unfortunate motorist whose vehicle appears to have broken down; the naive ex-cop is swiftly attacked and rendered unconscious. Boomer awakes to find that his car and wallet have been stolen, and that he has become involved in a dangerous game of mistaken identity.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-26
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Easy Land
Overview: Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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Maid in Manhattan
Overview: Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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