Bosnian war movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant bosnian war movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, tense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with bosnian war, military, life is a bitch, balkan war, genocide, war, soldier, yugoslav war, violence and rape plots mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres shot in France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bosnian war: As If I Am Not There (2010), Where are you going, Aida? (2020), Warriors (1999), In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), The Whistleblower (2010), Savior (1998), Renegades (2017), Shot Through the Heart (1998), Children of Sarajevo (2012), Avenger (2006).

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As If I Am Not There (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious, disgusting
Plot: bosnian war, rape, pregnant from rape, genocide, realism, wartime life, life is a bitch, soldier, military, life turned upside down, strong female presence, violence ...
Place: bosnia, balkan, sarajevo, former yugoslavia, europe ...
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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, psychological, serious ...
Plot: bosnian war, coming of age, depression, support group, life is a bitch, parents and children, haunted by the past, parent child relationship, family relations, single parent, civil war, rape ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: bosnia, eastern europe, croatia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina ...
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Where are you going, Aida? (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Turkey, Norway
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida ...
Style: political, captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bosnian war, translator, genocide, un, firing squad, family in danger, woman in danger, women, life risking, military, saving a life, risk ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: bosnia herzegovina, serbia, eastern europe
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For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qatar, Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to ViĊĦegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. After a night of insomnia in the 'romantic' Hotel Vilina Vlas, Kym ...
Style: bleak, serious, disturbing, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: bosnian war, genocide, uncover truth, life turned upside down, investigation, journalist, life is a bitch, social relations, small town, rape, hotel, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bosnia, bosnia herzegovina
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 8.3
 3K
Warriors (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 175 min.
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Story: If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.
Style: independent film, captivating, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: balkan war, bosnian war, genocide, war crime, yugoslav war, ethnic cleansing, war on terror, propaganda, slavery, aid worker, atrocity, military ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: bosnia herzegovina, iraq, former yugoslavia, europe, liverpool ...
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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot: bosnian war, soldier, muslim, forbidden love, war, rape, life is a bitch, love affair, escape, love and romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, europe, former yugoslavia
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The Whistleblower (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the experiences of Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) who discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an ...
Style: rough, political, educational, factual, heartbreaking ...
Plot: un, sex trafficking, rape, corruption, sex crime, politics, conspiracy, gender, investigation, teenage prostitution, brutality, civil war ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2010, year 1999, 21st century
Place: bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo, usa, europe ...
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 7.2
 11K
Savior (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
Style: bleak, disturbing, depressing, tense, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, atrocity, rape, redemption, genocide, breast feeding, war crime, ethnic cleansing, mercenary, soldier, hopes, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia, europe, serbia, balkan ...
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 5.5
 11K
Renegades (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, USA, Malta, Croatia, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A team of Navy SEALs discovers an underwater treasure in a Bosnian lake.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bosnian war, military, world war two, treasure, navy, rescue, courage, friendship between men, gold, gunfight, bomb, map ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, year 1995, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: serbia, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, eastern europe, balkan ...
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Shot Through the Heart (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, biting ...
Plot: sniper, balkan war, yugoslav war, conflict, war on terror, sibling relationship, state affairs, against humanity, politics, soldier, society, betrayal ...
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
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The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film deals with an aspiring filmmaker, Marko, who is unable to pursue a career in horror films. He ventures into the porn industry, but his unorthodox style fails to impress producers. Frustrated, he assembles a crew of junkies, homosexuals and ...
Style: disturbing, road movie, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: sexualized violence, suicide, cabaret, against the rules, life is a bitch, political unrest, extreme, violence, filmmaker, gay, hardcore, social relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: serbia, former yugoslavia
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Children of Sarajevo (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A microcosm of the fathomless suffering that remains more than 16 years since the siege of Sarajevo ended, writer-director Aida Begic’s follow-up to her 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize-winning debut Snow tells the story of two orphaned ...
Style: realistic, thought provoking, bleak, serious, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, orphan, society, youth, social decay, siblings relations, friendship, bosnian war, european, world war, family relations, money
Time: 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan
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 5.6
 1K
Avenger (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, political thriller ...
Plot: manhunt, vigilante, undercover, justice, working undercover, race against time, rivalry, government agency, save the day, state affairs, dishonesty, spy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., latin america, africa, south africa, bosnia ...
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Before the Rain (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her ...
Style: political, realistic, atmospheric, anthology, disturbing ...
Plot: civil war, love affair, social commentary, terrorist, wartime, islam, politics, muslim, photojournalist, monk, bosnian war, international relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: macedonia, former yugoslavia, london, bosnia, england ...
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 7.3
 3K
The Enemy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story begins a couple days after the war has ended. A group of Serbian soldiers in charge of clearing the fields from mines discovers a man sealed inside a factory's basement. A mysterious man says he is 'ours', he doesn't ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological thriller, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: military, post war, isolation, supernatural, danger, missing person, prisoner, paranoia, mind meld, soldier, violent content, confined ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: bosnia, balkan, croatia, europe, former yugoslavia
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 6.7
 917
Go West (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War, Western
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the nineties the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken ...
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, tense, islamic ...
Plot: hidden identity, love and romance, political unrest, tragic love, state affairs, gays and lesbians, danger, society, life is a bitch, wartime life, love affair, bosnian war ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: bosnia, balkan, serbia, europe, former yugoslavia
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My Mother's Wound (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Upon turning eight-teen, Salih leaves the orphanage to find his lost family and begins working in a Serbian farm. Suddenly, at the most unexpected moment he has found a home. Will he ever be able to let go of the ghosts of his past and be happy in ...
Style: captivating
Plot: bosnian war, child born of rape, revenge, rape, war crime, revenge plot, secret, family problems, uncover truth, orphan, family secret, confronting the past ...
Place: turkey
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 6.3
 592
Babai (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Kosovo, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 10-year-old Nori is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother and then being abandoned by his father Gezim in the Kosovo of the 1990s.After a dangerous and eventful journey, Nori finally arrives in Germany and is ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, art house
Plot: boy, punishment, father son relationship, marriage, abuse, theft, bosnian war, migrant, migration, children in wartime, cigarette smoking, bus ...
Place: germany, bosnia, kosovo
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The Tragic Burlesque (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the ...
Style: offbeat, black comedy
Plot: bosnian war, bride and groom, psychiatric patient, psychiatric hospital, male female relationship, mental institution, love, doctor, husband wife relationship, farce, wedding, marriage ...
Place: balkan, belgrade, serbia, belgrade serbia
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 7.2
 2K
The Hornet (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Italy, Bulgaria
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.
Style: neo noir, political, crime drama, erotic drama
Plot: bosnian war, love story, politics, passionate love, nudity, assassination attempt, lover lover relationship, sex scene, male nudity, police investigation, hidden identity, bare breasts ...
Place: kosovo
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Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story takes place in 1993 Serbia, torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his friend, a painter, and makes money by selling his paintings to the "new elite". He meets a nice girl who ...
Plot: bank robbery, bosnian war, robbery, stolen money, river, dream, barge
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The State of the Dead (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.
Plot: humiliation, bosnian war, life story, balkan war, female nudity, male nudity, family relations, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, pubic hair, urination, female full frontal nudity
Place: former yugoslavia
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Awakening from the Dead (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, a ...
Style: black and white
Plot: bosnian war, grave, suicide, parent child relationship, friends, nato, bombing, journalist, male nudity, old friend, murder, father son relationship ...
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 7.9
 49K
No Man's Land (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Belgium, UK, Slovenia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Style: bleak, harsh, political, talky, thought provoking ...
Plot: anti war, politics, soldier, military, civil war, survival, war, intrigue, bosnian war, un, wartime, bomb ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2001, year 1993, 2000s
Place: bosnia, serbia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, eastern europe ...
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Sympathy for the Devil (2019)
Genre: War
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, touching, exciting ...
Plot: war correspondent, bosnian war, death, blood, un, journalist, peace, nudity, bare butt, male pubic hair, voice over narration, bare chested male ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: sarajevo
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 2.3
 588
Down River (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.
Style: suspense, serious, exciting, tense, black comedy ...
Plot: al qaeda, bosnian war, behind enemy lines, fictional war, 20 year old, truck, gas mask, 18 year old, survival, military, murder, pursuit ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: germany, congo, vietnam, normandy, cambodia
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 7.7
 5K
Circles (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after ...
Style: serious, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: society, hopes, life is a bitch, post war, haunted by the past, redemption, moral dilemma, bosnian war, metaphor, surgery, destiny, serial killer ...
Time: year 2013, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: bosnia, serbia, eastern europe, balkan, croatia ...
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 5.8
 2K
Sabotage (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Former special services agent plays an intricate game of chess involving several federal agencies. Queen takes pawn.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: hostage, betrayal, fbi, martial arts, cia agent, sniper, false accusation, conspiracy, traitor, bomb, fistfight, gunfight ...
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 7.3
 17K
Twice Born (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, romantic, suspenseful ...
Plot: power of love, redemption, balkan war, rape, life is a bitch, parents and children, haunted by the past, hopes, single parent, family relations, italian soldier, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina, europe
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The Living and the Dead (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, War, Horror
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the ...
Style: stylized, psychological, bleak, islamic, captivating ...
Plot: military, ghost, supernatural, state affairs, life is a bitch, danger, battles, military life, soldier, political unrest, society, balkan war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1943, year 1993
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia, balkan, croatia, bosnia herzegovina ...
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