Movies and TV shows set in former yugoslavia – page 4

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ZOS: Zone of Separation (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: ZOS: Zone of Separation is a Canadian television drama mini-series, co-executive produced by Paul Gross. It is an eight-part Canadian original drama mini-series about the life and death struggle to enforce a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in the fictional, ...
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, rough, bleak ...
Plot: un, military life, peaceful mission, peace, life is a bitch, war, rivalry, society, religions or cults, anti war, violence spree, muslim ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, former yugoslavia
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 6.9
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Mirush (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, sentimental
Plot: hidden identity, parents and children, starting over, hopes, family relations, haunted by the past, juvenile delinquent, immigrant, father, youth, refugee, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kosovo, former yugoslavia
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The Melon Route (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: refugee, survival, life is a bitch, political unrest, danger, escapades, immigrant, illegal immigration, post war, rescue from drowning, illegal immigrant, river ...
Time: 21st century
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia, croatia
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For Ever Mozart (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France. ...
Style: experimental, serious, realistic, contemplative, avant garde
Plot: dancing, battles, politics, filmmaking, anti war, artists and showbiz, war, performer's life, audition, limousine, school, guilt ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: europe, bosnia, france, vichy, former yugoslavia ...
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Guardian of the Frontier (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Slovenia, Germany, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A canoe trip down the river Kolpa becomes a journey of discovery for three female students.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, queer horror ...
Plot: woman in danger, obsessive quest, best friend, friendship, teenage life, culture clash, danger, betrayal, escapades, youth, vigilantism, woods ...
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia, europe, slovenia
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The House of Sand (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Style: sentimental, serious, psychological, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: desert, survival, parents and children, pregnancy, isolation, starting over, homecoming, village life, mother daughter relationship, stranded, widow, farm ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america, europe, former yugoslavia
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Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.
Style: black and white, sex comedy, experimental, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: circus, love triangle, hypnosis, machinery, black, drinking, engineer, love, factory, sexual content, couples, family relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: belgrade, balkan, eastern europe, serbia, former yugoslavia ...
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Cheese and Jam (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, clever
Plot: unemployment, couples, social misfits, human nature, society, rivalry, social differences, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, illegal immigration, down on your luck, female nudity, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovenia, former yugoslavia, europe
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The Other Side of the Street (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: murder, couple relations, obsession, life is a bitch, terminal illness, murder witness, love and romance, fall in love, amateur detective, aging, elderly, investigation ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, former yugoslavia, europe
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Home for Christmas (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Adapted from a series of short stories by Norwegian author Levi Henriksen, Bent Hamers Home for Christmas weaves together the lives of people struggling to find their way home on a Christmas Eve, beneath the colors of the Northern Lights. The plot ...
Style: touching, semi serious, emotional, humorous, non-linear ...
Plot: christmas, friendship, hopes, small town, human nature, unfulfillment, loneliness, multiple storylines, xmas, christmas season, lgbt, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, former yugoslavia
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Scotland, PA (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, talky, witty ...
Plot: shakespeare, murder, eccentricity, disorder, law enforcement, nothing goes right, couple relations, goofy hero, police detective, farce, comedy of errors, business venture ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2001
Place: pennsylvania, nova scotia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia
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The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Style: gothic, parody, scary, funny, humorous ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, vampire slayer, countryside, snow, winter, rescue, nothing goes right, danger, imaginary, castle, undead ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 19th century, 1800s, 60s
Place: europe, eastern europe, transylvania, former yugoslavia
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Beyond the Door III (1989)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly traps to become sacrifices to Satan. One co-ed is a virgin, the main key to bring Satan back to life. But can the co-ed ...
Style: scary, serious, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: witchcraft, train, college, railway, serial killer, witchery, supernatural, virginity, satanist, religions or cults, village, countryside ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, former yugoslavia, serbia, los angeles, balkan
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Interview (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.
Style: psychological, disturbing, melancholic, talky, stylized ...
Plot: journalism, manipulation, actress, secrets, depression, character study, interview, videotaping, loser, dialogue, betrayal, deal ...
Time: year 2007
Place: washington d.c., usa, europe, new york, former yugoslavia ...
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Broken English (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at a restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: culture clash, interracial relations, dysfunctional family, sex, violence, interracial romance, hospital, wine, chase, erotica, migration, interracial ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new zealand, europe, former yugoslavia, oceania, bosnia herzegovina
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Zone of the Dead (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Serbia, Italy, Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Zone of the Dead, also known as Apocalypse of the Dead (Zona Mrtvih in Serbian) is a 2009 Serbian horror film. A police-escorted prisoner transport supervised by Interpol sets off to Belgrade. The route leads the transport through Pancevo, where ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural, chaos, survival, gory, living dead, escapades, danger, interpol, undead, police station, night of the living dead ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: serbia, chernobyl, former yugoslavia, europe
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September 11 (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, USA, Iran
Duration: 134 min.
Story: 11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
Style: disturbing, stylized, talky, intellectual, factual ...
Plot: terrorism, war on terror, 9/11, politics, justice, skyscraper, state affairs, danger, innocence lost, life is a bitch, injustice, love affair ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s
Place: middle east, usa, new york, iran, europe ...
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The Perfect Circle (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come ...
Style: islamic, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, bosnian war, balkan war, anti war, drug addiction, yugoslav war, feeling, humanism, deaf, anarchist, snow, children in wartime ...
Time: 90s
Place: bosnia, iraq, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia ...
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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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The Hunting Party (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative ...
Style: intense, emotional, serious, talky, tense ...
Plot: journalism, journalist, cia, spy, war crime, civil war, revenge, bosnian war, danger, war, friendship, vacation ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 90s, 2000s
Place: bosnia, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe, new york ...
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The Secret Invasion (1964)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: world war two, commando raid, world war, war, friendly fire, man on a mission, tunnel, prison, commando, ira, battles, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, former yugoslavia, balkan, italy, cairo egypt
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Our Music (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jean-Luc Godard's poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven". The first segment is a montage of war images from ...
Style: philosophical, meditative, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Plot: politics, life philosophy, existentialism, self discovery, greed, society, anti war, memory, journalist, poetry, religion, minimalism ...
Time: year 2004, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east, sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia
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Extreme Ops (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, chase, avalanche, skiing, danger, extreme sports, isolation, save the day, leadership, on the run, rescue, rivalry ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: austria, antarctic, europe, former yugoslavia
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Where Eskimos Live (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, tense
Plot: orphan, coming of age, friendship, life is a bitch, survival, hopes, dishonesty, redemption, adoption, boy, youth, boyhood ...
Time: 90s
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia, europe
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Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With ...
Style: suspense, exciting, dramatic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: sniper, military, survival, behind enemy lines, courage, fighter pilot, u.s. navy, war crime, fighter plane, rescue, bosnian war, aviation ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe ...
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Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
Style: captivating, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: soccer, follow your dream, football, ambition, rivalry, young lovers, love and romance, hopes, talented, coach, post war, fan ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia, uruguay, serbia
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Unstoppable (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, unstoppable, antidote, on the run, investigation, law enforcement, special agent, secret agent, working undercover, dishonesty, race against time, master criminal ...
Place: europe, former yugoslavia
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Caged (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious ...
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, captive, captivity, woman in danger, confined, organ trafficking, basement, farmhouse, danger, expedition, kidnapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kosovo, europe, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
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Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, tense ...
Plot: world war two, war, military, survival, nazi, commando, wartime, battles, task force, double agent, spy, world war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1978
Place: former yugoslavia, italy, england
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
Style: disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, serious, sincere ...
Plot: murder, social misfits, misfit, news report, refugee, immigrant, breaking point, down on your luck, minimalism, revolution, teenager, existentialism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: austria, germany, lebanon, bosnia, europe ...
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