Yugoslav war movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant yugoslav war movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, bleak, rough, emotional and dramatic films and TV shows about / with yugoslav war, bosnian war, civil war, war, genocide, brutality, war on terror, balkan war, military and soldier plots mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as yugoslav war: Comanche Territory (1997), Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996), Shot Through the Heart (1998), Harrison's Flowers (2000), The Forgiveness of Blood (2011), Savior (1998), The Whistleblower (2010), As If I Am Not There (2010), In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), Before the Rain (1994).

List of yugoslav war movies

Comanche Territory (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, bleak, gloomy
Plot: jungle, female journalist, photograph, photojournalism, war zone, photojournalist, yugoslav war, journalism, sexual content, profanity, violent content, media ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: former yugoslavia, europe, bosnia, bosnia herzegovina
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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
Style: social, controversial, manga, intense, realistic ...
Plot: yugoslav war, civil war, bosnian war, ogre, moving, social realism, war on terror, radical, conflict, wartime, badass, genocide ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 80s
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia, eastern europe, europe, bosnia herzegovina ...
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Shot Through the Heart (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Hungary
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: realistic, serious, thought provoking, biting, tense ...
Plot: balkan war, yugoslav war, conflict, war on terror, sibling relationship, best friend, politics, state affairs, society, against humanity, military, soldier ...
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina
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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, serious, psychological ...
Plot: bosnian war, coming of age, depression, support group, haunted by the past, parents and children, life is a bitch, parent child relationship, family relations, single parent, civil war, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia, balkan, croatia, eastern europe ...
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Harrison's Flowers (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last ...
Style: brutal, disturbing, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: genocide, journalism, missing person, violence, murder, photograph, photojournalist, photographer, civil war, blood, battles, vengeance ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 80s, 70s
Place: new jersey, balkan, eastern europe, europe, serbia ...
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The Forgiveness of Blood (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Albania, Denmark, Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After his father and uncle kill a neighbor, an Albanian teen (Tristan Halilaj) finds that his own life may be forfeited in a legal blood feud.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, sincere, rough ...
Plot: isolation, family relations, family feud, social relations, teenage life, disagreement, village, siblings relations, vendetta, life is a bitch, son, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: albania
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 7.2
 12K
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: disturbing, depressing, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, rape, atrocity, redemption, breast feeding, bosnian war, mercenary, ethnic cleansing, hopes, genocide, soldier, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia, europe, serbia, bosnia herzegovina ...
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The Whistleblower (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, 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, intellectual, factual ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: sex trafficking, un, rape, gender, corruption, politics, conspiracy, sex crime, teenage prostitution, investigation, civil war, slavery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2010, 70s ...
Place: bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo, usa, nebraska ...
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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: rape, bosnian war, sex slave, genocide, realism, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, soldier, life turned upside down, strong female presence, gang rape ...
Place: bosnia, sarajevo, balkan, europe, former yugoslavia ...
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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
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: sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: bosnian war, prisoner, forbidden love, rape, soldier, food, sex, muslim, love affair, war, couples, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, europe
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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, erotic, realistic, atmospheric, anthology ...
Plot: love affair, monk, civil war, terrorist, photograph, social commentary, violence, wartime, islam, politics, muslim, murder ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: macedonia, former yugoslavia, london, bosnia, england ...
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 8.2
 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, realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: balkan war, bosnian war, genocide, war crime, propaganda, yugoslav war, ethnic cleansing, war on terror, aid worker, slavery, soldier, military ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: bosnia herzegovina, iraq, former yugoslavia, europe, liverpool ...
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 7.0
 1K
Snow (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The daily hardships of a war-scarred Bosnian village, where all that remains are widows and orphans, are painstakingly documented in this first feature from director Aida Begic. Snow offers insight about the psychological aftereffects of the 1992-95 ...
Style: dramatic, islamic
Plot: bosnian war, holiday, international relations, christmas, winter, world war, yugoslav war, balkan war, village, coffee, guilt, koran ...
Place: bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, balkan, former yugoslavia, eastern europe
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 7.9
 50K
No Man's Land (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Belgium, UK, Slovenia, Switzerland
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: black comedy, sexy, harsh, bleak, political ...
Plot: anti war, politics, soldier, civil war, military, intrigue, bosnian war, satire, un, wartime, dark humor, balkan war ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2001, year 1993, 2000s
Place: bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, serbia, former yugoslavia, 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, tough heroes, justice, working undercover, state affairs, rivalry, government agency, race against time, save the day, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., bosnia, south africa, latin america, africa ...
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Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get ...
Style: disturbing, harsh, political, heartbreaking, brutal ...
Plot: journalism, bosnian war, civil war, journalist, adoption, orphan, genocide, family relations, morality, military, anti war, rescue ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, year 1992
Place: bosnia, england, former yugoslavia, sarajevo, 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: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, intense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: sniper, military, behind enemy lines, survival, courage, fighter pilot, combat, u.s. navy, reconnaissance, war crime, fighter plane, rescue ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, 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, bleak, emotional ...
Plot: nude young male, boy, coming of age, bosnian war, balkan war, anti war, drug addiction, child, brother brother relationship, feeling, anarchist, humanism ...
Time: 90s
Place: bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, iraq, balkan ...
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 7.1
 16K
Code Unknown (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' ...
Style: sincere, thought provoking, cerebral, cynical, intellectual ...
Plot: alienation, social differences, life is a bitch, society, misfit, breaking point, social decay, homeless, existentialism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, refugee, depression ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century
Place: germany, france, kosovo, europe, africa ...
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 6.0
 66K
The Peacemaker (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a ...
Style: suspense, exciting, political thriller, neo noir, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: terrorism, military, nuclear explosion, nuclear bomb, train crash, chase, conspiracy, revenge, murder, bosnian war, car chase, secret service ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, former yugoslavia, russia, manhattan new york city, 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, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: journalism, journalist, cia, war crime, civil war, bosnian war, revenge, danger, reward, vacation, friendship, genocide ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 90s, 2000s
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia, serbia, europe, new york ...
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