Movies and TV shows set in croatia
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in croatia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, tense, captivating, suspense, bleak and disturbing films and TV shows about / with moral ambiguity, murder, death, betrayal, female nudity, sex, friendship, village, cigarette smoking and nude plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and War genres shot in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as croatia: The Weekend Away (2022), All Inclusive (2017), Just Between Us (2010), Broken English (2007), You Carry Me (2015), Love Island (2014), Rooster's Breakfast (2007), The General (2019), The High Sun (2015), Witnesses (2003).
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List of movies set in croatia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When her best friend vanishes during a girls' trip to Croatia, Beth races to figure out what happened. But each clue yields another unsettling deception.
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, disappearance, murder, weekend, girlfriend, mysterious disappearance, victim, murder investigation, accused of murder, woman, vacation gone wrong, investigation ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
croatia, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A trip to Croatia to celebrate Inger's 60th birthday. The whole thing sounded like a great idea until Inger caught her husband having an affair. When the plane takes off for Split the depressed Inger and her two daughters, much too sensible ...
Style:
romantic comedy, sitcom, situational comedy, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, mother daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, sisterhood, family drama, female bonding, midlife crisis, personal growth, betrayal, travel, self discovery, reconciliation ...
Place:
croatia, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Nikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, he doesn't have a clear conscience, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
brother in law sister in law relationship, infidelity, couples, siblings relations, midlife crisis, dishonesty, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, older man younger woman romance, dentist, family relations, urban ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
croatia, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young widow, an aging widower-returnee, and a priest from a bankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with the post-war environment, complete with its prejudices, illusions, and unpleasant mentality. What follows is a romantic comedy set in ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, emotional, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, couples, culture clash, immigrant, village, family relations, village life, society, homecoming, moral dilemma, fall in love, priest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, sweet, light, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
dating, loneliness, friendship, self discovery, looking for love, single, cliche, thirtysomething life, hotel, drinking, coming of age, relationships ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
croatia, paris france, france, new york, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Dora is a neglected girl, who dreams about becoming a football manager. Suddenly, her outlaw father enters her life and they build a close relationship. Ives, a soap opera director, nurses her father who suffers from Alzheimer’s. As she loses him, ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
horny wife, unfaithful wife, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, family relations, father and daughter, family problems, multiple storylines, redemption, relationships, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Place:
croatia, serbia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Croatia, Germany, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Love Island tells the story of a pregnant French woman who lives in Sarajevo with her Bosnian husband and their daughter. They go for a vacation at a Croatian island, where things get complicated when they all become attracted to a beautiful woman.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, pregnancy, couples, hotel, island, family problems, femme fatale, family holiday, family in crisis, crumbling marriage, self discovery, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
croatia, bosnia, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Slovenia, Croatia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After being fired, a young car mechanic Đuro gets recommendation to look for another job in a remote village. His new boss is warm, old fashioned and naive - completely opposite from the world he's coming from. The peaceful atmosphere is ...
Style:
realistic, erotic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
illicit affair, unfaithful wife, infidelity, sex, countryside, fall in love, haunted by the past, friendship, society, ex military, love, boss and employee ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
slovenia, croatia, europe, hungary
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
TV show about general Ante Gotovina.
Style:
realistic, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
military, balkan war, biopic, army, wartime life, military service, military life, army general, military officer, war, wartime, leadership ...
Time:
90s
Place:
croatia, bosnia, balkan
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers – and the enduring strength – of forbidden love.
Style:
anthology, captivating, disturbing, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, community, post war, summer, military, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, bare breasts, brother sister conflict, sex scene, nudity, rural setting ...
Time:
year 1991, year 2011, year 2001
Place:
croatia, serbia, balkan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in pre-World War II Zagreb, the story is seen through the eyes of 6-year-old Perica Šafranek (played by Tomislav Žganec). A dandy from Zagreb, Mr Fulir (played by Relja Bašić), starts flirting with Perica's mother during a family ...
Style:
comedy drama, witty, period piece, social, period drama
Plot:
gender roles, coming of age, bittersweet, literary, marriage, infatuation, flirting, singing
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia, balkan, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black ...
Style:
bleak, tense, serious, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
balkan war, amateur detective, military, soldier, police investigation, murder, danger, investigation, criminal heroes, human nature, anti war, kidnapping ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, croatia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Horror
Country: Croatia
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
In a school full of perverse teachers, where you earn grades by having sex, Nancy is the only honest person. But when she, despite studying a lot, fails her final exam... it’s time for revenge!
Style:
slasher, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
teacher, school, murder, schoolgirl, high school, revenge, vengeance, sex, death, obsession, disguise, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
croatia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, tragicomedy, suspense ...
Plot:
pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, satire, mediterranean, religions or cults, clergy, village life, social relations, disorder, dishonesty, society, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, croatia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Style:
tension, dark, suspense, grim, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, escape, concentration camp, prisoner, survival, oppression, war crime, tragedy, resistance, execution, escape plan, brutality ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Croatia, Slovenia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ivan is a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War. His father, Izidor, was a well-known political prisoner in the former Yugoslavia, and is now standing as an independent ...
Style:
tense, art house, suspenseful, melancholic, tragic
Plot:
war veteran, family secret, nationalism, moral ambiguity, betrayal, father son relationship, identity crisis, social realism, disability, blackmail, small town, corruption ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
croatia, bosnia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Croatia, Ukraine
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Dramatic events unfold in Croatia and Ukraine. The first girl drowned, the second one died from a drug overdose. The main suspect in these deaths, however, soon turns out to be innocent - and dead too. While detective Vladimir and reporter Stribor ...
Style:
detective, dark, suspense, tense, sinister ...
Plot:
human trafficking, investigation, investigative journalism, corruption, female victim, murder, serial killer, ethical dilemma, suspicion, reporter, missing person, police procedural ...
Place:
croatia, ukraine, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
Style:
tense, suspense, period piece, political drama
Plot:
world war two, partisan, resistance movement, escape, betrayal, conspiracy, espionage, political intrigue, moral ambiguity, subterfuge, sacrifice, survival ...
Place:
croatia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Siniša Mesjak, an arrogant and ambitious politician on the rise, finds himself in the middle of a scandal. To hide him from the public, the president appoints him as the commissioner of Croatian government on the furthest settled island Trečić, ...
Style:
comedy drama, satirical, dark comedy, sarcastic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
village life, fish out of water, political scandal, political satire, isolated community, island, social commentary, bureaucracy, culture clash, mediterranean, corruption, character study ...
Place:
croatia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, grim, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, biopic, national identity, historical epic, university student, political intrigue, realism, occupation, fascism, tragedy, moral ambiguity, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, disorder, family problems, unlikely criminals, dull life, life is a bitch, eccentric family, pension, social relations, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
croatia, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film is set over the course of a New Year's Eve night in the Croatian port city of Split, where it follows three parallel plots. The first plot line features a small-time drug dealer Nike (Marinko Prga) and a young widow Marija (Nives ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, neo noir, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
new year, drug abuse, new year's eve, murder, dealer, small town, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, concert, social decay, going straight, addiction ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
croatia, eastern europe, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Embittered widower, Ludvik, spends his nights transporting illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi acts as his helpmate. Together they become a well-trained duo who almost every ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
refugee, friendship, immigrant, widower, van, life is a bitch, working class, criminal, border crossing, smuggling, chess, motorcycle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
balkan, former yugoslavia, italy, slovenia, croatia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
Style:
bleak, poignant, pastoral, period piece, depressing
Plot:
marriage, death, loss, unrequited love, regret, tragic romance, mortality, grief, character study, suffering, bittersweet, mourning ...
Place:
croatia, balkan
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
identity, obsessive quest, problem, conflict, identity crisis, waking up, trauma, quest, freedom, truth, redemption, connection ...
Place:
croatia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Croatia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A TV reporter goes to Vis to film the story about a driving instructor and his student.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, scenic, melancholic, contemplative ...
Plot:
island, character study, slice of life, intimate, journalism, bittersweet, personal growth, relationships, slow burn, road trip, small town, identity ...
Place:
croatia, montenegro, former yugoslavia, serbia, slovenia ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Croatia, Serbia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Miljenko, a successful Croatian businessman, recieves the news that his company had just filed for bancruptcy. Things seem to be looking up, however, when his daughter anounces not only her engagement, but also her pregnancy and upcoming nuptuals. ...
Style:
intercultural, emotional, comedy drama, tense, slapstick comedy
Plot:
wedding, family drama, bankruptcy, culture clash, engagement, pregnancy, international relations, national identity, politics, legacy, family reunited, social class ...
Place:
balkan, croatia, serbia, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Movie follows life of Croatian war hero general Ante Gotovina.
Style:
emotional, tense, inspirational, political thriller, period drama
Plot:
biopic, heroism, legacy, leadership, patriotism, nationalism, courtroom drama, veteran, sexual content, relationships, identity, reconciliation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
croatia, balkan
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, West Germany, USA, France, Croatia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for the Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river ...
Style:
epic, exciting, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, battles, military, war, holocaust, freedom, world war, machine gun, tank, revolutionary war, judaism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, year 1939, year 1944, year 1945 ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia, bosnia, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, art house, suspense ...
Plot:
secret police, wedding, fear, political repression, uncertainty, surveillance, small village, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, black, peasant, rural setting ...
Place:
croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia
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