Balkan war movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant balkan war movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, bleak, tense, rough and disturbing films and TV shows about / with balkan war, war, military, bosnian war, murder, civil war, politics, violence, danger and muslim plots mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres shot in Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as balkan war: As If I Am Not There (2010), ZOS: Zone of Separation (2009), Witnesses (2003), Warriors (1999), Savior (1998), The Balkan Line (2019), Snipers Valley (2007), Storm (2009), The Living and the Dead (2007), Shot Through the Heart (1998).
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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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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:
serious, disturbing, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
peace, un, peaceful mission, military life, religions or cults, war, society, anti war, life is a bitch, rivalry, violence spree, muslim ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, former yugoslavia
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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: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
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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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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Genre: Action, War
Country: Russia, Serbia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
1999, Serbia is bombed and Kosovo region is left for plunder by bandits under command of Albanian warlord, Smuk. The removal of the human organs take place within the territories bandits have taken, the robberies, mass assassinations and genocide. ...
Style:
tense, orthodox, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
terrorism, friendship, nato, hopes, politics, swat team, balkan war, civil war, female soldier, hostage, society, muslim ...
Time:
90s
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia, albania, kosovo, bosnia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Kosovo 1999: Two KFOR soldiers save a Serbian woman from the vendetta of an Albanian child and lose their political and emotional distance.
Plot:
balkan war, hot guys, male nudity, ethnic conflict, soldier, new love, rescue, woman, male pubic hair, boy, war crime, redemption ...
Place:
kosovo, germany, albania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate
Style:
political thriller, serious, captivating, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
balkan war, courtroom, courtroom drama, testimony, power relations, rivalry, dedicated lawyer, against humanity, witnessing a crime, haunted by the past, lawyers and clients, war crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, balkan, sarajevo, former yugoslavia, bosnia ...
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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:
bleak, stylized, psychological, islamic, captivating ...
Plot:
military, ghost, supernatural, battles, political unrest, soldier, state affairs, danger, military life, life is a bitch, society, balkan war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1993, year 1943
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, croatia ...
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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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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
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, art house, tear jerker
Plot:
balkan war, family drama, grief, loss, mourning, intimate, nostalgia, slice of life, memory, healing, reconciliation, getting home ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, balkan, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War, Western
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 96 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:
realistic, tense, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
gender bending, hidden identity, love affair, wartime life, life is a bitch, political unrest, state affairs, gays and lesbians, tragic love, love and romance, society, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, balkan, serbia ...
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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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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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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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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A tense drama that revolves around a platoon of Spanish soldiers, following the innocent young men as they step from the training field into a hell for which nothing could have prepared them.
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
politics, terrorism, military, danger, soldier, military life, political unrest, mission, survival, life is a bitch, battles, chaos ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, kosovo, macedonia, europe
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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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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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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A transvestite couple from 1990s Belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission, curbing the urges of rapists, gamblers and horny young men during turbulent periods in war-torn country.
Style:
queer cinema
Plot:
lgbt, bosnian war, male nudity, homosexual, male prostitute, transgender woman, balkan war, lgbtq, transvestism, prostitute, violence, sex ...
Place:
belgrade
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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.
Style:
dark, historical drama, bleak, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
ethnic conflict, identity crisis, nationalism, social realism, alienation, civil war, male nudity, humiliation, life story, bosnian war, balkan war, family drama ...
Time:
90s
Place:
belgrade, balkan, former yugoslavia
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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, erotic, romantic ...
Plot:
power of love, redemption, balkan war, haunted by the past, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, single parent, hopes, sexual harassment, italian soldier, suicide ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
bosnia, balkan, former yugoslavia, sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina ...
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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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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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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: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Haunted by nightmares, con artist Harlan Draka wanders through the war-torn Balkan countryside, making money out of ridding superstitious villagers of imaginary monsters. But after being hired by soldiers who are under attack by actual vampires, ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark fantasy, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
vampire, monster hunter, supernatural horror, supernatural, monster, vampire vs vampire, monster terrorizes city, vampirism, supernatural power, supernatural ability, monster versus monster, vampire hunter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
balkan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Franco, after being fired from his job decides, as compensation for the damage, to steal a bull from his former company.
Style:
road movie, surprise ending
Plot:
bull, unemployment, fired from the job, balkan war, wagon train, economic crisis, breeding, rural setting, family relations, absent husband, on the road, animal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, hungary, croatia
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Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of the Battle of Sutjeska which occurred in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1943.
Style:
mythical, crying, epic
Plot:
world war two, partisan, child, murder, nazi soldier, wound, mountain, parachutist, revolutionary war, rock climbing, balkan war, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the ...
Style:
philosophical, road movie, contemplative, avant garde, devastating ...
Plot:
male nudity, filmmaking, greek, on the road, holy grail, odyssey, symbolism, male pubic hair, marxism, art, love letter, treasure hunt ...
Time:
year 1995
Place:
greece, belgrade serbia, sarajevo, ancient greece, bosnia herzegovina ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1917 Crete, a humble peasant mother raises her orphaned nephew while trying to protect him from an absurd vendetta.
Style:
period piece, melancholic, grim, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
vendetta, motherhood, family drama, protection, revenge, sacrifice, orphan, violence, moral dilemma, social injustice, small town, survival ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917
Place:
crete
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