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- DirectorDusan VukoticSimple story about the man who comes to the beach and uses inflatable objects for all of his needs.Croatian Oscar winner
- DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsBoris BuzancicDjurdja IvezicAntun VrdoljakA bus and a truck are destined to collide with each other on a highway. Their passengers go on about their lives without knowing what will happen.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsFrano LasicMilan StrljicTanja PoberznikThree young men - a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew - are the best of friends in pre-World War II Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Germans and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of terror and gruesome massacres. The friends must now take different sides in a global conflict.
- DirectorKresimir GolikStarsFranjo MajeticMirjana BohanecRelja BasicThe story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, but wants to marry off the aunt. After a couple of invitations to their Zagreb home, the father becomes aware of Fulir's passes at his wife...
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsDino DvornikMladen VulicCoolioDuring last two hours of the year, the three stories are happening in the dark and deserted streets of coastal town of Split, separated from the wild New Year's Eve parties.
- DirectorMate ReljaStarsSlavko StimacGordana InkretZeljko MalcicOne class of school children from a small village make the trip to Zagreb. Teacher gets sick and the class is forced to go home without him. During their journey the train gets stuck in a snowstorm.
- DirectorVladimir TadejStarsMladen VasaryPredrag VukovicBerislav KokotA group of village children decide to secretly renovate the old mill, in order to have fun and a place to spend the summer vacation.
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsAlen LivericMustafa NadarevicBiserka IpsaIvan, a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War, discovers a dark family secret, which fundamentally changes his life he now wants to end.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsRene BitorajacNatasa Janjic MedancicLeon LucevA medical horror of corrupt gynecologists and true events from Croatian hospitals that will shock the public.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsBert SotlarLila AndresZlatko LukmanA partisan comes secretly to town to find about what happened to his little son who barely remembers him. He is horrified when he finds out that his son is raised in a colaborators' orphanage, brought up to hate communists and partisans. He decides to take his son to the freed territory with him, but will he manage to escape the police checkings?
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsBert SotlarVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicMilena DravicThe struggle of the Yugoslav partisans against the Germans.
- DirectorObrad GluscevicStarsSlavko StimacZeljko MataijaIvan StimacA boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal, but the boy is worried about it and he secretly provides the dog with the food.
- DirectorZoran TadicStarsIvica VidovicFabijan SovagovicBozidarka FrajtAfter moving to a new neighborhood, a mysterious man starts introducing his landlord to the hobby of collecting crime statistics.
- DirectorTomislav MrsicStarsSasa AnocicZivko AnocicMatija AntolicEight outsiders are trying to create a theater play while breaking every rule of theater craft.British production company Working Title,the producer of such films as Fargo,Burn After Reading,Billy Elliot and Ana Karenina bought the rights for a remake.
- DirectorDaniel KusanStarsAntonio ParacKristian BonacicNina MiletaAfter a young boy moves from Zeleni vrh to Zagreb, he starts to reveal mysteries about his new house. Soon Koko and his friend, Zlatko, are deep into their investigation...
- DirectorMilan BlazekovicStarsIvan GudeljevicMaja RozmanTarik FilipovicFed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.
- DirectorMilan BlazekovicDoro Vlado HreljanovicStarsJosip MarottiVili MatulaLjubo KaporA painter who can temporarily talk to the creatures of an enchanted forest must help them stop the evil Cactus King, who's building an army of magical living weapons and machines to turn the forest into a wasteland perfect for the cacti.
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsAlma PricaOlga PakalovicMijo JurisicIn order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsRene BitorajacFranjo DijakRobert UgrinaFour friends from the neighborhood grapple with maintaining their relationships amid the challenges of alcohol, drugs, hooliganism, crime, and the shadows of their country's history.
- DirectorBranko IvandaStarsKlara NakaTamy HosierZrinka CvitesicIt's inspiring true story about two thirteen year old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theater venues, they weer praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian 'Pathe' and Berlin's UFA... During the Nazi persecution of Jews and later German nationals' flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.
- CreatorDario VinceKoraljka MestrovicGoran RukavinaStarsJudita FrankovicDragan DespotLuka DragicLucija Car, a young journalist, stubles upon a prison cemetery full of mysteries, when she does a reportage of that prison.Lionsgate studio,the producer of such movies as Hunger Games,Twilight Saga and The Expendables and of tv shows such as Mad Mad,Weeds and Nurse Jackie recently purchased the rights and wants to remake this show.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsMirjana NikolicPetar BozovicSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicA young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsKresimir MikicNiksa ButijerMarija SkaricicA young priest gets an idea to pierce condoms before they are sold in order to increase the birth rate of his island.French producers bought the rights for a remake.Sacha Baron Cohen is attached with the project.
- DirectorIgor MirkovicStarsAna KaricRadko PolicRenata UlmanskiSeventy-year-old teenagers running away from home. They are not running away from their parents, they are running away from the inevitable.
- DirectorAldo TardozziStarsIskra JirsakNika MiskovicZivko AnocicTwo 17 year old girls Lana & Irena meet in the unlikely place of a toilet in a nightclub bonding a friendship due to blood stain which could get both into serious trouble with the police.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsKresimir MikicMei SunLeon LucevThe 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.
- DirectorKristijan MilicStarsFilip SovagovicVelibor TopicSlaven KnezovicIn 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 partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsVesna BojanicJosip ZappalortoNada KasapicIn order to gather information about high-ranking collaborationist official, the resistance movement is sending one girl to spy on him. She uses the cover of illiterate chambermaid from the country. In the beginning nobody is suspicious, but her cover would be endangered when the official's daughter starts to teach her reading.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsFabijan SovagovicFilip SovagovicKrunoslav SaricThe story begins in a small rural village in Slavonia,Ladimirevci in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Benos, who is enlisted in the German army. Sima doesn't want to let his son fight for the wrong side any more, and doesn't want to give him to the Partisans either, so he hides him in his attic for the time being. The story is interwoven with episodes of Sima trying to muster a beautiful stallion - Sokol - who only answers to his son Benos and clearly doesn't like his old man.
- DirectorAnte BabajaStarsManca KosirVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicFabijan SovagovicBeautiful 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.
- StarsIvica ZadroDamir SabanMario MirkovicThe adventures of a numerous family Vragec, who live in a fictitious suburban settlement in Croatia's capital Zagreb.
- DirectorBobo JelcicStarsBogdan DiklicNada DjurevskaIvana RoscicWhen Slavko's old friend Djulaga dies, Slavko feels obliged to go to the funeral. But in his hometown of Mostar, in Bosnia & Herzegovina, this simple social obligation has the potential to get him into all kinds of trouble: with his neighbors or even with local political bigwigs. Yet if he does not go, his wife will think he's a coward, the grieving family will never forgive him - and he might have trouble forgiving himself. This is a compelling tale of everyday life in a fractured society, and a world where paranoia, comedy and drama co-exist. It is also an astute psychological portrait of a man who is forced to cross the invisible line that divides two communities. Above all, it is the story of a man who lost everything that defined him, when his country disintegrated.
- StarsHrvoje KeckesRene BitorajacMila ElegovicA comedy about five young adults who happen to live in the same building and gather in a pub called "Bitange i princeze".
- CreatorMiljenko SmojeStarsAsja KisicMirko VojkovicKarlo BulicA life in a small coastal town in Dalmatia, Croatia, seen through the prism of the local chronicler-amateur and his writings, during the periods before and after WW2.
- DirectorAntonio NuicStarsNebojsa GlogovacNatasa Janjic MedancicRoko RoglicIt is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro knew that his brother was wounded, but when he sees him after many years, he discovers that the brother will spend the rest of his life in wheel chair. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he doesn't speak at all to his father Pako, whom he blames for his mother's death. In two weeks in August 1995, Boro will solve the years long dispute with his father, he will learn to be a better husband and a father.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsKresimir MikicAreta CurkovicIvo GregurevicA godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum for or against the EU. Our characters couldn't care less - they are absorbed in their problems. The young football player who accidentally killed his mother doesn't want to join a rich foreign football team and is willing to risk his father's love because of it. The lonely fat girl is so desperate for a friend and for a lover that she will end up seeking both in the pig-sty. The miser peasant will find out that the real misery is in loneliness.
- DirectorIvan-Goran VitezStarsVili MatulaHana HegedusicLjubisa SavanovicThe employees of a Croatian marketing agency are forced by their new boss to go on a team building weekend in the forests. Nothing turn out as expected, and the employees find themselves desperately battling each other as well as an unknown threat to their lives.
- DirectorHrvoje HribarStarsZrinka CvitesicLeon LucevIvo GregurevicA 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 rough landscape, about a woman who falls in love with a local priest. He is not blind to her love, but is unable to choose between the church and her, until the circumstances force him to make his choice.
- DirectorGoran DevicZvonimir JuricStarsIvo GregurevicKresimir MikicFranjo DijakLooking for the enemy, they found it where nobody expected - in themselves.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsVlatko DulicLjubomir KerekesIvan BrkicAlthough being one of the first movies to take humoristic approach towards violent break-up of Yugoslavia, this motion picture is partly based on real events that took place in September of 1991. Few months after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, Federal military installations are still present with previously recruited Croatian boys trapped inside. One such installation is a garrison on a small Dalmatian island, commanded by Major Aleksa Milosavljevic. Besieged by local militia, Major Aleksa threatens to blow up ammunition depots with half an island in case of any hostile action. During the stalemate, art historian Blaz Gajski comes from Zagreb in order to rescue his son from the barracks.
- DirectorUna GunjakStarsIman AlibalicEsma AlicMirela LambicAs a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to.
- DirectorOgnjen SvilicicStarsEmir HadzihafizbegovicJasna ZalicaHrvoje VladisavljevicAfter their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsDrazen KuhnLinda BegonjaIlija IvezicStipan is a policeman who comes to small Adriatic island off the Croatian coast in order to investigate reported strange phenomena that had frightened the whole population. At first, nobody wants to co-operate with him, but he finally finds that the island is being allegedly haunted by the ghost of Josip Broz Tito, Communist leader of former Yugoslavia. For Luka, the mayor, this is the opportunity to turn entire island into Tito-themed amusement park. Tito's WW2 veterans, on the other hand, don't believe in ghosts; for them, the apparition is actually Tito himself, who had returned in order to lead them into a new revolution which would restore Communism.
- DirectorDamir CucicStarsMate GulinMilivoj BeaderFather and son review the problems in their communication that have been accumulating in years. The son cannot get rid of fears that his life is being a true copy of his father's projections of his future, so he shoots a video letter with his amateur camera in which he tries to make his father look bad and present the evidences that would indicate how he became a much better person than him.
- DirectorIrena SkoricStarsAna MajhenicFrano MaskovicJelena PercinAn Croatian erotic anthology of seven short stories directed by Irena Skoric, all revolving around sex and relationships. Five of the stories following the intimacies of straight couples, where the 6th and 7th stories revolve around a lesbian couple and a gay couple.
- DirectorDanilo SerbedzijaStarsRade SerbedzijaKresimir MikicBogdan DiklicA 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 up with a cunning plan.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsOlga PakalovicNina ViolicKresimir MikicA lesbian couple rents an apartment in a seemingly normal building which happens to be populated with all kinds of freaks. Initially kind but unaware of their secret, a landlady tries to introduce one of them to his son, but after spying on them through the keyhole, the Pandora's box of hatred and violence has been opened.
- DirectorTomislav RadicStarsAnja Sovagovic-DespotIvo GregurevicBoris SvrtanIva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping everything around her, recording a series of events surrounding her birthday celebration on her first tape. These ninety minutes form the film What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003.
- DirectorNeven HitrecStarsLjubomir KerekesLucija SerbedzijaIvo GregurevicIn a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsFabijan SovagovicAdem CejvanJagoda KaloperSmall village in mountains of Dalmatinska Zagora is under total control of Andrija, local Party official. One day two members of secret police come to the village and everybody knows they are going to arrest somebody, but nobody knows whom.
- DirectorGoran KulenovicStarsIvan HercegIvan DjuricicIvan GlowatzkyThe main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band called When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally. Struja would do anything to gather money to record the album as long as it doesn't involve giving up his rock musician beliefs. However, playing pop songs at weddings seems to be the only way out, and the rest of the bend - Struja's best friend and keyboard player Mario (Ivan Duricic), Deni, a handsome singer and bass player (Ivan Glowatzky) and Zlajfa, an indifferent drummer (Hrvoje Keckes) - are trying to persuade Struja to make a compromise. At the beginning he is very firm and reluctant to give in, but when Anja, the girl he left, announces that she is pregnant with his baby, Struja suddenly realizes that there are bigger issues in life than playing at wedding.
- DirectorStanislav TomicStarsNeven Aljinovic-TotAlen LivericDrazen SivakIt is a movie about survive in war time (WW1 East front). In dark colors, with interesting characters, mixture of ash and sand, puzzle of stories, cynic, precise, harsh, bitter, Rubick cube of times and events.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsDora PolicIvan BrkicMilan StrljicAfter being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes.
- DirectorBranko IstvancicStarsAleksandar BogdanovicNela KocisSlaven KnezovicWhen the Croatian War of Independence ended, Bosnian Croats whose villages had been destroyed in the fighting were forced to relocate. They were rehoused as refugees in the homes of Croatian Serbs who had left Croatia. Now, the Serbian owners are returning and the Croatian residents are facing an uncertain future. Somewhere in this powder keg atmosphere, an old man called Jozo, a Bosnian Croat, disappears without a trace. The police officer Filip, who also lives in a Serbian house, is entrusted with the case. Everyone believes that a returning Serb has murdered Jozo, but Filip launches an in-depth investigation, determined to be unbiased and fair, even though he has his own ghosts from the past to deal with. Through his relationship with his father, Filip tries to understand the real reasons for the old man's disappearance. As the film moves towards its climax, Filip's investigation becomes more and more personal.
- DirectorOgnjen SvilicicStarsDaria Lorenci FlatzFilip RadosVera ZimaMirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her visa expired, Mirjana is coming back to her family in a remote and devastated village. Her family is trying to move on with their lives after the war. They rebuild their house and they are trying to find a new husband for their pregnant daughter. Being patriarchal and devoted to their tradition they believe a woman needs to have a husband and a child has to have a father. Of course, the child and the father have to be of the same nationality. Problems start when Mirjana gives a birth to a boy with Asian features. The family and the neighbors are shocked. Mirjana¡¦s rigid father refuses to accept a grandchild of a different nationality, not to mention the one of a different race! Mirjana and her son are forced to leave. She returns only when her father falls seriously ill and requests to see his grandson before he dies.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsKresimir MikicIvana RoscicIvana KrizmanicA successful but also hedonist young man gets afflicted with HIV by accident, eventually being abandoned by everybody around him. He becomes a problem for society until meeting another unfortunate person like him.
- DirectorLukas NolaStarsTihana LazovicMilan PlestinaLana BaricCan the thread of bad luck, violence and suffering which is braided deeply into the generations of one family be broken? Beba's mother is a woman of poor health and weak character. Beba's father is sullen and violent. Beba's brother is possessive and problematic. Beba's boyfriend is from a correctional institution. Has Beba's daughter any chance to break this vicious circle, has she got any chance to become a beloved, happy person?
- DirectorRobert OrhelStarsEcija OjdanicIva BabicBarbara NolaOne accidental shot will intertwine the destinies of two young women - Anita, an inspector who gets on amazingly in professional and quite well in her private life and Petra, a young woman whose everyday life would surely be simpler if she did not have to take care of her alcoholic mother. The investigation on the accidental shot will intertwine their destinies at a moment when they both find that they are pregnant. A huge turning point in their lives, each in her own world and equally left on their own, these two women will, step by step, become close during the investigation.
- DirectorBiljana Cakic-VeselicStarsKsenija MarinkovicNenad CvetkoHrvoje PercAt the beginning of the war in Croatia, Vjera refuses to leave the ruins of her home on the front line . Her husband flees town while their son goes to battlefield. Working as an interpreter she starts her path of self-discovery.
- DirectorKristijan MilicStarsGoran BogdanAlan KaticMarko CindricIn the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst stationed in that house they would get attacked by rebel Serbs, Serbian Special Forces and the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army, also reffered to as Yugoslavian National Army). Their resistance to the attackers would last 24 hours whilst their fellow combatants would attempt to try and get them out of there. The movie and story is based on true events which happened during the Croatian War of Independence.
- DirectorZvonimir JuricStarsIvo GregurevicMirjana KaranovicIgor KovacThree stories that take place in one night gradually build a bleak picture of Ivo's life.
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsJasna BilusicPolona JuhVladimir JurcA group of trainee therapists come together for their regular group psychotherapy session, but when their normal routine is disrupted, events take an unexpected direction: as their professional masks start to slip, long repressed personal tensions soon bubble to the surface.
- DirectorZdravko MustacStarsDamir KlemenicAnica KovacevicTwo strangers: a man and a woman meet in an elevator. When the elevator gets stuck, irreconcilable differences between two protagonists resurface. What follows is a surreal interplay of passion and dreams and a confrontation that evolves into a ruthless fight for survival.
- DirectorVlatka VorkapicStarsJudita FrankovicGoran BogdanDejan AcimovicA comedy about two people with different world-views, from different places, whose fate, with the help from a bull Garonja (a name given to the black bulls in villages of Croatia), intertwine. Ante (Goran Bogdan) is a peasant from Dalmatian hinterland, a son of an bull fights organizer, and skilled insurance salesman. He is known by his powers of persuasion. At the voting for the Law for animal protection, biggest controversy is considering bull fights. Sonja (Judita Frankovic) is from Zagreb, an inveterate activist fighting for animal rights. In Dalmatian hinterland nobody can understand her attitude. They conclude that Sonja, regardless of the declared intense love of animals, would not dare stand in front of a bull. About Sonja and Anthony , the central pair who in his romantic comedy game going a little farther - a little back, a series of actions is carried out in the style of a wild untamed satire at the expense of local "yellow" media and important institutions such as the Croatian Parliament.
- DirectorJakov SedlarStarsIvan MarevichEna BegovicGoran NavojecThe story about the Bleiburg massacre, seen from a Croatian Home Defenders point of view.