Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "breakup-of-yugoslavia"

1. Underground (1995)

Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.

Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac

Votes: 61,270 | Gross: $0.17M

2. No Man's Land (I) (2001)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.

Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis

Votes: 48,837 | Gross: $1.06M

3. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)

115 min | Drama, History, War

During the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature.

Director: Srdjan Dragojevic | Stars: Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic, Zoran Cvijanovic

Votes: 17,767

4. How the War Started on My Island (1996)

97 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Although 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... See full summary »

Director: Vinko Bresan | Stars: Vlatko Dulic, Ljubomir Kerekes, Ivan Brkic, Predrag 'Predjo' Vusovic

Votes: 2,924

5. Remake (2003)

Approved | 108 min | Drama, History, War

The parallel coming-of-age stories of a father living in Sarajevo during World War II and his son living through the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.

Director: Dino Mustafic | Stars: Ermin Bravo, Aleksandar Seksan, Ermin Sijamija, Dejan Acimovic

Votes: 1,058 | Gross: $41.87M

6. The Border Post (2006)

94 min | Comedy, Drama

A small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only ... See full summary »

Director: Rajko Grlic | Stars: Toni Gojanovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Verica Nedeska

Votes: 6,676

7. The Death of Yugoslavia (1995–1996)

50 min | Documentary, History

This captivate documentary covers the struggles of the Yugoslavian people during the collapse of their country, and the subsequent wars to finally find hope with the signing of the Final Peace Accords.

Stars: Robin Ellis, Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman, Borisav Jovic

Votes: 1,291

8. Outsider (I) (1997)

100 min | Drama

Yugoslavia before Tito's death. A young guy born to a mixed marriage (Slovenian - Bosnian) trying to find himself and fit in society, falls in love with Slovenian woman.

Director: Andrej Kosak | Stars: Davor Janjic, Zijah Sokolovic, Nina Ivanic, Uros Potocnik

Votes: 1,232

9. Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)

88 min | Documentary, History

Explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.

Director: Ziga Virc | Stars: Slavoj Zizek, Josip Broz Tito, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson

Votes: 3,651

10. Hotel Jugoslavija (2017)

78 min | Documentary, History

A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija

Director: Nicolas Wagnières | Stars: Slobodan Milosevic, Boris Tadic, Josip Broz Tito, Nicolas Wagnières

Votes: 171

11. Men Don't Cry (2017)

98 min | Drama

Bosnia and Herzegovina, fifteen years after the war. A group of middle-aged Yugoslav War veterans gather in a remote mountain hotel for an extended group-therapy session that unravels the complexities of their pasts.

Director: Alen Drljevic | Stars: Boris Isakovic, Leon Lucev, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Sebastian Cavazza

Votes: 896

12. Cirkus Columbia (2010)

Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A story set in the former Yugoslavia and centered on a guy who returns to Herzegovina from Germany with plenty of cash and hopes for a good new life.

Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mira Furlan, Boris Ler, Jelena Stupljanin

Votes: 2,656 | Gross: $0.00M

13. The Weight of Chains (2010)

Not Rated | 125 min | Documentary, History, News

The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Malagurski | Stars: Rade Aleksic, James Bissett, John Bosnitch, Michel Chossudovsky

Votes: 4,539

14. Cinema Komunisto (2010)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History

When history has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn't invent a country to fool themselves? The collapsing sets of Tito's Hollywood of the East take us on a journey ... See full summary »

Director: Mila Turajlic | Stars: Stevan Petrovic, Veljko Despotovic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Dragisa Djokic

Votes: 705

15. Deserter (1992)

109 min | Drama, Romance, War

During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some ... See full summary »

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic | Stars: Rados Bajic, Rade Serbedzija, Milena Pavlovic, Hristina Popovic

Votes: 171

16. NDH (2021)

48 min | Documentary, History, War

A 12-episode documentary series about the Independent State of Croatia.

Stars: Hrvoje Klasic, Rory Yeomans, Viseslav Aralica, Goran Hutinec

Votes: 52

17. Serbian Epics (1992 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary, War

In this documentary, set in Bosnia during the war, Pawlikowski steers clear of the usual cliches of war reporting. He takes on a more anthropological perspective relying not on commentary ... See full summary »

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Radovan Karadzic, Momcilo Krajisnik, Eduard Limonov, Ratko Mladic

Votes: 201

18. Veillées d'armes (1994)

Not Rated | 224 min | Documentary, War

We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists ... See full summary »

Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Christiane Amanpour, Paul Amar, Sergio Apollonio, Isabelle Baillancourt

Votes: 116

19. Patria (2015)

110 min | Drama

A movie about sinners and their quest for salvation. But God is hard to find.

Director: Oleg Novkovic | Stars: Nada Sargin, Vuk Kostic, Marta Bjelica, Nebojsa Glogovac

Votes: 192

20. Yugoslavia at War, 1941-1945 (1992)

70 min | Documentary, History

Yugoslavia at War, 1941-1945 is a 26-episode documentary series first broadcast in the early 1990s. The series includes participants and eyewitnesses from the war, as well as notable ... See full summary »

Stars: Milovan Djilas, Vladimir Velebit, Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia, Manfred Messerschmidt

Votes: 10

21. Serbie, année zéro (2001)

80 min | Documentary, History

How the rise of Yugoslav and Serbian autocrat Slobodan Milosevic irreparably ruined both the country and its people, and what made the people support him in the first place.

Director: Goran Markovic | Stars: Goran Markovic, Rade Markovic, Dragana Martinovic, Veran Matic

Votes: 90

22. Decko kojem se zurilo (2002 Video)

52 min | Documentary

This film is an intimate story about a filmmaker searching for her brother gone missing in 1991 during the war in Croatia. In a way, it is a "sequel" to her grandmother's story: her husband... See full summary »

Director: Biljana Cakic-Veselic

Votes: 31

23. The Year After Dayton (1997)

204 min | Documentary, War

In the first year after the war in Bosnia, Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows several people in their personal aftermaths.

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Stars: Amra Arslanagic, Ermina Avdic, Salkuna Avdic, Nikola Bobornik

Votes: 29

24. Vukovar - poslednji rez (2006)

103 min | Documentary

We believe that the historical distance of fifteen years is large enough to allow us to make an important, investigative documentary tied to the most painful point of this region. It is ... See full summary »

Director: Janko Baljak

Votes: 38

25. The Fall of the Krajina (2007)

103 min | Documentary

The documentary gives an impression of the war in the Krajina, as well as the political and military details of its fall and the subsequent exodus of the Serbian population.

Director: Filip Svarm

Votes: 28

26. The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode: Tinderbox Yugoslavia (2021)

Documentary, History, War

We begin with the search for traces in Yugoslavia's prehistory. Under the influence of changing rulers and empires, the country's structure is formed over centuries as home to five ... See full summary »

Stars: Misha Glenny, Marie-Janine Calic, Herfried Münkler, James Gow

27. The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode: A State Falls Apart (2021)

Documentary, History, War

We are in the fateful year of Yugoslavia's first free elections since World War II: 1990. It is the hour of the nationalists, and the collapse of the multi-ethnic state is only a matter of ... See full summary »

Stars: Vjekoslav Skrinjar, Marie-Janine Calic, Laura Silber, James Gow