This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. Read More »
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My Beautiful Country (2012) Michaela Kezele, Zrinka Cvitesic, Misel Maticevic, Andrija Nikcevic
Kosovo, 1999. As the civil war between Serbs and Albanians rages, hatred has replaced tolerance, and towns are brutally divided along ethnic lines. Read More »
Fine Dead Girls (2002) Dalibor Matanic, Olga Pakalovic, Nina Violic, Kresimir Mikic
A lesbian couple rents an apartment in a seemingly normal building which happens to be populated with all kinds of freaks. Read More »
The Last Will (2001) Zoran Sudar, Goran Visnjic, Alison Heruth-Waterbury, Stefan Lysenko
Bartul Burt Marinkovich, a Croatian emigree-turned millionaire, dies and unexpectedly leaves his millions not to his beautiful young wife Read More »
A Stranger (2013) Bobo Jelcic, Bogdan Diklic, Nada Djurevska, Ivana Roscic
When Slavko’s old friend Djulaga dies, Slavko feels obliged to go to the funeral. Read More »
Inferno (2014) Vinko Moderndorfer, Jozica Avbelj, Ludvik Bagari, Silvo Bozic, Drama
Tragedy doesn’t come any more Dickensian in tone or Shakespearian in scope than this dark social drama of the disintegration of a little family of four. Read More »
Projekcije / Projections (2013) Zrinko Ogresta, Jasna Bilusic, Polona Juh, Vladimir Jurc, Drama
Goran (2016) Nevio Marasovic, Franjo Dijak, Natasa Janjic, Goran Bogdan, Drama, Thriller
Goran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have their own agendas and dreams which threaten his carefree existence. Read More »
Chico (2001) Ibolya Fekete, Sasa Anocic, Gyula Bodrogi, András Fésös, War, Drama
The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
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Snivaj, zlato moje / Sleep Sweet, My Darling (2005) Neven Hitrec, Ljubomir Kerekes, Ivan Glowatzky, Ines Bojanic, Comedy, Drama
This sentimental comedy, in turn delightfully amusing and tragicomical, tells a tale of a working-class neighborhood in Zagreb during a ten-year period after the end of the Second World War. It is a story of people who rely on humor and song to survive their anxious times, preserving their traditions and their way of life despite the tumultuous upheavals that surround them. A range of colorful characters create a unique microcosm of an old-fashioned way of life, in which it is as natural to burst into song as it is to talk, creating a film which at times resembles a musical.
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