When Father Was Away on Business

100%

91%

anti-communism

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous, years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974

German

7.6

♡ 5

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Walter Steiner as Self

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Force 10 from Navarone

1978

English

6.4

♡ 29

68%

56%

Action

based on novel or book

Guy Hamilton Director

Harrison Ford as Barnsby

Harry Fielder as German

Leslie Schofield as Interrogation Officer 1

Barbara Bach as Maritza

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

1971

Serbo-croatian

6.6

♡ 8

Dusan Makavejev Director

Milan Jelic as

Milena Dravic as Milena

Jim Buckley as Self

Betty Dodson as Self

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.

The Weight of Chains

2010

English

8.1

♡ 5

66%

Boris Malagurski Director

Boris Malagurski as Narrator

John Perkins as Self

Vlade Divac as Self

Branislav Lecic as Self

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 European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice.

Gus

1976

English

5.7

♡ 1

57%

Vincent McEveety Director

Kenneth Tobey as Asst. Warden

David Armstrong as Coach

Ronnie Schell as Joe Barnsdale

Milton Frome as Lukom

The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.

Black Cat, White Cat

1998

Serbian

8.0

♡ 22

grandparent grandchild relationship

gypsy

parent child relationship

Romance

sibling relationship

yugoslavia

Emir Kusturica Director

Zdena Hurtocakova as Black Obelisk

Srdjan Todorovic as Dadan Karambolo

Branka Katic as Ida

Predrag Manojlovic as Priest

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.

The Secret Life of Words

2005

English

7.4

♡ 14

71%

Isabel Coixet Director

Tim Robbins as Josef

Daniel Mays as Martin

Danny Cunningham as Scott

Eddie Marsan as Victor

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

The Sex of Angels

1968

Italian

5.1

♡ 4

Ugo Liberatore Director

Silvana Bacci as

Giovanni Petrucci as Luca

Rosemary Dexter as Nancy

Doris Kunstmann as Nora

Three young women steal a yacht and kidnap a total stranger, who they plan to spend a weekend with having sex and doing LSD.

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964

English

6.4

♡ 12

57%

husband wife relationship

Anthony Asquith Director

Ingrid Bergman as Gerda Millett

George Roderick as Italian waiter

Roland Culver as Norwood

Alain Delon as Stefano

One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.

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When Father Was Away on Business

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

Force 10 from Navarone

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

The Weight of Chains

Gus

Black Cat, White Cat

The Secret Life of Words

The Sex of Angels

The Yellow Rolls-Royce