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1980s Croatian-language Movies

Public list by WPS with 41 movies or TV shows/series

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Visitors from the Galaxy(1981)

2.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.

Haloa - The Feast of the Whores(1988)

1h 42min | Drama
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic attraction to each other. After some time, a tension develops between the young man, Meyra and Manfred. Nobody knows Meyra's secret, or her true reason for coming to Hvar.

Directed by Lordan Zafranović - With Neda Arnerić, Stevo Žigon, Dušica Žegarac

Death Diploma(1989)

1h 45min | Thriller, Crime
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Two young bright university graduates start a brilliant career of gangsters.

The Third Key(1983)

1h 18min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A young couple have settled in a new flat. Soon somebody begins watching them and they receive great amounts of money from an unknown sender.

Directed by Zoran Tadić - With Božidar Alić

The Rhythm of Crime(1981)

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Old houses in Zagreb are destroyed in order to build new, bigger blocks. A teacher who lives in one of these houses allows a stranger to share his home with him. The stranger has a fascination with statistics, and claims he can predict crimes based on statistical analyses. When a predicted murder did not occur, the stranger is adamant that the whole town will suffer unless a balance is achieved - and he leaves.

From One Friday to the Next(1985)

1h 31min | Drama

Friday is the day that everyone goes away for the weekend. A bank clerk spends his weekend off a small island with his boat, but the weekend does not run its usual course.

Directed by Antun Vrdoljak - With Boris Dvornik

Cyclops(1982)

2h 18min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

The Red and the Black(1985)

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.

The Glembays(1988)

2h | Drama
3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

The Glembays of Zagreb are a rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, a rebelious son of the family patriarch, is becoming disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family.

Cervantes from the Small Town(1982)

1h 46min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

'Malo Misto' lives its own life, but not far behind the times. Hotel manager Roko Prč strives to organise tourism, so he introduces the first nudist beach. His wife Anđa brings two of her cousins from the Dalmatian hinterland and demands Roko to hire them. One of them, a young man named Ikan, earns the attention of a beautiful Swedish tourist. From Chile to Malo Misto returned Tonči, nicknamed Servantes, of course, without any money. He fell on the back of his hardworking aunt Keka, who even without him has enough problems of her own. Servantes also experiences an unexpected romance.

The Secret of an Old Attic(1984)

2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.

In the Midst of My Days(1988)

1h 25min | Drama

A famous actress dying from cancer sets off to the mountains where she witnesses human misery, yet being fascinated by patients' faith in healing via intercessory from Mother of God.

Directed by Jakov Sedlar - With Milena Zupančič
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Lost Homeland(1980)

1h 38min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.

In the Jaws of Life(1984)

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Two parallel tales about two modern women. One is Štefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who desperately tries to find the man of her dreams. The other story is about a woman director who is making the movie about Štefica and has the same problem.

The Donator(1989)

1h 44min | Drama
2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A war drama about a German officer's search for a priceless art collection.

Angel's Bite(1984)

1h 37min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A lighthouse keeper lives on an isolated island together with his wife, ailing father and retarded sister. News of a serial killer stalking the isolated lighthouses makes him leave in order to hunt him down. In the meantime, the wife meets a mysterious and seductive stranger.

Directed by Lordan Zafranović

I Want to Live(1982)

1h 34min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Deals with the father-son conflict in a farming family. The two never see eye to eye especially over the way the farm is run. The boy opts for a different way of life and also falls in love with a dumb girl to the horror of his family.

Anticasanova(1985)

1h 33min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interrupted when a pretty young woman moves into an apartment on the upper floor. With the help of his friend Stipe, Mirko tries to seduce the aspiring singer - but their plans don't work out as expected.

The Orchid Villa(1988)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Successful writer (Boris), accompanied with his fiancé, returns to place where he grew up in hope to find inspiration for new book. But memories are somewhat distracting, especially those of an old love...

Sokol Did Not Love Him(1988)

1h 42min | Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia 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 Beneš, 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 Beneš and clearly doesn't like his old man.

King of Endings(1987)

1h 37min | Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Branko Kralj is an alienated businessman and avid chess fan. He is married to the attractive Visnja and they have a son. Their marriage is weak and Branko feels much closer to his mistress than to his wife. One day Kralj and Visnja travel on a half empty train. Kralj goes to a far away compartment for a game of chess, and leaves Visnja alone. Three men take advantage of the lone woman in her compartment and rape her.

Crime at School(1982)

1h 43min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Zlatko Kovač, a provincial professor, gets the job in the big city's school, only to find out that his red-employment is not random. Professor Toth, the man he replaced, has died under the strange circumstances. Kovac meets a variety of strange people in his school's collective, and it was not long before they came up with the new body. However, the police is unable to solve the case, but he takes the matter into his own hands and setting a trap for a murderer on a school manifestation.

Bloodsuckers(1989)

1h 26min | Comedy, Horror

The streets of Zagreb are empty because of a rumored vampire who attacks lonely women. To the office of psychiatrist, Franjo Glogowetz, there arrives a strange visitor, Teobald Majer. He is convinced that he is a vampire from the 16th century, and tells Franz that the members of his family, Glogovac, were famous vampire hunters. Naturally, Franz does not take him seriously but his wife, Barbara, likes the stranger a lot and even believes his story. In the meantime, Franz's two relatives, Jambrek and Jurek, arrive and get caught up in the mess.

Dreaming the Rose(1986)

1h 27min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Valent is a night shift worker who can barely feed his family. To add the insult to injury, every night he must pass near the butcher's shop with meat products he can't afford. But one night the shop is a scene of a gangland shooting. Valent picks up the bag full of money and a gun, and his life changes.

Directed by Zoran Tadić - With Rade Šerbedžija

The Istrian Way(1985)

1h 55min | Drama

An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.

Directed by Vladimir Fulgosi

Promised Land(1986)

2h 1min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.

Marjuca or Death(1987)

1h 37min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The town of Split in the 1930s during Italian occupation. A boy torn between kid's games and sexual awakening finds more about the latter at the nearby whorehouse who works non-stop.

Directed by Vanča Kljaković

Southbound Train(1981)

1h 37min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A power-cut in a great apartment building brings the tennants together.

Directed by Petar Krelja - With Marina Nemet

Evening Bells(1986)

2h 16min | Drama, War
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.

Horvat's Choice(1985)

1h 54min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.

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