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Movies: Best Movies in Bosnian(Bosanski jezik)

Bosnian (bosanski / босански, [bɔ̌sanskiː]), sometimes referred to as Bosniak language, is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by ethnic Bosniaks. Bosnian is one of three such varieties considered official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with Croatian and Serbian. It is also an officially recognized minority language in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo. Bosnian uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, with Latin in everyday use. It is notable among the varieties of Serbo-Croatian for a number of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish loanwords, largely due to the language's interaction with those cultures through Islamic ties. Bosnian is based on the most widespread dialect of Serbo-Croatian, Shtokavian, more specifically on Eastern Herzegovinian, which is also the basis of standard Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin varieties. Therefore, the Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins was issued in 2017 in Sarajevo. Until the 1990s, the common language was called Serbo-Croatian and that term is still used in English, along with "Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian" (BCMS), especially in diplomatic circles. ()

Bosnian is spoken in Turkey, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro and 223 movies (between 1972 and 2024) with this language have been recorded so far. Most of these movies were shot in Bosnia and Herzegovina (213). Popular genres for Bosnian movies are Drama (148), Documentary (46) and Comedy (28). Grandpa Comes Back from Germany (2013), Pangaea (2015), 128 (2018), Good Day's Work (2018) and The Pursuit (2006) are among the best known & most successful Bosnian movies.

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Grandpa Comes Back from Germany(2013)

1h 45min | Crime, Thriller, Action

After Zerina's father gets assassinated for knowing too much, the mob starts going after her as well. The only person that can save her now is her long lost grandfather coming back from Germany.

No Man's Land(2001)

1h 38min | Drama, Action, History
3.7/5 (with 191 votes)

Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?

Directed by Danis Tanović - With Branko Đurić, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Šovagović, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri, Mustafa Nadarević, ...
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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams(2006)

1h 30min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Directed by Jasmila Žbanić - With Mirjana Karanović, Luna Mijovic, Leon Lučev, Jasna Beri, Dejan Aćimović, Bogdan Diklić, ...

10 Minutes(2002)

10min | War
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

10 minutes doesn't seem long to a Japanese tourist waiting for some photos in Rome, but a lot can happen in the same 10 minutes for a family in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.

Directed by Ahmed Imamović

Cirkus Columbia(2010)

1h 53min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. After the fall of the communists, Divko Buntić, who has lived in exile in Germany for the past twenty years, returns to the village where he grew up, intent on reclaiming ownership of his family home, driving a swanky Mercedes and accompanied by his young bride; by Bonny, his lucky black cat; and with pockets full of money.

Directed by Danis Tanović - With Miki Manojlović, Mira Furlan, Jelena Stupljanin, Milan Štrljić, Svetislav Goncić, Miralem Zupčević, ...

On the Path(2010)

1h 40min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness...

Directed by Jasmila Žbanić - With Zrinka Cvitešić, Leon Lučev, Mirjana Karanović, Nina Violić, Ermin Bravo, Jasna Beri, ...

Fuse(2003)

1h 45min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Two years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.

Directed by Pjer Žalica - With Enis Bešlagić, Bogdan Diklić, Senad Bašić, Saša Petrović, Emir Hadžihafizbegović
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Death in Sarajevo(2016)

1h 25min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace and understanding is supposed to start from here. But the hotel staff have other worries: having not been paid for months, they are planning to go on strike. Hatidza from the hotel laundry is elected strike leader even though her daughter Lamija, who works in reception, is firmly against industrial action. Meanwhile, in the sealed-off presidential suite, a guest from France rehearses a speech. Elsewhere, a television reporter conducts interviews about war and its consequences. Was Gavrilo Princip, the 1914 assassin, a criminal or a national hero? What long shadow does his deed cast into the present?

Directed by Danis Tanović - With Izudin Bajrović, Jacques Weber, Aleksandar Seksan

Remake(2003)

1h 42min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

This film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo.

Directed by Dino Mustafić - With Ermin Bravo, François Berléand, Dejan Aćimović, Lucija Šerbedžija, Jasna Diklić, Zijah Sokolović, ...

Days and Hours(2004)

1h 33min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car refuses to start, Fuke has to stay over in their house. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbors there.

Directed by Pjer Žalica - With Senad Bašić, Mustafa Nadarević, Semka Sokolović-Bertok, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Jasna Žalica, Nada Djurevska, ...

Children of Sarajevo(2012)

1h 30min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A microcosm of the fathomless suffering that remains more than 16 years since the siege of Sarajevo ended, writer-director Aida Begic’s follow-up to her 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize-winning debut Snow tells the story of two orphaned siblings struggling in a transitional society where only the fittest survive.

Directed by Aida Begić - With Bojan Navojec, Jasna Beri, Nikola Đuričko, Aleksandar Seksan, Velibor Topic

The Abandoned(2010)

1h 25min | Drama
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it describes the consequences of war casualties and immense injustice that war brought most helpless, the children.

Directed by Adis Bakrac - With Mira Furlan, Dragan Marinković, Meto Jovanovski, Zijah Sokolović, Žan Marolt
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It's Hard to Be Nice(2007)

1h 26min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Story about a forty-something Sarajevo taxi driver named Fudo (Saša Petrović) who decides to take control of his own destiny. Fudo doesn't earn much, so he supplements his income by offering tips to the local criminal syndicate and turning a blind eye to their nefarious dealings. One day, after offering a particularly bad bit of advice to a violent gangster, Fudo is badly beaten. When Fudo's wife Azra (Daria Lorenci) discovers what has happened, she decides to take the couple's infant son and move out. Now determined to win his wife back and restore peace in the home, Fudo decides to go straight. But cleaning up his act isn't going to be easy, because after borrowing enough cash from black market dealer Sejo (Emir Hadžihafizbegović) to purchase a van and then refusing to aid him in any underhanded dealings, the only person willing to cut him any slack is the sympathetic Azra.

Directed by Srđan Vuletić - With Saša Petrović, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Zana Marjanović, Daria Lorenci, Senad Bašić, Jasna Žalica, ...

Men Don't Cry(2017)

1h 38min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

The armed conflicts of the 1990s not only visibly destroyed the land of the former Yugoslavia, but also left the deepest wounds in the memory of each of its belligerent nations. There are as many different interpretations of that bleak past as there are countries affected. It is therefore hard to expect absolute harmony when, less than two decades since the war ended, a diverse group of veterans gathers at a remote mountain hotel for a therapy session over several days. On the contrary, such a dangerously volatile situation can suddenly ignite by just one thoughtless word, or a seemingly dirty look. That’s because the former soldiers, obstinately holding on to their fundamental masculinity and their prejudices, refusing to expose the inhumanity of the atrocities perpetrated. However, this quietness is just about to be broken and hidden emotions are to be faced.

Directed by Alen Drljević - With Boris Isaković, Leon Lučev, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Sebastian Cavazza

Baba Vanga(2016)

1h 16min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Memories of the life and visions of the Balkan prophet Baba Vanga, who was predicted the future of human kind and the world up to its end in the year 5079. Baba Vanga, as an older woman, tells how she lost her sight but "began to see". Following an accident, ghosts of dead people came to her to reveal what would happen to the world. Some of her predictions actually happened, some didn't, and for many predictions time will show.

J(2018)

44min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

'J' tells the story of a man who lives an isolated life before encountering a woman that will open up, for a while, his controlled world. In 'J', time is at first an internal condition and, as the story unfolds, the effect of a mysterious mirror, where solitude is a condition of space itself and nearness and love are but a position of an impossible witness. Can space hold all the memories of a life without witnesses?

An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker(2013)

1h 15min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Senada is 31 and she lives in Poljice neighborhood in Lukavac municipality with her partner and two daughters. She is pregnant with her third child for approximately five months. Since she didn’t have health insurance, she does not go to the doctor’s. When she started bleeding, she goes to the hospital. The doctor told Senada that she needs an emergency surgery and she needs to pay 500 EUR. Without a health insurance card and without money, Senada returns home.

Directed by Danis Tanović - With Nazif Mujic

Last Yugoslav Dokumenta(2024)

Documentary

The story of the exhibition that continues to provoke controversies in the former Yugoslavia region, but also a portrait of two artists in a struggle who, in the world of emptiness, still maintain their backbone discipline.

The Tree(2018)

1h 44min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A man, a child, two wars, a river, a tree. A man and a child meet under a tree on a river bank, sharing the same memory and a secret. They find in each other the serenity, the silence and the time they lost in the flowing water of the river.

The Perfect Circle(1997)

1h 50min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.

Directed by Ademir Kenović - With Mustafa Nadarević, Jasna Diklić, Mirela Lambić, Almedin Leleta, Almir Podgorica, Josip Pejaković, ...

Sabina K.(2015)

2h 5min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Sabina, a divorced mother of two small children, falls in love with an old friend from the Bosnian war. The two plan to marry, but things go terribly wrong.

Directed by Cristobal Krusen
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Summer in the Golden Valley(2003)

1h 45min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

At the traditional Muslim funeral service for his father Fikret Varupa, sixteen year old boy from Sarajevo, learns that his father owes money to Hamid, a man he does not even know. The debt is considerable and Hamid does not want it to go to the grave with the body, so the debt automatically passes from the father to the son. Since in Bosnia this way of collecting debts, at a funeral, is considered to be utterly humiliating, it is never, ever applied. Fikret and his entire family become subjects of ridicule. Fikret, who is practically still a child, is decisive to "redeem his father's soul". Wishing to repay his father's debt and to secure the forgiveness, Fikret wanders into the real world of Sarajevo, the world that is ruled by post-war chaos, misery and poverty and becomes an ideal target for two corrupted policemen who wish to "help" him: they plant the kidnapped girl on him.

Directed by Srđan Vuletić - With Svetozar Cvetković, Zana Marjanović, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Miraj Grbić, Senad Bašić

Memories 677(2011)

1h 26min | Documentary

677 concentration camps were set up during the Bosnian war in the early nineties. Bosnian Muslims, Serbs and Croats, the way the victims and the perpetrators within each community deal with this legacy will determine the countrys future. USPOMENE 677 will show you the viewpoint of each ethnic group through a new generation, the sons and daughters of that war, who are struggling to come to terms with their toxic past. USPOMENE 677 is a story of our time. But the time to tell this story is short. Today, in a Bosnia fighting for EU membership yet threatened by possible return to war, the new generations, often in contrast with their parents, are desperate to find a way to live together for a different, peaceful tomorrow. Will they succeed?

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The Curve(2012)

1h 10min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A Bosnian immigrant who fled to Toronto after the civil war returns to his homeland in search of a missing friend who has been implicated in war crimes, in this quietly chilling and finely surreal meditation on confronting traumas of the past. (TIFF)

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales(2013)

1h 12min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. After a night of insomnia in the 'romantic' Hotel Vilina Vlas, Kym discovers what happened there during the war. She can no longer be an ordinary tourist and her life will never be the same again.

Directed by Jasmila Žbanić - With Pamela Rabe

Scream for Me Sarajevo(2018)

1h 35min | Documentary, War
3.8/5 (with 6 votes)

In 1994, Sarajevo was a city under siege. Mortars and rocket propelled grenades rained onto the city, killing indiscriminately, every day. Amongst the madness, two United Nations personnel: a British military officer and another Brit working for the UN Fire Department, decided it would be fun to persuade a global rock star, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, to come and play a gig to the population. Scream for Me Sarajevo brings that story, in all its madness, to the big screen. A story of musicians who risked their lives to play a gig to people who risked their lives to live them.

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What Do I Know(2007)

23min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In and around a house love stories intertwine. One love story leads to another. The ghosts of love are left behind to seek the answers to the same question: "What do I know about love?".

The Dragon(2016)

13min | Animation, Fantasy
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The ancient ritual of the Bosnian Dragon Summoning is threatened by various new beliefs throughout the ages.

128(2018)

Drama

Short film, post-war drama.

Halima's Path(2012)

1h 45min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 6 votes)

In 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.

Directed by Arsen Anton Ostojić - With Alma Prica, Olga Pakalović, Miraj Grbić, Mustafa Nadarević, Daria Lorenci, Slaven Knezović, ...
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