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- DirectorBranko IvandaStarsNiksa KuseljZrinka CvitesicGoran GrgicThe movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsMerima IsakovicBogoljub PetrovicKrunoslav SaricA beautiful young woman lives with her husband in a rocky Montenegrin terrain. The different people who travel by their house share their fates with them, thus generating the evil inside her, and destroying her view of marriage as an idyllic process.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsSavina GersakDragan NikolicBoro BegovicA well-meaning man tries to convince the inhabitants of a small village who are busy gossiping about the new girl in the village to support his plan to build a tunnel that would connect their village to the sea. Things go horribly wrong.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsMira FurlanMilutin 'Mima' KaradzicPetar BozovicA conservative couple decides to leave their rural community and the wife reluctantly takes a job at a naturist resort. Soon their conservative lifestyle starts colliding with the unconventional one.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsLjubisa SamardzicJirí PrýmekSavina GersakTraveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.
- StarsDrago MalovicLjiljana KonticLjiljana KrsticThe comic adventures of a Montenegrin family that live in an isolated village high in the mountains, eternally waiting for their son to come back from his studies in Munich.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsMiodrag KrivokapicPetar BozovicSavina GersakIn a industrial town, one business firm stands out with good management. Thanks to agile director Todor's successful policy of "world breakthrough," the whole town looks forward to progress and incredibly quick prosperity in 1966. The director's driver Milutin is the center of absurdly-dramatic relations in which base manipulation dominates. His lonely, consequent, and reasonable admiration for Todor's honesty and goodwill bring him into situations to which he can't and won't adapt, nor will he quit.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsAlain NouryDragana MrkicBoro BegovicTwo interlocking themes arise from this story: the theme of love, and that of man's eternal submission to traditional symbols. Director Zivko Nikolic continues his movie saga of human nature. Both themes develop the mythical idea of temptation. It is basic human relation: from the intimate to the families' vying with each other.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicIt's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsZoran CvijanovicSlobodan 'Boda' NinkovicDragan BjelogrlicMade for New Year's Eve program, "Two Hours of Quality Program" exceeded all expectations becoming more than just a small TV movie. Using black humor as its sharp weapon, it dealt with ongoing chaos in the country and introducing of new values to the urban culture.
- DirectorDarko BajicStarsDragan BjelogrlicAnica DobraSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicIn a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsBajram SeverdzanSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicBranka KaticMatko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilena PavlovicBranka KaticAngel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsTasko NacicNikola SimicSrdjan SaperA mentally-disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a killer.
- DirectorZdravko SotraStarsDragan NikolicNikola DjurickoKatarina ZuticDuring 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authorities ever.
- DirectorMilos RadovicStarsLazar RistovskiBranka KaticSimon LyndonA half-mad patriot who shot Avax from the roof of his house captures its American pilot during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. The hostage gets romantically involved with his sister while unsuccessfully trying to escape.
- StarsVladimir-Cobi SavcicGoran SultanovicZivojin 'Zika' MilenkovicIn a fictional tavern located in a tiny UN demilitarized zone, during the Bosnian war, spies from all three warring sides are waiting for a foreign spy with a secret weapon that will bring victory to the side that obtains it.
- DirectorMiroslav TerzicStarsGordan KicicUliks FehmiuRade SerbedzijaIt has been years since the war ended. A young deputy prosecutor, Dusan, handling the investigation of war crimes, is assigned to investigate the formation of a paramilitary group. Quickly he comes to learn that this is a branch of the "First Pioneer's", a group which was operating on the battlefields in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, after which they disappeared without a trace. Dusan is determined to bring the case to a positive resolution in order to show his father, a famous retired law professor and to his boss, a senior war crimes prosecutor, that he is capable of the job. For Dusan, this becomes much more than a simple case; it becomes a matter of personal confrontation and conviction. No one expects the investigation will come too much and Dusan's associates feel he's destined to fail, until Dusan finds the unit's only surviving soldier, Micun, who is hiding from his past and trying to live peacefully and quietly. The encounter of Dusan and Micun changes their lives in unpredictable ways and directly affects their families and futures.
- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsGordan KicicVuk KosticZorana BecicThe lives of two best friends who work together in a mortuary changes upside down when they answer a call over a cell phone found in the pocket of a fresh body.
- DirectorMilorad MilinkovicStarsNikola DjurickoSonja KolacaricTara ManicTwo brothers, Lemi and Kiza, having spent all their money, try to relocate their dead grandfather from Belgrade to Vrsac at the lowest cost, but he goes missing along the way.
- DirectorUros StojanovicStarsKatarina RadivojevicSonja KolacaricStefan KapicicStory of two sisters that grew up in a small Serbian village in the beginning of the 1930s. The village is torn up by wars and years long blood oath. There are no men left in the village. Our heroines, Ognjenka and Mala Boginja decide to go to the city, kidnap men and return life to their village. The lights of the metropolis dazzle them and there starts this little amusing and sentimental adventure.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsMirjana KaranovicLuna Zimic MijovicLeon LucevA woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsSlavko StimacSlobodan AligrudicLjiljana BlagojevicA young man's personality is shaped, involving some weird happenings around.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsYul BrynnerHardy KrügerFranco NeroWorld War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
- DirectorMilorad MilinkovicStarsVojin CetkovicTamara GarbajsZijah SokolovicA comic look at the Serbian criminal milieu, shown as a bunch of rude and primitive members deeply involved in organized crime that has its roots in their schooldays' friendship.
- DirectorPredrag AntonijevicStarsDennis QuaidNastassja KinskiPascal RollinA hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsNikola KojoDragan Petrovic-PeleBogdan DiklicA man awakens from a two-month-long coma with total amnesia and sets out to discover the truth about his identity.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicBranko DjuricNatasa Janjic MedancicMLADEN (44) Belgrade born, is a timeshare salesman at Croatian Holiday resort. He is having an affair with his colleague, SONJA (40), who is married to METOD (50) the chief sales manager who learns about his wife's infidelity. He assigns Mladen the toughest client - Omer, a Bosnian war veteran, who doesn't try to hide his aversion to Mladen. Everything becomes hopeless when Omer's three year old son Svendy falls over the edge of the hotel terrace and ends up in a hospital. Grim mood that prevails among the potential buyers is about to ruin the sales. Sonja and Metod blackmail Mladen to continue the sales at the hospital while Omer and his wife are waiting for their son's operation.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsTihomir StanicBranka KaticDusan PlavsicOur story takes place at the end of the 1960s. This is the time of the collapse of the ideals of a more just and honorable life brought into prominence by students worldwide in the great rebellion in 1968 and of the beginning of the end of an equally grand illusion called Yugoslavia. Andjelko is the principal of a middle school in a small Bosnian place Dubica. He believes in Yugoslavia and worships its leader Josip Broz Tito. Andjelko, however, has one serious fault: he is a forger, he makes forged school diplomas. He does not do this out of self-interest, but because he is a staunch philanthropist. One day, a neighbor for whom Andjelko forged the leather-working school diploma, in order to take revenge on the local veterinarian, reports to the police that this one too has Andjelko's diploma. Our hero is, therefore, forced to flee to the big city. He lives there illegally, at the harborers of outlaws for whom he once forged diplomas. But one day, Andjelko runs into his schoolmate Suljo, who is a member of the National security. Suljo arrests Andjelko and this one ends up in jail.
- DirectorMiroslav MomcilovicStarsBranislav TrifunovicNikola VujovicMilos TimotijevicEveryday lives of people in Belgrade who are obsessed with their weaknesses and led by their passions. Seven independent stories on 7 deadly sins are told in a comical tone.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsVuk KosticSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicPaulina ManovIgor Gordic was an Olympic Champion in shooting, but now he is a junkie without money and in debts to mafia. Sasa is his younger brother and he is getting ready for the next World Championship. Pressured by hard life in Serbia in the aftermath of the war and disheartened by apparent utter lack of justice and structure in the society, being at an everyday mercy of the mafia, Sasa decides to take justice in his own hands and puts his sharpshooting in practice on the streets of Belgrade, though the toll such action takes on one's psyche and conscience becomes apparent all too soon.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsTihomir StanicJelena DjokicDragan NikolicYear 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsBogdan DiklicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicPavle VuisicThe Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsNebojsa GlogovacNatasa NinkovicAnica DobraA couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicVladislava MilosavljevicMladen BudiscakTomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.
- StarsBranko CvejicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicOlivera MarkovicBane Bumbar is growing up in Stara Karaburma neighbourhood with his parents Sreta and Olja, his half-sister Seka Stajn (his mother's child form a previous marriage) and his maternal grandmother Elvira. His circle of friends includes characters such as Miki Rubiroza, Glupi Uke, Boca Combe, as well as his off-and-on girlfriend Goca. Occasionally narrated by Bane and other characters from a distance of 10-15 years, each one of 10 episodes depicts a different year from 1960 to 1969, inclusive, with Bane's various endeavours, concerns, education, love life, etc. taking center stage during each particular episode.
- DirectorSrdjan KaranovicStarsBranko CvejicAleksandar BercekPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicA story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth. And about men turning into what they should be ashamed of, during one drunken night.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDragan BjelogrlicNikola KojoDragan MaksimovicDuring 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.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilos SamolovHristina PopovicA homophobic Serbian gangster is forced to make a deal with wedding planner gay activist, to assemble a team which will protect the upcoming Pride Parade in Belgrade, and in exchange his fiancée can get her dream wedding.
- DirectorDusan KovacevicStarsBora TodorovicBranislav LecicNatasa NinkovicAfter the collapse of the Yugoslavian government, a former secret agent, now a taxi driver, enters the office of a former university professor, now a firm director.
- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsAleksandar StojkovicVuk KosticTihomir StanicSerbian soldiers discover a man locked in a basement at the end of the war. After he is freed, people start disappearing.
- DirectorBoro DraskovicStarsMirjana JokovicBoris IsakovicSvetlana BojkovicThis movie describes the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnicly mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphore.
- DirectorBoro DraskovicStarsRade SerbedzijaDragan NikolicSonja SavicSick of the system he works in, an engineer stops the train in the middle of nowhere. The passengers decide to spend time in a local cafe, where their arguments lead to violence.
- DirectorGorcin StojanovicStarsBranka KaticNebojsa GlogovacAna SofrenovicMen, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogden, a young soldier recovering from war wounds. He helps her with her grandmother's story, a tragic triangle involving her effete and well-educated husband and an uneducated major, a Chekist who has, perhaps, the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmother's friend. As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather (the Chekist or the husband), Bogden recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls.
- DirectorJovan AcinStarsGala VidenovicRelja BasicNebojsa BakocevicIn 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.