Best award winning movies with wasted potential from Yugoslavia

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with wasted potential from Yugoslavia! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with wasted potential from Yugoslavia, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971)

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.

Info

1971-09-15 | Drama / History

Cast

Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #225 for
    blasphemous
  2. Ranked #828 for
    bawdy
  3. Ranked #1688 for
    proof positive

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2 How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots (1983)

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

Info

1983-07-05 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Danilo "Bata" Stojković, Svetislav 'Bule' Goncić

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5325 for
    freak show
  2. Ranked #7291 for
    carny ride
  3. Ranked #11088 for
    wasted potential

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3 Great Transport (1983)

This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.

Info

1983-07-04 | War / Drama

Cast

James Franciscus, Steve Railsback

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #11182 for
    wasted potential
  2. Ranked #13890 for
    technical feat
  3. Ranked #21216 for
    weak

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4 Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals.

Info

1981-04-10 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Slavko Štimac, Slobodan Aligrudić

Rating

rating icon 7.436
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #900 for
    foster father
  2. Ranked #1502 for
    neo-realism
  3. Ranked #1605 for
    cantankerous

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5 Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)

In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

Info

1996-05-11 | Drama / War

Cast

Dragan Bjelogrlić, Nikola Kojo

Rating

rating icon 8.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #145 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #410 for
    waggish
  3. Ranked #485 for
    freak show

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6 Man Is Not a Bird (1965)

A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.

Info

1965-03-06 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Milena Dravić, Janez Vrhovec

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #434 for
    freak show
  2. Ranked #543 for
    grease monkey
  3. Ranked #1439 for
    neo-realism

Trailer

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7 Premeditated Murder (1995)

Men, 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 Bogdan, 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), Bogdan recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls.

Info

1995-11-15 | Drama

Cast

Branka Katić, Nebojša Glogovac

Rating

rating icon 8.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1723 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #2491 for
    American Gothic
  3. Ranked #4328 for
    stuck up character

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8 The Fragrance of Wild Flowers (1977)

A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.

Info

1977-12-28 | Drama

Cast

Ljuba Tadić, Aleksandar Berček

Rating

rating icon 5.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #6231 for
    ennobled characters
  2. Ranked #7276 for
    bated breath
  3. Ranked #7956 for
    jubilant character

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9 Sugar Water (1983)

Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject herself under nose surgery. Her best friend begins to observe her from different point of view.

Info

1983-12-18 | Comedy

Cast

Sonja Savić, Svetislav 'Bule' Goncić

Rating

rating icon 3.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4598 for
    non-professional cast
  2. Ranked #5050 for
    embarrassing cast
  3. Ranked #5637 for
    bit muddled

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10 Variola Vera (1982)

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.

Info

1982-07-09 | Drama / History

Cast

Rade Šerbedžija, Erland Josephson

Rating

rating icon 7.13
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2341 for
    for pandemic era
  2. Ranked #2681 for
    with daddy issue
  3. Ranked #2905 for
    impelling and reinforcing

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