Movies: Dragan Despot

  • 2015
    National Hero Lily Vidic

    National Hero Lily Vidic (2015)

    National Hero Lily Vidic

    5.22015HD

    This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last r...

    National Hero Lily Vidic
  • 1979
    The Return

    The Return (1979)

    The Return

    4.81979HD

    Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station...

    The Return
  • 2003
    The Horseman

    The Horseman (2003)

    The Horseman

    7.42003HD

    The 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 l...

    The Horseman
  • 1991
    Story from Croatia

    Story from Croatia (1991)

    Story from Croatia

    6.81991HD

    After the breaking of mass movements in 1971., the student Ilija Baric must leave the country because of his political beliefs, and his father Luka lost a job and goes to work to Germany. After Titos death in 1980. there is a new political motion, bu...

    Story from Croatia
  • 2013
    Flower Square

    Flower Square (2013)

    Flower Square

    6.32013HD

    An obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso....

    Flower Square
  • 2012
    Sucks

    Sucks (2012)

    Sucks

    02012HD

    A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella....

    Sucks
  • 2007
    The Recollection Thief

    The Recollection Thief (2007)

    The Recollection Thief

    02007HD

    Approximately a month before the death of the first Croatian president and in the wake of parliamentary elections in December 1999, a diplomat from the Croatian embassy in Paris is reported missing. He is a doctor of French literature who returned fr...

    The Recollection Thief
  • 2005
    Pusca Bistra

    Pusca Bistra (2005)

    Pusca Bistra

    72005HD

    After a series of unfortunate events, TV subscription collector Pero falls into a deep emotional crisis from which he cannot escape. His only goal is - spiritual peace and, if possible - revenge. People he holds responsible are randomly chosen citize...

    Pusca Bistra
  • 2017
    Dead Fish

    Dead Fish (2017)

    Dead Fish

    5.52017HD

    Drama set in a small provincial town in post-war Croatia about 20 locals who try to understand why one of their neighbors killed himself....

    Dead Fish
  • 1993
    When Nobody Is Looking

    When Nobody Is Looking (1993)

    When Nobody Is Looking

    6.51993HD

    A suspicious cop tracks his own wife in this romantic thriller about hypertrophied jealousy....

    When Nobody Is Looking
  • 1987
    The Silk, the Shears

    The Silk, the Shears (1987)

    The Silk, the Shears

    01987HD

    Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite....

    The Silk, the Shears
  • 2024
    The Wrath of God

    The Wrath of God (2024)

    The Wrath of God

    02024HD

    Ilija is a member of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) somewhere in Central Bosnia in late 1993. One morning, after a routine mine laying campaign, he learns his younger brother Goran was killed far beyond enemy lines, together with eight other sold...

    The Wrath of God
  • 1996
    The Seventh Cronicle

    The Seventh Cronicle (1996)

    The Seventh Cronicle

    01996HD

    In former Yugoslavia, following Tito's break-up with Stalin, the rocky island of Goli Otok was the camp site for political prisoners. From that officially non-existant yet dreaded place a young man escapes and seeks refuge on a nearby island. The nun...

    The Seventh Cronicle
  • 2003
    Below the Line

    Below the Line (2003)

    Below the Line

    5.72003HD

    A young man finds himself torn between the love for his girlfriend and his family's hardship....

    Below the Line
  • 2018
    For Good Old Times

    For Good Old Times (2018)

    For Good Old Times

    32018HD

    Two childhood friends face adulthood in different ways. Life is still a game for them – girls, football, parties. But the choices they make will determine the course of their lives and put their friendship to the test. In the Balkans, every generatio...

    For Good Old Times
  • 2001
    Slow Surrender

    Slow Surrender (2001)

    Slow Surrender

    02001HD

    Petar Gorjan is a 40-year-old successful propagandist and cynical strategist of consumerist society that is faced with family and identity crisis. He embarks on a journey from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, transporting humanitarian aid in his off-road vehicle...

    Slow Surrender
  • 2021
    The Age of Uskoks

    The Age of Uskoks (2021)

    The Age of Uskoks

    02021HD

    Feature documentary film on the phenomenon of Uskoks of Senj, legendary corsairs and anti-Osman soldiers from 16th and 17th century....

    The Age of Uskoks