Top 20 movies like Silent Waters
Top 20 Movies like Silent Waters
- 1. A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
- 2. Taiwan Canasta
- 3. Superfluous
- 4. Crows
- 5. Buried Land
- 6. Laush
- 7. It Happened on This Very Day
- 8. Days to Remember
- 9. Mama's Boy
- 10. Orphan
- 11. The Collaborator
- 12. Pangaea
- 13. The Bridge
- 14. Haiduk in Belgrade
- 15. The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus
- 16. Lovers
- 17. No Man's Land
- 18. Regular Trains Station
- 19. Behind Enemy Lines
- 20. Handcuffs
1. A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj)
A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
2. Taiwan Canasta (Тајванска канаста)
A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
3. Superfluous (Прекобројна)
Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena, a girl who as if she were overabundant, followed him to work the labour action. Mikajlo's courtship of Nada provokes laughter and ridicule, so ambitious 'Don Juan' returns to his brigade and the girl.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
4. Crows (Vrane)
A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
5. Buried Land
Buried Land tells the story of ordinary people attempting to realize a dream. Two actors cut a path through the real community and strange reality of Visoko, the small town at the heart of a remarkable claim: the discovery of ancient pyramids, not in Egypt, but central Bosnia. Emir is a Bosnian émigré, removed during the war and now struggling to rediscover his homeland.
6. Laush (Lauš)
A documentary-narrative film which looks at real events and personal phenomena of artist Zarko Lausevic. "Laush" above all tells a story of an evil time we've all been through, represents both sides and is made with empathy and respect towards everyone involved in the tragic incident. Through recreations, narration, memories of colleagues and quotes from the book "A Year Passes, a Day Will Never Pass" which the artist wrote during the hardest stage of his life, the weight of his fate is presented. The aim of this project is to portray the life of brilliant actor, who in the midst of great fame, disappeared from the scene through the cruelty of dubious times.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
7. It Happened on This Very Day (Dogodilo se na današnji dan)
Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different backgrounds and social status, but of similar views about love and self-affirmation, spend their time together. Their friendship is dyed with various events typical for socialism, such as working actions or Youth Day's parade. All what happens within this yard may become an allegory of one generation's destiny.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
8. Days to Remember (Die Verliebten)
They meet in Yugoslavia. Katharina, daughter of a Yugoslavian immigrant worker, has grown up in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is a confident, energetic career woman who has managed to work her way up to become a successful television journalist. She goes to visit her parent's country, to do a story about the children of immigrant workers in their home country. Although she says she doesn´t need a "home" any more, even she feels strange in her own country. Peter is a rather "untypical" sort of man: a dreamer, a thinker. He has given up his steady job as a composer for advertising films and is divorced. He goes to Jugoslavia to find something out about the past. He travels to the places where his father was stationed during the Second World War.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
9. Mama's Boy (Mamaroš)
Middle-aged cinephile and film projectionist Pera still lives with his mother - and best friend - Mara, in Belgrade. It's 1999 and when NATO bombs start raining down on Serbia, the two of them become refugees. After a surreal journey, they end up in New York, where Pera realizes that he can no longer do the old job he loved so much. While he and Mara were struggling to survive, the new age of digital projection was born. Then Pera stumbles upon some discarded projectors and his new mission in life becomes clear: he will travel around and show people the magic of Real Cinema - the magic that can only be created by celluoid, mechanical projectors, the silver screen and flickering light.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
10. Orphan (Siroče)
After her mother's death, a former drug addict Merima is forced to move in with her grandparents to the nearby village. Her city girl attitude and spoiled personality clash with their rural lifestyle. Everything goes wrong when Merima's father Fazil gets out of prison.
11. The Collaborator
During the conflict in the former Yugoslavia many soldiers were convinced to kill fellow citizens including friends and relatives in the name of patriotism. The Kolaborator follows the story of Goran, 24, a promising young soccer player who is forced to become a soldier. Goran goes from being a talented athlete to an executioner virtually overnight. Following orders, Goran lines up civilians, shoots them and drags them into mass graves. Justifying his role as a protector of his people, Goran becomes increasingly detached from the task until his soccer coach and life-long friend, Asim, is led in front of him. As a familiar face stands defeated before him, Goran must reconsider his actions and choose between his own life and that of his dear friend.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
12. Pangaea (Pangaea)
Dementia draws a woman into a world of memory loops, losing her love her spirit, her present her past.
13. The Bridge (Most)
In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
14. Haiduk in Belgrade (Hajduk u Beogradu)
In the 1980s, a boy named Haiduk moves with his family from a small village to the capitol of Yugoslavia, where he's going to start spreading his way of honor and true values.
15. The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus (Bolest i ozdravljenje Bude Brakusa)
The protagonists of this docudrama are old farmers who migrated to Banat after the First World War, in 1922. The film is focused on a couple of important events in their impressive lives, which are woven into lively scenes and stories full of wise instances. Their statements become spontaneous recounts of the lives of people in this region.
16. Lovers
A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
17. No Man's Land (No Man's Land)
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?
It has an average vote of 7.493 on TMDB.
18. Regular Trains Station (Stanica običnih vozova)
In the fifties, a young Belgrade teacher girl, after finishing her school, and by the Ministry of education order, arrives to a remote town to educate people. Unready and inexperienced, she fails in building a bridge between herself and the environment where she was brought against her will, and conflicts start. The conflict with others soon causes the conflict with herself, which causes the tragedy...
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
19. Behind Enemy Lines
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer, Admiral Reigart, decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.
It has an average vote of 6.383 on TMDB.
20. Handcuffs (Lisice)
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.