Discover the best of Bosnian cinema, film, and television
Discover the definitive list of popular and critically-acclaimed movies and TV shows from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Find your next binge-watch, streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
The cinema of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian and Herzegovinian cinema is a story of incredible spirit, a film culture forged in conflict and celebrated for its profound humanity and wickedly dark humour. In the years following the war of the 1990s, a generation of astonishingly talented filmmakers emerged to tell their stories to the world. They achieved spectacular success. In 2002, Danis Tanović’s brilliant satire No Man's Land won the Academy Award, a moment of immense national pride that announced the arrival of a major filmmaking force. This was no fluke. Director Jasmila Žbanić would later win the prestigious Golden Bear at Berlin for Grbavica and earn another Oscar nomination for the devastatingly powerful Quo Vadis, Aida?. What makes the nation's cinema so unforgettable is the famous Bosnian wit. It’s an amazing ability to find absurdity and laughter even in the darkest of times, a survival mechanism turned into high art that gives its films a unique and deeply moving flavour. This blend of humour and heart is also the secret to its popular television. The sitcom Lud, zbunjen, normalan (Crazy, Confused, Normal) became a beloved hit not just at home but across the entire Balkan region, proving the universal appeal of its storytelling. It’s a cinema that doesn’t flinch from its past but faces it with courage, intelligence, and an unbreakable spirit.
Best Bosnian series
Crazy, Confused, Normal 2007
Revolves around humorous situations involving three generations of the Fazlinovic family living in a Sarajevo apartment. The oldest of the family is Izet. Izet has a son Faruk, who in turn has a son Damir.
73Morning Changes Everything 2018
Lack of money, inability to find a permanent job, living with parents or roommates, unsettled love relationships — this is how the life of most young people in Serbia could be described. Through the four friends' struggle with the life challenges, the series also tries to evoke the spirit of Belgrade today: it talks about those who live in it, those who leave it, but also those who return to it.
77I Know Your Soul 2023
A single mother of a teenager in the midst of a divorce, Nevena Murtezic struggles to balance her life between her 17-year-old son, Dino, and a job constantly under pressure from politics and the public.
75Bones 2020
The story of two people who, at first glance, are connected only by their name - Kosta. The first, a refugee from Krajina, is trying to survive, while other is peacefully building a career.
80Flesh 2017
Mirko, an average football player at the end of his career, is back in his hometown because of a knee injury. His family owns a restaurant which is on the verge of collapsing, both because of the economic unprofitability, and because of the plans of local criminals who are interested in the plot where the restaurant is located. One of those criminals is Slavko, Mirko's childhood friend, who suddenly returns to his life, just when Mirko needs him the most.
84Skin 2024
The story of a musician, former drug addict and drug dealer named Slobodan Milosevic.
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Best Bosnian movies
Quo Vadis, Aida? 2021
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
78No Man's Land 2001
Two soldiers from opposite sides 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?
77Welcome to Sarajevo 1997
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
67Sieranevada 2016
Back from a professional trip to Paris, a neurologist at the pinnacle of his career has to pick up his wife so that they can attend a family meal to commemorate his father, who died a year before. At his mother's flat, the guests are waiting for the priest to arrive while arguing about all kinds of things connected and unconnected with the world’s events and wars.
71Father 2020
Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.
78Scream for Me Sarajevo 2018
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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