Best Croatian drama series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch drama shows from Croatia, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Success

    Success 2019

    Follow the intertwining stories of four strangers who are bound together by a violent event.

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  • Poster for The Silence

    The Silence 2021

    Dramatic events unfold in Croatia and Ukraine. The first girl drowned, the second one died from a drug overdose. The main suspect in these deaths, however, soon turns out to be innocent - and dead too. While detective Vladimir and reporter Stribor struggle to solve these murders in Croatia, the niece of Olga, an Ukrainian philanthropist, goes missing in Kyiv.

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  • Poster for Black-and-White World

    Black-and-White World 2015

    This show is about a time in former Yugoslavia, mostly City of Zagreb at the end of 70' and beginning of 80'. In a dramatic and humorous way it tries to describe a life of this great Yugoslavian era through 3 Generations of people. It's a story of love, family problems with a lot of influence of the Urban Culture and Music scene in Yugoslavia. A time of great music in Yugoslavia such as Rock and New Wave but also somewhat turbulent time right after Tito died.

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  • Poster for SRAM

    SRAM 2024

    The Croatian international remake of Norwegian Skam. Following the lives of teenagers that attend high school, Sram explores everyday issues of teenage life, such as their friendships, romantic relationships and mental health.

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  • Poster for The Paper

    The Paper 2016

    The last independent newsroom in the country is taken over by a construction magnate for the reasons that have nothing to do with love or respect for journalism.

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  • Poster for The Diary of the Great Perica

    The Diary of the Great Perica 2021

    A sequel to One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (1970) set in 1964.

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  • Poster for The Outsiders

    The Outsiders 2022

    17 year old Noah arrives to Croatia, where his mother was sent for work. We follow him endeavoring on the journey of integration into new society, through the subplots of love and friendship.

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  • Poster for The Last Socialist Artefact

    The Last Socialist Artefact 2021

    A businessman and an engineer arrive in a small town to restore an abandoned factory and manufacture a discontinued turbine for a mysterious client.

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  • Poster for Whichever Way the Ball Bounces

    Whichever Way the Ball Bounces 2014

    This show is located in the picturesque Oštrovac, a village on the edge of the national park. Katarina, Tomislav and Krešo will get a million euros from his grandfather - but only if they spend a year in his ruined house in Oštrovac. Otherwise, the money belongs to the locals.

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  • Poster for Čista ljubav

    Čista ljubav 2017

    Series follow a complicated love story in which main characters' love comes to a test because of Sonja's life dilemmas.

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  • Poster for Godparents

    Godparents 2022

    The plot of the series takes us to Zaglav, the road to the remote area divides Zaglav into two opposing camps, on one side is the Macan family, newly rich and guest workers, and two opposing camps. All three families are connected by a godfather and interest will clash in the race for money and decide the fate of the place.

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  • Poster for Missing

    Missing 2020

    Six Croatian soldiers are left behind enemy lines, cut from the rest of their unit. Far from the main conflict, they are trying to find a way home, witnessing the life they left behind them, but also reflecting about the future that awaits them once they return.

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  • Poster for Blood Is Thicker Than Water

    Blood Is Thicker Than Water 0

    TV series focused on exploring the problems in life of ordinary families in Croatia.

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  • Poster for The Horvats

    The Horvats 2015

    This fun family TV comedy set in the capital of Croatia, Zagreb where Stjepan and Lila who are high school sweethearts, both divorced, accidentaly run into each other after twenty years. Eventually, they get married and Lila moves with her two daughters to Stjepan's house.

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  • Poster for Sjene prošlosti

    Sjene prošlosti 2024

    Marta, Paula, Ana and Olga are four friends who live the lives of typical high school girls, but when Marta decides it's time to dethrone Olga from her throne of popularity, she prepares a cruel prank for her and their friendship falls apart, changing Olga's life forever. Twenty years later, Olga returns to their lives and the paths of the four former friends intertwine again.

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  • The General 2019

    TV show about general Ante Gotovina.

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  • Poster for The Best Years

    The Best Years 2009

    Lorena, a modern city girl, is sent to the countryside after a sequence of unforeseen and tragic events. The sale of the family estate she inherited from her late mother in her will marks the start of her journey to Dragošje, a small village in Slavonia. She initially planned to sell the house, but she ends up staying in the village.

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  • Poster for Lara's Choice

    Lara's Choice 2011

    Larin izbor is a Croatian telenovela created by Jelena Popović Volarić and written by Tomislav Hrpka. The series premiered on September 4, 2011 on Nova TV. It has been sold to over seventeen countries worldwide.

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  • Poster for Villa Maria

    Villa Maria 2004

    The first-ever Croatian soap opera which follows the lives of three bourgeois families that are tied together, but even more separated by the money, love, passion and betrayal.

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  • Tito 2010

    Chronicles the life of Josip Broz Tito from his birth to his death.

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  • Poster for Don't Give Up, Nina

    Don't Give Up, Nina 2007

    Nina Brlek is a kind, intelligent, naive young woman. She grows up in Zagreb with her parents Vlado and Mira and her brother Davor. Brlek has excellent grades and perfect curriculum, but fails to find a good job because of her looks. She tries to get a job at H-Moda, a fashion company directed by Victor Glowatzky, who plans to retire, and pass his business to his son, David. This news is bad for David's nemesis Petar Vidic, who is the main editor of H-Moda's magazine Helena and his lover Monika. He is also Barbara Vidic's brother, David's fiance.Barbara hires her recently divorced friend, Patricija Vuckovic, who is pretty but not intelligent enough for the job of David's secretary. Barbara wants Patricija keeps an eye on David, who is a famous bachelor and womanizer. Nina gains the job of David's confidant secretary.

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  • Poster for Ours and Yours

    Ours and Yours 2000

    While expecting their child, a student couple announce to their parents that they will marry. Both sets of parents are against it, but when the proposal takes place, the things take unexpected turn.

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  • Poster for Wind Rose

    Wind Rose 2011

    Ruža vjetrova, often abbreviated to RV, is a Croatian television soap opera. The show was created by Dinko Paleka and first broadcast on RTL Televizija on 29 August 2011. Ruža vjetrova is an original idea made by Dinko Paleka, a project that he was working on for over 3 years. It is about the lives and loves of both young and older characters in Split. The focus is on the old-fashioned Matošić family, wealthy Odak family and the middle-class Jelavić family. The soap was renewed for a second season, which introduced new characters.

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  • Poster for SUMMER 2019

    SUMMER 2019 2019

    Four classmates go on a vacation that, once they arrive, derails in every way imaginable.

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  • Stormy Silence 1997

    The series focuses on the Croatian struggle for independence, dating as far back as 1895.

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