Best Serbian drama series

A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

Belgrade, 2003. When Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is assassinated, the country plunges into chaos, and the authorities' response is to introduce a state of emergency. A turning point in recent Serbian history through the perspective of a journalist, a police officer, and a criminal.

Besa is a strong promise for the Albanians, which must be maintained, even at the cost of living. It is most often used in the form of blood feuds, which is certainly a suitable ground for the action of the series that is in front of us.

It follows the two lead characters, Svaba and Ekser, as they try to make a living on the streets of Belgrade through the life of petty crime. Making matters worse is the fact that Shvaba owes a lot of money to a local big-shot criminal. And just when things seem lost for the two men, Shvaba's mother inherits a house in Baranda - a village near Belgrade no one's ever heard of. As Shvaba and Ekser happily rush to Baranda, hoping to sell the house and solve all their problems, the villagers are equally happy to see them, thinking that two businessmen from Belgrade are finally taking an interest in their village...

A young member of a gang in Belgrade puts his family in danger when he angers a mafia boss.

The action series begins when the main character, a young police inspector Aleksandar Jakovljevic, despite its problematic behavior, receives an important case - killed the daughter of a prominent man unit whose company is building the largest residential - commercial complex in the region. The investigation goes in that direction, or even torn Aleksandar their problems, nothing leaves the case and digging into every aspect of life of the murdered girl, unaware of the danger which is exposed because someone cares about is to cover up the killing as quickly as possible. Aleksandar tortured and personal pain of the never solved the murder of his father Mileta also a police inspector when he discovers that the murder may be linked both to him solve the murder of a young girl becomes a mission. he don't know who to trust along the way, whether your boss and best friend of his dead father, police chief Marjanovic, Mirko whether colleagues or two women in his life, Mary - the public prosecutor with whom he related, while in his heart does not pick up a young scientist Jelena. While all the risks and desperately searching for the truth, they will not know how it can be really painful.

"Montevideo, Taste of a Dream" is a 2010 Serbian TV series directed by Dragan Bjelogrlić about the events leading to the participation of the Yugoslavia national football team at the first FIFA World Cup in Montevideo, Uruguay in July 1930. The story is loosely based on the novel Montevideo, Bog te video by the prominent Serbian sports journalist Vladimir Stanković. He drew inspiration to write a romanticized depiction of the late 1920s Serbia and the events that popularized the game of football in the country after having watched the American film The Game of Their Lives.

Facing his own past, an investigator unravels the mystery behind three cruel, ritualistic murders.

This is a modern and exciting story about BIA agents in Belgrade who eliminate the most dangerous threats to Serbia behind the eyes of the public on a daily basis and lead the struggle in the labyrinth of domestic and foreign intrigues.

The story takes place around 2001, which follows the last 48 hours of Slobodan Milošević's life together with his family at large until his arrest and subsequent extradition to The Hague.

Sonja Kljun is a young, ambitious detective, eager to prove that her refined intuition is right - the alleged suicide in peaceful Subotica hides far more serious secrets than it seems at first glance. Sonja's moving to Subotica will trigger an avalanche of events that will reveal deeply buried secrets related to the mysterious organization, but also to Sonja's past. Refined intuition is not unique to Sonja, but also to her ten-year-old daughter, whose unusual dreams related to her mother's job are beginning to come true.

The story of fictional Katić family. Vukašin returns home from the studies in France to tell his father Aćim and brother Đorđe that he plans to marry the daughter of his father's political opponent and enemy. Aćim threatens to wipe him out from the will and intricate family relations come to light. Đorđe and his wife have problems, because after 15 years of marriage they still have no children.

The tumultuous life, fantastic career, and volatile relationships of the legendary Yugoslav singer Toma Zdravkovic. The series follows the highs and lows of the famous bohemian and 'king of sorrow' that inspired his unique, timeless music.

Seoski život dve porodice

Someone shoots at Serbian tycoon Vladan Simonovic. This makes Vladan initiate a private investigation that will open up "Pandora's box" with respect to his past and will lead to conflicts linked with the future of his mighty company.

This is a touching love story based on the novel by Mir Jam. The successful and young lawyer, Radmilo, is in love with a beautiful girl from Belgrade - Ljiljana, who he hasn't seen for years. She is in love with another man but, as he reveals that he is not willing to marry her, she accepts Radmilo's marriage proposal just to spite him. On their first wedding night she admits that she loves another and tries to leave the house but Radmilo asks her to give him three months so he could think of a good excuse for them to separate, since he lives in a small place where everyone knows (and talks about) everything. As it happens, during those three months emotions bloomed and what started with a fight continued with affection.

Based on the life of a famous folk singer Aca Lukas, this TV series is mainly concentrated on questions of identity of main character Pedja Kovac. After circumstances his life turns from an ordinary musician into the most popular singer.

Radnja se dešava u Beogradu i u Vojvodini

The clash between the two families in the small town hides a secret kept for decades. It is time to resolve it.

A story of two friends and petty thieves trying to make a living, but failing in every possible try.

Its plot is bound to a specific time of the cathartic end of the World War II in Serbia. The heart of the story is a unique endeavor - the largest single rescue mission of downed Allied airmen in aviation history of all time, known as the “Halyard Mission”.

At the turning point of his life, 20-year-old Aljoša Kovač is trying to strike a balance between the expectations of his father Velja, the ambitions of his mother Mira, his own hard-to-achieve passion for music, and a love that is nearing its inevitable end.

The intertwined lives of numerous characters set in 1990s Belgrade who all try to live happily during rather unhappy times.

Serija "Žigosani u reketu" govori o dvojici nekada nerazdvojnih prijatelja i saigrača u slavnom košarkaškom klubu, koji je danas na rubu propasti, a koji će njih dvojicu spojiti u pokušaju da ga podignu iz pepela.

The story follows several personal fates of male and female cadets from the first good news that they were admitted to the Military Academy, through a collision with the reality of military life, to establishing a balance between effort and love of their young lives.

A tense psychological drama based on police reports depicts the work and lives of members of the negotiating group of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Serbia, whose work takes place on the border between life and death

The eight-episode series follows the life of the writer Ivo Andrić during several months in the fall and winter of 1961, from the moment he found out he had won the Nobel Prize until he returned from the award ceremony, via Switzerland, to Belgrade. Each of the episodes has two parallel streams of narration: one, related to the year 1961, in which we follow Andrić's preparations for going to Stockholm, and the second, a subjective jump back to the past. Andrić's view of the key moments of his own life, which were almost always the key moments of the country where he lived and lives, the encounters and decisions he made, is full of questioning, doubts and re-evaluation. Through eight episodes, the most important, well-known and less well-known, paths that Andrić walked, the faces that surrounded him and the places where he lived during the winter of 1961 and throughout his life are revealed and followed.

Two best friends and former basketball players are trying to re-establish their once successful basketball club.

"Na Terapiji" is consisted of 5 patient's cases including the psychiatrist himself.The series is made on a franchise "Be Tipul", originally written in Israel, later purchased and rewritten by HBO.

The main character – philosophy professor Radomir Pavlovic is at the peak of his power when he sets out on that journey – young enough and yet not old enough to understand everything that will befall him on that journey.

The series reveals details of the upbringing of the famous Serbian singer Džej Ramadanovski and his journey to success and fame.

Bogdan Dragović has returned from emigration, trying, for the sake of his son Vladimir, to re-establish ties with the Communist Party from which he was expelled as a Trotskyist.

Ranjeni orao was a Serbian television show produced in 2008 and aired on RTS1 during late 2008 and early 2009. The 17 episode series is based on the 1936 novel "Ranjeni orao" by Serbian author Mir Jam. The show had unprecedented success with the last episode averaging over 3 million viewers, making it the most watched Serbian television series ever made.

The series is based in a small village between Big, South and East Morava. Despite its comedy the show displays a deep emotional connection between family, tradition and the land. The village is at the heart of the show, often displaying how things are changing in Serbian villages and how these rural communities are quickly disappearing due to the exodus of young people from the country to the city.The show emphasises that the village is the heart of Serbian culture and pride, a place where humanity has outlasted many challenges. The show further emphasises the finest qualities of the Serbian people such as honesty and kindness and aims to break down the tarnished stereotypical view of Serbian people crafted during the 1990s.

Story of forbidden love between Serbian guy and German girl in Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. Story begins in 1940's, just as war broke out and then goes threw this turbulent period to the 1960's, showing what was happening in Novi Sad. Germans have to fleed back to Germany, everything changed, but love remained

This is the story of a young, talented football player with a problematic temperament, who already in his youth, because of his talent, becomes the target of several interest groups.

This is a modern and exciting story about BIA agents who, far from the eyes of the public, daily remove the most dangerous threats to Serbia and fight in a labyrinth of domestic and foreign intrigues. The heroes are young people pressed by the burden of enormous responsibility, largely derived from the broad powers that their position carries. The main character is Lazar, a young rising agent who is trying to find a balance between family and business life. When great danger looms over Serbia, and when he no longer knows whom to rely on, Lazar realizes that he will have to make a great sacrifice and work outside the rules in order to save his fellow citizens, his family and himself.

Follow heroes who are on the threshold of middle age, focusing on that moment of their lives when their "youth" and all the illusions they clung to finally give way to decisions and obligations that require maturity.

Petar Maras, the Belgrade drug lord, is in conflict with Red, the powerful state curator of the Serbian criminal world.

A story that follows three generations of a rich Serbian Christian family in the 19th century in the north of the then Ottoman Empire in the city of Vranje, who are fighting for survival through various moral crises, facing decline. Forbidden love, intrigue, murder, arranged marriages, revenge, friendship and enmity between Serbs, Albanians and Turks and the endangered position of women at that time

A complicated tangle of crimes. A female police inspector accidentally uncovers the connection between the state, the service and crime. A man who tries to prove that his brother is not guilty of the murder everyone claims he committed.

A legal suspense-drama based on high profile crimes that took place in the former Yugoslavia between 1955-1975. Each episode searches for both truth and motives from the perspective of the defense attorney who immerse themselves inside the mind, lives and relationships of each protagonist.

Our story opens with a myth that every year seven people end up in the sea, because the sea is the beginning and the end of everything, it is the source of life and of survival, therefore a human sacrifice must be presented to it, willingly or unwillingly. The story is set in a place connecting present times and the past, the characters present and those disappeared, the living and the dead. Myths and legends determine the lives of the characters of the series "Debt to the Sea" in a specific way, and their interconnected complex destinies are told in a mystic atmosphere. Is the legend about the sea taking human offerings true? Are only the two stones with the same sign carved in them to be blamed for all the events, or are the reasons hidden among people and their secrets?

The action of the series was placed in the romantic thirties of the twentieth century and speaks of the impossible love between Miroslav Balsic, the poor young man from the province, and Milena Novakovic, the rich successor to the bank's director. This series, together with the "Wounded Eagle" and "The Sorrow of Her Mother," is a kind of trilogy created by the novels of well-known Serbian writer Milica Jakovljevic, Mir-Jam, and realized by the same authorial team. According to the motives of her novel, the script was written by Zdravko Šotra.Miroslav Balsic (Ivan Bosiljcic) is an unemployed graduate lawyer who sings at bars because of his inability to find a job in the profession. Although he completely lost hope of getting a job, one day he will receive a letter in which a bank manager from the province invites him to be a teacher to his son who has problems at school and who offers him permanent employment in the profession if he returns his son to the right path .However, Miloslav falls in love with the daughter of a banker, beautiful Milena Novakovic (Sloboda Micaljovic-Cetkovic) ...

When a teenager disappears in the rough blocks of New Belgrade, his twin sister, ignored by the confused parents and the inefficient police, starts a search of her own.

The family of the rich businessman Vuk Tomovic from Subotica hides many secrets, but Vera, a single mother of two sons from Negotinska Krajina, also lives in fear that her secrets will not be revealed.

U septembru 1930. godine državna klasna lutrija Kraljevine Jugoslavije objavila je da je izvučena srećka sa glavnom novčanom nagradom Turističke lutrije u iznosu od milion dinara, koji odlaze srećnom dobitniku u Palanci, gradiću u unutrašnjosti Srbije. Prestolonaslednik Petar, kao pokrovitelj Jadranske straže koja je pokrenula Turističku lutriju, lično je čestitao nepoznatom dobitniku i pozvao ga da preuzme nagradu u sedištu Državne klasne lutrije.Pitanje je samo ko je dobitnik. To pitanje iznenada će okrenuti naglavačke miran i spokojan život u Palanci. Doskora su njeni građani razmišljali samo o predstojećim izborima za gradonačelnika, na kojima će birati između dvojice kandidata koji su jednu privatnu svađu pretvorili u političko nadmetanje, ali je sve to, iznenadna pojava lutrije, bacila u drugi plan.

The 2020 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a seven part mini-series. A middle-aged former criminal has little time to live due to cancer, so he gets to see his son after 5 years to spend his last week with him and teach him the principles he considers important in life.

Ravna Gora tells story of events after April War 1941. Serbia with accent on the Chetnic-Partisan conflict, at the beginning of World War II

Historical drama television miniseries which depicts events that led to the May Overthrow and assassination of last Serbian king from house of Obrenović, Alexander and his wife Draga.

A powerful lyrical story about the sergeant of the former Yugoslav Army Zika Kurjak, from childhood in miners' home, through military days, to severe depression, imprisonment and the metropolitan madness. Kurjak, the personification of human kindness, who is impaired and disturbed, as an old and ornate in the hospital, speaks in detail about his life. Through this searing story of sergeant Zika Kurjak and his life, some of the crucial historical circumstances of the 20th century are being blunted, as well as the fate of the heroic Serbian army, which becomes part of the new system after unification, and which the system is gently destroying leaving individuals individually fighting for it and prevent inevitable decay.

The series covers the period from the entry of King Alexander into liberated Belgrade after the end of the First World War until the assassination in Marseilles.

At the heart of the intriguing, entertaining, but at times difficult, tragicomic story is the Popović couple, behind whom 25 years of marriage have entered driven by student love and youthful enthusiasm, eager to succeed in a trivial society where anything is allowed. There was status, career and money.

Yugoslavia, 1979. Jugoslav is an ambitious reporter in a country that strictly controls the media. Blagoje is a colonel of UDBA before retirement, broken by health problems. Their paths cross when a brutal murder shakes a town in Serbia. They both go to investigate the case, for different reasons.

This is the story about the investigation and trial following the Sarajevo assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, which triggered the First World War. The courtroom drama is seen through the eyes of young attorney Rudolf Zistler, one of the attorneys appointed by the court to defend the 24 accused members of Young Bosnia and assassin Gavrilo Princip. Rudolf Zistler, the forgotten hero of this historic trial, was the only one who really defended the accused, in spite of the threats, and facing a danger of being lynched by Austrian officers. According to his own conscience, and skill, he bravely proved that the accusation for high treason was not legally valid, by proving that Bosnia was not legally part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, but just an occupied territory.

Trials and tribulations of a Jewish family from Sarajevo during turbulent times between 1914 and 1945.

The modern theater is preparing for the premiere of the long-awaited play that was a huge success in the mid-1980s. However, as the entire ensemble eagerly awaits the big night, they begin to receive anonymous threats. In order to solve the case, Svetlana Sorga, an experienced inspector of the Belgrade Police Department, begins the investigation. On the night of the premiere, a famous actor dies on stage while performing a suicide scene within the play. As Inspector Sorga digs deeper into the case, she becomes both intrigued and frightened by the strange world hidden behind the theater's curtains. Despite the challenges she faces, Sorga is determined to uncover the truth and determine whether the actor's death was an accident, suicide or murder.

A modest Serbian girl from the 1930s loses both her parents in a year. She gets abducted by a beautiful stranger who forces her to marry him. For her he remains a mystery she is trying to solve throughout the series which is based on the novel of the same name my Mir-Jam.

The WWI is the focus of the tetralogy novel "Time of Death". It paints a broad picture of time, events, and human fates. Other than members of the Katic family, many historical individuals are among the primary heroes.

"Preziveti Beograd" tells a story about young people and their desires, about newcomers and locals in Belgrade, their hopes and dreams, ups and downs.

The story begins at the darkest moment in 1916 when the country is occupied, the army on Corfu. The plot follows the historical events until 1921 and the death of King Peter, ie the Great War, the liberation of the country, the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

A true story based on the tragic event in the life of a top-notch actor at the peak of his career. The series follow the life of a top-notch actor at the peak of his career who gets into a brawl and kills two persons.