Movies like Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
The best movies like Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996) are Sky Hook (2000), Underground (1995) and The Professional (2003). If Pretty Village, Pretty Flame hooked you with its drama and war, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedUnderground (1995)7.7/10 from 823 votes
- NewestDara of Jasenovac (2020)Released 2020
Sky Hook (2000)
Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Underground (1995)
Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Professional (2003)
Till recently a University professor, a bohemian writer, a member of Belgrade's intellectual circles and a passionate opponent of the Milosevic's regime meets the man, unknown to him, but who knows every tiny detail of his life. Man tells him a story and plot unfolds unimaginably.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wounds (1998)
This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLife Is a Miracle (2004)
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Load (2019)
Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Balkan Spy (1984)
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to an absurd and destructive chain of events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Knife (1999)
In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Before the Rain (1994)
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Marathon Family (1982)
The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBarking at the Stars (1998)
Comedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Black Bomber (1992)
In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Red Colored Grey Truck (2004)
Belgrade, the summer of 1991. Yugoslavia is falling apart. Gavran can't get a driving licence because he is color blind. He is a rural Bosnian introvert obsessed with trucks. So, as soon as he is released from prison, he steals a truck to go on a joyride. Suzana, a city girl, discovers she is pregnant, but until she's due for an abortion, she decides to go to Dubrovnik. She hitchikes and Gavran almost runs her over. She is unhurt, but she blackmails him to take her to Dubrovnik. Two people from different worlds, equally removed from the real one. For him she is the first woman he can talk to; for her he is just another idiot to add to the long list of them that she has so far compiled. But the pressure of danger and the intimations of war force them together. The world about them has become so absurd that they seem to each other the only sober people left.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTito and Me (1992)
At his school, 10-year-old Zoran wins the competition for the best essay about Tito. His reward is participation in the march "Revolutionary trails" to Tito's hometown of Kumrovec.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhen Father Was Away on Business (1985)
In a post-WWII Yugoslavia still under Stalinist rule in the 1950s, six-year-old Malik is oblivious as to why his father, Mehmed, has suddenly disappeared. In truth, Mehmed has been sent to a labor camp as punishment for acts of sexual indiscretion involving young girls. Malik's mother, Senija, however, has no answers, and the family must cope in the father's absence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCircles (2013)
Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWho's Singin' Over There? (1980)
On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstic senior, and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Misko.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAs If I Am Not There (2010)
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time – the Bosnian War of the 1990s – Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Three (1965)
Episodic WWII drama that follows a Yugoslav man through the war as he goes from witness to victim to aggressor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war & drama
No One's Child (2014)
The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize him and got the Muslim name – Haris. Contrary to most predictions, he was developing and making friends quickly. When the war in BiH broke out in 1992, Haris got the letter from local Bosnian authorities which asked for his immediate return. Upon returning to BiH, he had nowhere to go. While wandering aimlessly, he came across a group of soldiers that gave him a gun and took him with them
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dudes! (2001)
Urban comedy, happening during a night in Belgrade. Mare, Pop and Gojko are three friends who grew up together. Mare and Pop have always been musicians, while Gojko (who was harassed by them in school and nicknamed 'Sissy') became a 'guy in suit', boss of his own club and recording studio.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSavior (1998)
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMarooned in Iraq (2002)
During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
No 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?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCabaret Balkan (1998)
20 peoples paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Ajvar (2019)
Vida and Bane are married couple who have been living in Scandinavia for a long time. They have successful careers, enough money for a decent life and a dog, but they do not have children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
A small-time hustler makes a deal with a notorious gangster to whom he owes money: marry his teenage son to the latter's daughter. However, the young lovers are not as agreeable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDara of Jasenovac (2020)
During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & war
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOn the Milky Road (2016)
Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop them… Two-times Palme D'Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars in this story of love and war, rich in emotion, comedy and adventure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNormal People (2001)
The plot follows Steva, who is in love with an actress, Duja, who adores his motorcycle, and Bane, who plans to steal the motorcycle. Nikola desperately searches for a job, while Toma is in love with Mira, who is in an abusive relationship and occasionally thinks about Toma. The film highlights the despair and isolation of a generation in the post-war era.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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What are the best movies like Pretty Village, Pretty Flame?
The closest matches to Pretty Village, Pretty Flame are Sky Hook (2000), Underground (1995) and The Professional (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Pretty Village, Pretty Flame?
People who watched Pretty Village, Pretty Flame most often go on to Sky Hook (2000), Underground (1995) and The Professional (2003).
What is the highest-rated movie like Pretty Village, Pretty Flame?
Underground (1995), rated 7.7/10 by 823 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Pretty Village, Pretty Flame?
Dara of Jasenovac (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Pretty Village, Pretty Flame chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Pretty Village, Pretty Flame, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.