Crni Talas - Yugoslavian Black Wave
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- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsBeba LoncarMiha BalohMilos ZuticA young man falls in love with the girl who he met by accident.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsOlga VujadinovicLjubisa SamardzicVjekoslav AfricA married woman is living an unexcited life, until she meets a man who is able to put a smile on her face again, at least for one day.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicAli RanerSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicThree stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsBekim FehmiuOlivera KatarinaVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicTensions arise in a Gypsy community when a local feather seller falls in love with a much younger girl.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsAnnie GirardotIvan PalúchMija AleksicA bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsUgo TognazziMimsy FarmerAlain CunyA writer and his assistant are working on a biblical story about Pontius Pilate who convicted Jesus of Nazereth, while the Satan (here called Woland) and his lieutenants are harassing the writer duo in various ways.
- DirectorBahrudin 'Bato' CengicStarsDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicBranka PetricAfter WW2, a group of partisans comes to a bourgeois family in order to teach them singing and declamation of new songs. The family soon forgets their old customs and principles.
- DirectorMarko BabacZivojin PavlovicVojislav 'Kokan' RakonjacStarsJanez VrhovecSnezana LukicPetar LupaA three-part omnibus consisting of Kino Klub amateurs' work: Zivojin Pavlovic's dialogue-free "Live Waters" set in 1943, Marko Babac's "Warriors" about psychological look at the two patients in a hospital room, as well as Kokan Rakonjac's "Raindrops" about alcoholic's decaying relationship with his girlfriend.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicSnezana LukicMaks FurijanAn ex-soldier named Slobodan Antic, referred to by a friend as one of the last idealists, finds himself losing control over his own life when a man identical to him starts following him around, claiming to be a friend but behaving suspiciously. Before long his dealings with this doppelganger begin to cost him and his professional and romantic life grow more and more confused.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicSnezana LukicMilan PauljevicAn ex-convict attempts to adapt in a new, changed environment. Wishing to start from the very beginning with his new girlfriend, he tries to stay away from his former buddies who want to involve him into their new ventures.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsDragan NikolicRuzica SokicNeda SpasojevicThe story about Jimmy the Dingy, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicDusica ZegaracSeverin BijelicA lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister's treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsMilena DravicIvica VidovicSeverin BijelicIdealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsRade SerbedzijaMajda PotokarMajda GrbacAn ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsJovan CirilovMila RadosavljevicA man rises from his own coffin to describe his life in an unnamed, repressive society. Every milestone of his life; birth, marriage, etc. is marred by the interference of the literally faceless bureaucracy.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsAnja BaskovacDragoljub IvkovFirst five minutes of the film show a weird fellow who is playing marbles with kids and seems to be just biding his time. Film after the titles continues to follow his adventures as his love story unfolds. A love story between him and a doll in a window shop.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMirjana VacicA young woman tries to make love to a park statue, but despite her passionate efforts, the monument remains cold and heartless. Don't Believe in Monuments is an early short, where Makavejev subtly ridicules Yugoslav state-sponsored monument and history worship.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevPeople in a rural Yugoslav community are transitioning from using horses to motor-vehicles. As more and more start using cars, the horses are killed off and wagons dismantled.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMilena DravicJanez VrhovecEva RasA love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsEva RasSlobodan AligrudicRuzica SokicA young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsDragoljub AleksicBratoljub GligorijevicVera JovanovicDocumentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMilena DravicIvica VidovicJagoda KaloperAn homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored.
- DirectorJovan JovanovicStarsStevan TadicNada PavlovicMind sick man wondering on streets of Belgrade,thinking about killing us all.
- DirectorJovan JovanovicStarsDragan NikolicAleksandar GavricMaría BaxaFollows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", petty criminal born in Belgrade, always problematic, enemy of country's regime, influenced by society and movies(for example Godard's, even the movie looks like "Breathless" a little bit and Godard is mentioned once in the movie) and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of local police.
- DirectorLazar StojanovicStarsVukica DjilasSvetlana GligorijevicTomislav GotovacTom is a young guy from Zagreb, completely without money, trying to make films in Belgrade. He somehow manages to survive with a help of women. He doesn't believe in anybody, respects no one and is in constant conflict with the ruling system and order. After being left by a silly American girl, Tom binds with a woman whose husband is abroad. When she kicks him out, he moves in with her husband's sister, who later kills him in the attack of jealousy. All this is shown in the context of major historical events prior to 1968. with lots of archive footages of world leaders.
- DirectorVojislav 'Kokan' RakonjacStarsBranko PlesaLjuba TadicVesna KrajinaTwo men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shot, but missed on purpose.
- DirectorBoro DraskovicStarsMilena DravicDragan NikolicPavle VuisicA gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. They are especially focused on a pretty girl that sells newspapers, and they make a bet which one will seduce her.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikStory follows a weekend in a village where young adults after a hard working week let there steam off in taverns eating, drinking, singing, breaking glasses and occasionally other things every Sunday.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikStarsPirika CapkoIn SFRJ, the state officially takes care of all it's citizens. Every child is a good little pioneer. However, in reality no one (especially not the state) takes care of Roma and many other poor kids leaving them to poverty and the streets.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikSFRJ is officially a place where everyone have a job and a house. The story follows hard labored workers who can't find a job, who bathe in public bathrooms and sleep in homeless centers.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikStarsDragoljub MicunovicDragoljub VojnovStevo ZigonThe film is documenting student demonstrations in Belgrade in June 1968. It was shot for the most part in the court of Kapetan Misino Zdanje (Faculty of Philosophy building), where students gathered up and where famous artists participated thus showing solidarity with the students.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikStarsMilja VujanovicBogdan TirnanicCedomir RadovicA group of young persons are going to make a revolution, but in real life everything is not the same as in smart books.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikStarsLuka BauerFranja HandrevaAleksandar LopatinDirector invites six homeless men to his flat for a few days (surprising his wife). He asks officials and people on the street if someone can help them, this being SFRJ, a state officially without those left on their own.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikPeople from the Jazak village show how they fought undercover against the occupation forces during WWII.
- DirectorMiodrag PopovicStarsLjerka DrazenovicJovan Janicijevic-BurdusDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicThe winds of war has passed and left a permanent deformation of the human psyche. Two brothers returned after the liberation of their village who that is the whole burnt and deserted. They confessed to each other that the war, as trophies, bring tasers ammunition. In all this madness begins the game with a shooting that much love. They are joined by a German who is hiding behind the rocks after the destruction of the village. And in this insane game killed all three.
- DirectorKarpo Acimovic-GodinaStarsOblak BardManca CermeljMilan JesihPlotless and wordless, beautifully edited shots of young (often naked or semi-naked) people in various positions, illustrating different emotions, actions and situations, underlined by rock music.
- DirectorKarpo Acimovic-GodinaTinto BrassMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsBrooke HaywardSonja HenieBranko MilicevicAt the 1971 International Film Festival of Belgrade, Yugoslav director Karpo Acimovic-Godina instructed seven other directors to shoot less than three minutes of film footage inside a bedroom with static shots that contained the phrase "I Miss Sonja Henie". This film is the result.
- DirectorKarpo Acimovic-Godina"Healthy People for Fun" portrays the ethnic minorities living in the multicultural Yugoslavian province of Vojvodina (today part of Serbia). Nations and ethnic groups in the province of Vojvodina live in harmonious coexistence. However, members of the same ethnic groups paint facades of their houses the same color - Croats red, Hungarians green, and Slovaks blue... The film delighted audiences at the premiere and won an award at the Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, but it was soon banned because of alleged subversive elements.
- DirectorLjubisa KozomaraGordan MihicStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicMilan JelicJelisaveta 'Seka' SablicA flat-broke aging boxer living on the verge of existence, associates with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for money.
- DirectorMilan NikodijevicDinko TucakovicStarsKarpo Acimovic-GodinaBorislav AndjelicBahrudin 'Bato' CengicA profound insight into history of Yugoslav cinema through censorship perspective. How did famous anti-communist movies from Yugoslav time succeeded in being made and what consequences did they had to bear? Film contains original interviews with most important dissident filmmakers from communist time, including Dusan Makavejev, Zelimir Zilnik and Lazar Stojanovic.