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Bravo maestro (1978)
Character: Čistačica
A young man who long ago gave over the hard work of being a composer for the easy life of a rich man's son is bamboozled into slapping together a musical production. Having borrowed right and left, and plagiarized the works of a friend, he feels cheap, very cheap. He feels even worse when the awful thing is a success.
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Krupni otpad (2008)
Character: Starica
Kralj, an energetic businessman, unexpectedly gets into trouble: at the same moment both his wife and his mistress start seeing through his carefully constructed lies. It is one of those days when everything goes wrong. This is a story in which people don’t meet or talk, but try to solve their accumulated problems via text messages.
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Kuća (1975)
Character: Sekina majka
The manager of an export-import company meets a young girl who claims that her parents have been taken their house away after WW2. After finding out this to be true, he offers to marry her which she accepts. However, it turns out that the house needs thorough restoration. Since his salary is not enough to cover its massive expenses, he puts his honesty on test.
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Doći i ostati (1965)
Character: Đorđeva žena
In search for the better life, three peasants Radovan, Jeremija and Gaša leave for a big city. Despite their expectations, there are many trials and temptations. Radovan manages to fit in by going to the evening school. The oldest of them, Jeremija, goes back to the village, while Gaša, after unreturned love, leaves to look for happiness somewhere else.
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Zagrebačke priče (2009)
Character: Klara (segment "Inkasator")
Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.
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Ambasador (1984)
Character: Štefica
Vlado Miljkovic, a former member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, partisan fighter and retired ambassador, lives in his villa in Zagreb with his children whom he lost contact with, if he ever had one. His daughter Mickey is morbidly devoted to the worship of the cult of her dead mother, and attempts suicide in a state of distress; son Roni plays drums in a rock group and engages in a car theft, while the eldest son Mark has achieved a prestigious career as a doctor, but has problems with his demanding wife and asks father to borrow him money. Complex family relations in the ambassador's house bear witness to central heating repairman...
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Luka (1992)
Character: N/A
After an oil field is discovered nearby the small Dalmatian town of Murvice, the local goverment wastes no time and throws all of the town's expenses towards building an oil tanker harbor. Urged by his wife, a local engineer named Slobodan Despot applies himself for the position of the chief engineer on the project, which her lover uses as an excuse to ruin Despot's reputation. Furious by this reputation and questioning all of his ideas, Despot decides to start an affair with a woman far younger than him.
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Marjuča ili smrt (1987)
Character: Vinka
The town of Split in the 1930s during Italian occupation. A boy torn between kid's games and sexual awakening finds more about the latter at the nearby whorehouse who works non-stop.
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Crveno i crno (2006)
Character: Felix's grandmother
A painter comes to the hospital for scanning, believed he has cancer. He carries a gun to shot himself just in case if it proves that he's right. When the results turn out to be negative, he's perplexed because it's actually life that is rigorous, and should he use his weapon anyway.
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Zvjerka (2016)
Character: Nada
A hundred year old woman called Nada and her 75-year old daughter Vera have a tense but familiar relationship. The childlike Vera takes care of her frail, mute though at times cruel, mother until one evening a bat flies into Nada's room and starts hibernating underneath her bed. The animal's presence gradually reinvigorates the old woman, eternally and fatally changing the relationship between mother and daughter.
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Piko (1959)
Character: Tetka
A small, neglected boy protests against his busy parents by rambling across the city alone.
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Rat (1960)
Character: N/A
At a church in the country, eternally optimistic John marries Maria, his Atomic War Bride, as a war starts, planes buzz overhead and bombs start dropping. Though John is "mobilized" by the military seconds after the ceremony, he and Maria seek to be reunited.
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Vučari Gornje i Donje Polače (1978)
Character: N/A
Two groups of men from neighboring villages get into a clash after both of them shot one wolf for the upcoming local festivity called "vucarenje" (wolf assembly), a rural custom typical for Dalmatian Zagora. Their rivalry ends in a tragic way.
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Kad ftičeki popevleju (1988)
Character: N/A
In northern Croatia, a typical problem pops out during the engagement between two neighbors, a widower and a pregnant woman.
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Година на мајмунот (2019)
Character: Vilma Lukić
A mild political satire about a peculiar friendship between a lonesome monkey and an (impoverished) zoo warden, and about an upside-down world in transition as seen by a chimpanzee.
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Blagajnica hoće ići na more (2001)
Character: Starica kradljivica
After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes and takes her daughter for a break at the seaside.
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Servantes iz malog mista (1982)
Character: Keka
'Malo Misto' lives its own life, but not far behind the times. Hotel manager Roko Prč strives to organise tourism, so he introduces the first nudist beach. His wife Anđa brings two of her cousins from the Dalmatian hinterland and demands Roko to hire them. One of them, a young man named Ikan, earns the attention of a beautiful Swedish tourist. From Chile to Malo Misto returned Tonči, nicknamed Servantes, of course, without any money. He fell on the back of his hardworking aunt Keka, who even without him has enough problems of her own. Servantes also experiences an unexpected romance.
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Vjerujem u anđele (2009)
Character: Slijepa Petra
The mailmen, Šime, is one of the favorite people of a small town, on an island in the middle of the sea. Šime is very intelligent and the locals have high regards for him because he is unusually well versed in all the events and destinies in the small town. He knows the weather forecast, what winds will blow, what the sermon on the Sunday mass will be. For all the locals Šime is an untouchable genius. However, unlike the locals, the viewers soon find out that the Sime's ingenuity is based on his reading of the mail. Fascinated by other people's destinies, Šime has perfected a way for opening letters and keeping complete records on the people living on the island. He keeps a precise track of who gets what kinds of letters, and that gives him insight into discrete and private affairs of people. One day a beautiful woman named Dea moves into town, and all the men try and court her...
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Soba za odmor (1983)
Character: Pipničarka
By using the motifs of Krleza's play "Adam and Eve", written in 1922, director Tomislav Radic questions a similar pattern of male-female relations in a trivial, contemporary context. With Krleza's lines, Radic counterpoints almost documentary sequences from life, showing how Krleza's youthful distaste for the bourgeois concept of "love" can be actualized in a fundamentally different social environment.
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Slučaj maturanta Wagnera (1976)
Character: Lucija Wagner
This drama premiered in Zagreb in 1935. The plot shows a young man from a well-to-do bourgeois family facing the anger of his parents over his absences from high school, behind which stands his forbidden love with a girl of humble working-class background.
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Slučaj Filipa Franjića (1978)
Character: Vera Franjić
Due to idealism, honesty and resoluteness, a driver in a transport company faces numerous problems in his living and working environment.
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Debeli lad (1978)
Character: Komšinica II
The action takes place in the Dalmatian hinterland and displays how the effects of modern life disintegrate local population in the villages.
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Tonkina jedna ljubav (1965)
Character: Tonka
A slightly deaf girl named Tonka lives with alone with her father and is still unmarried. Aside from her handicap, Tonka’s physical appearance is not grand either, which makes difficult for her to attract men and start a romantic relationship. Then she becomes the subject of town’s malicious gossip.
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Božić u Beču (1997)
Character: Teta Ana
Eastern Croatian front, December 1991. Famed violinist Ivan Lesjak, his best friend and their travelling band perform for the exhausted soldiers on the frontlines. During one of these private concerts, the camp they're staying in is bombareded by Serbian forces. In the midst of the chaos, Ivan's best friend looses and arm and dies from his injuries soon after. Traumtized by what he saw, Ivan decides to leave the country and keep his parents company in their viennese apartment, however, the lights and crowds of the metropolis further increase his anxiety, until he meets Marina, another Croatian refugee who came to work in Austria as a nurse.
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Noći i jutra (1959)
Character: Vera
A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.
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Prezimiti u Riu (2002)
Character: Bakica
Wanting to leave a good impression for his daughter's visit, a homeless war veteran devises a plan to break into a well-known criminal's old apartment and claim it as his own. But, when his plans are thwarted, his daughter becomes an unsuspecting target.
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Bogorodica (1999)
Character: N/A
Lovrinci, Eastern Croatia, 1991. Kuzma Glavan, a middle-aged carpenter struggling to provide for his sickly mother, starts a relationship with the much younger Ana Šokčević, a teacher at the village school. The parents of both parties object to this relationship, however, they persist and soon their whirlwind romance results in marriage. However, their seemingly idyllic family life is thwarted when the ethnic conflicts between Croats and Serbs in the area start growing violent.
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Jedno ubojstvo za van (2017)
Character: Baka Grabovac
The plot takes place in Zagreb and follows the clumsy and clueless geography teacher Kazimir through tumultuous changes in his life. After being fired from school, his wife dumps him for the school principal, leaving him to deal with debts. Kazimir hits an existential low and conceives a sinister plan.
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Svjedoci (2003)
Character: Starica
Karlovac, Central Croatian Front, 1991. Three Croatian soldiers try to detonate a Serb civilian's home, but are stopped in their efforts by the homeowner, whom they kill in retaliation. The only witness to the murder is the man's daughter, whom they decide to kidnap to prevent the truth from spreading out and causing political unrest. Nevertheless, the case gets out and, unebenknownst to each other, five different people: a homicide investigator, a medical examiner, a local politician, a reporter and the brother of one of the perpetrators, decide to track the perpetrators down to stop the truth from getting out.
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Svoga tela gospodar (1957)
Character: Roza
Due to negligence that caused the death of a family cow, an extremely poor but handsome young man Iva must obey his father's demands to marry an unattractive and limping daughter of wealthy villagers.
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H-8... (1958)
Character: Gospođa Jakupec
A bus traveling from Belgrade to Zagreb is involved in a tragic accident when a reckless driver causes a catastrophic collision on a rainy night, leading to the tragic deaths of several passengers.
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Snivaj, zlato moje (2005)
Character: Neda Glazar
A bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.
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Šegrt Hlapić (2013)
Character: Miškova majka
Apprentice Lapitch, the little shoemaker sets off on a journey after experiencing injustice from the cruel Master Mrkonja. On his journey he meets Gita, a beautiful little circus girl who is an orphan just like him. They share adventures and experience problems during their journey. They have nowhere to sleep, no food and are poorly clothed, but nothing scares them. They are bold and happy, willing to help everyone. On the night of the full moon something terrible happens, and changes everything...
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Izgubljeni zavičaj (1980)
Character: Stara Ines
The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.
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Tri Ane (1959)
Character: Ana 2 - Kućanica
A retired tram driver tries to find his daughter named Ana whom he lost in the Second World War.
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Kužiš, stari moj (1973)
Character: N/A
Our hero is Glista - a young Zagreb punk whose (sub)urban adventures depict his world and philosophy.
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Okupacija u 26 slika (1978)
Character: Luce
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.
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Duga mračna noć (2004)
Character: Marijana
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.
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U plavetnilo (2017)
Character: Grandmother
Thirteen year old Julija and her mother flee their abusive household to find refuge on an idyllic Croatian island where Julija grew up. Emotionally scarred, Julija is desperate to reconnect with her best friend, Ana. But Ana is in love with a boy and Julija is no longer a priority.
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Na putu (2010)
Character: Baka
Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness...
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