The best Asim Ugljen’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Asim Ugljen’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Asim Ugljen.
7 seX 7
3.8/10
An Croatian erotic anthology of seven short stories directed by Irena Skoric, all revolving around sex and relationships. Five of the stories following the intimacies of straight couples, where the 6th and 7th stories revolve around a lesbian couple and a gay couple.
Rafaël
6.7/10
A romantic drama about a Tunisian man and a Dutch woman who get separated from each other.
Children of the Fall
6/10
Man finds himself stuck in the moment between his wife's disappearance and new life created by his daughter and a new woman.
Zagreb Stories
6/10
Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.
Number 55
6.8/10
In the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst stationed in that house they would get attacked by rebel Serbs, Serbian Special Forces and the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army, also reffered to as Yugoslavian National Army). Their resistance to the attackers would last 24 hours whilst their fellow combatants would attempt to try and get them out of there. The movie and story is based on true events which happened during the Croatian War of Independence.
Dead Fish
6.2/10
Drama set in a small provincial town in post-war Croatia about 20 locals who try to understand why one of their neighbors killed himself.
Generation of 71
5.5/10
In the start of the breakup of Yugoslavia, in spring 1991, there is a group of young conscripted soldiers in a remote military outpost. Their army and country are falling apart and the war is starting nearby. Friends are facing a decision of their lives: should they stay or run?
First Lady of Dubrava
7.9/10
Amra is an attractive and talented teenager living in the outskirts of Zagreb. Her dirty rap music has made her quite popular in the neighborhood. She has plans to shoot a music video, but she is supposed to babysit her sister. Amra is not willing to sacrifice her big chance.
March 9th
7/10
One shot. Two bodies. And an interrupted sex. Film in which faces and voices are outside the shot, and protagonist is Her and His naked flesh, on that March 9th, in a casual relationship and a casual deceit. Nervous croquis of body language.
