Best North Macedonian drama movies
A curated collection of popular drama movies from North Macedonia.
To the Hilt (2014)
To the Hilt (2014)
Macedonia is a small country, in the heart of the Balkans, which for five centuries was under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire. The action of the film "To the Hilt" takes place in the years of the general collapse and "free fall", after the Macedonian uprising of 1903 which was extinguished in blood. The story is a love quadrangle between an uncompromising idealist rebel, a merciless Turkish officer, an opportunist rich man's son returning home after his studies in Europe and a lucid and open minded European woman, who flirts with the three men and puts in train a series of events with dire consequences, that she could hardly imagine. The film is a harsh and romantic story in which the eternal Macedonian cause for own identity and independence is seen through the prism of relativity of the ideas of freedom, justice, love, sacrifice, and treason.
Guardians of the Formula (2024)
Maxim (2012)
Maxim (2012)
Maxim is an artistic examination of the unconscious, oppressed, forgotten and traumatic past, of the reality full of treachery and violence, which casts a shadow on the life of a young man, forcing him to kill in order to save, to kill in order to continue living, to run in order to get away from the shadow in which he exists. Maxim is a synonym and a way to confront the dualism of the awareness where the subconscious mind and destiny are the carriers of the story in the movie - alter ego.
Three Days in September (2015)
Three Days in September (2015)
Story about a vengeance, about the secrets we carry and the roles we play.
Identity (2019)
Identity (2019)
Bjondi, a man around 35 years, faces with schizophrenic symptoms as a result of a bad story happened in his family. The death of the only daughter and the loss of his wife, forces Bjondi to give a duty to his friend Sam to find his wife's killer.
The Business of Pleasure (2024)
The Business of Pleasure (2024)
Obsessed with the disappearance of her best friend who became a victim of sex trafficking, a journalist plots an undercover operation in order to expose the criminal network. But as her accomplices draw closer to the boss, the situation gets out of control and they struggle to get out alive.
Golden Five (2016)
Golden Five (2016)
This is a feature about one discontinued and one started love, with passion and betrayal floating between them. Kata and Djidji live their own life, escaping the absurd sins of the past. But then Alavantie discovers some new clues that lead to the case in which a group of students is liquidated. One of those 5 innocent boys had a relationship with Kata. The long kept secret is finally here. The end of damnation is approaching.
The Third Half (2012)
The Third Half (2012)
Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League
Contact (2005)
Contact (2005)
A Romantic Drama with humor about two different Misfits who meet by accident in an old devastated Villa and step by step discover their feelings for each other...You must see this picture...
The Lover (2018)
The Lover (2018)
A failed circus artist managed to regain his beloved and to pull her from the embrace of her new lover, using the acrobatic skills she once fell in love with.
Time, Life (1992)
Time, Life (1992)
Adaptation of a TV Series with 3 episodes, "Third Age", filmed in 1986. This is a movie that shows how the old people live in a city (Skopje), film about love in the "third age", with a knit of humor and lyrically transposed characters.
Macedonian Saga (1993)
Macedonian Saga (1993)
The arrival of the young teacher Damjan in one village in western Macedonia shakes the usual daily life of its inhabitants who belong to different religions.
Shadows (2007)
Shadows (2007)
A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far as to christen him with the nickname "Lucky." But appearances can sometimes be...
Puppet Show (2000)
Puppet Show (2000)
It seems that Temjan has managed to commit suicide twice. But, Astrid, a girl in love with him, will stop at nothing to prevent him from killing their relationship.
Ghoul Quest (2002)
Ghoul Quest (2002)
Serafim is a vampire hunter - who wanders through Macedonian villages and destroys the vampired dead man for money. His apprentice is young fellow named Fidan, who Serafim teaches the rough and dangerous vampire craft, along with the alphabet and the insecure life in Macedonia. Vampire man and his student in their surroundings get in struggle with: Macedonian vampires, Turkish Authority and with Komiti (Macedonian Revolutionaries), also with Avdzi - Taburi (paid hunters of Komiti). Fidan experiences damnation of the vampire skill, who doesn't know if Serafim is a God's angel or servant of Devil.
Stela (2020)
Stela (2020)
After an attempt of a suicide of a 11 year old bullied kid, Stela "a shepherd dog" is the only one that can get through him and restore his faith in life.
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (2019)
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (2019)
In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before the others. Her competitors are furious - how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell breaks loose, but Petrunya holds her ground. She won her cross and will not give it up.
Mirage (2004)
Mirage (2004)
As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
Lena and Vladimir (2023)
Lena and Vladimir (2023)
Fate unites two runaways, Vladimir a forty-year-old man who has lost all of his love and Lena, a sixteen-year-old girl who has never had one. They help each other to rediscover their love for life.
Digging (2018)
Digging (2018)
The film tells the story of two friends meeting in the countryside after 16 years, accompanied by a third person, to dig a well. They start to talk, but at the same time they remain silent about their common past, their connection and their separation. Digging is about the past and the present, about friendship and the unique laws of one friendship in particular, impenetrable to those who stand outside it.
The Vanished (2021)
The Vanished (2021)
Far from his hometown, Beqir spends most of his time in front of the typewriter machine rather than with his wife. Nostalgic for his homeland and his people, he is no longer at peace with himself, so by writing his memoirs he tries to unveil something important, something he hides from his wife and even himself.
Willow (2019)
Willow (2019)
Three Macedonian women have to contend with control over their bodies, tradition, loyalty, pregnancy and adoption. They have not set out to change the world or society, but their struggle to become mothers makes them unlikely heroines. The three bittersweet stories, one medieval, two contemporary, mirror and contrast one another, exploring themes of love, trust and motherhood.
The Piano Room (2013)
The Piano Room (2013)
A run-down hotel room, a piano, a maid and the guests who stay there. Life begins, life ends, and lives are changed forever in the piano room.
Snake (2019)
Snake (2019)
A bittersweet story about an unusual friendship between a nine-year-old daredevil Mario and an eccentric gay man Borche, challenged by the prejudices and hatred of the parents in a remote Macedonian small town.
I am from Titov Veles (2007)
I am from Titov Veles (2007)
Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid landscape of post-Communist Macedonia.
Éclair (2016)
Éclair (2016)
Ohrid, 4th of may 1980. Marko, son of the cook in the Marshal's villa, get's a chance to try the food that has been cooked in front of his eyes all his life.