Best Slovenian drama movies
A curated collection of popular drama movies from Slovenia.
Silent Sonata (2011)
Silent Sonata (2011)
A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus stops by the house. They bring along the dying director of the circus. Is it possible for anything beautiful to happen in a landscape of war and death? Can life go on? Is it possible to realize that death does not exist?
Breakthrough (2019)
Breakthrough (2019)
Young partisan resistance fighter commander Franc Sever Franta faces an impossible task when he has to rescue 500 freedom fighters surrounded and outnumbered by a Nazi German division high in the mountains in harsh winter condition.
Ljubljana the Beloved (2005)
Ljubljana the Beloved (2005)
Oton, a young boy, is growing up while his hometown Ljubljana changes, from 1934, when King Alexander of Yugoslavia is killed in France, through first the Italian and then the German occupations of the city, until the arrival of Communism.
The Patriot (1998)
The Patriot (1998)
NATO prepares a global plan as a protection of Central Europe, which is why they set up an aerial defense system in Slovenia named as The Patriot. International terrorist organization attempts to destroy it together with the nuclear power plant. An ex-criminal who's in charge of The Patriot, tries to prevent this catastrophe and also stop the internal enemies.
09:06 (2009)
09:06 (2009)
A police inspector investigates an unusual suicide case. The investigation develops into an obsession, inspector starts living in the apartment of the deceased, digging through his life and gradually taking over his identity.
Headnoise (2002)
Headnoise (2002)
In Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let them watch the televised Olympic final basketball game between the home country and the U.S., but taunting guards interrupt the viewing and prod the prisoners to the point of a riot. After a period of a kind of blissful anarchy where the inmates taste freedom, Keber enlists the house "intellectual" Mrak to devise a system of prisoner self-government aimed at forcing reforms on the state.
The Rift (1998)
The Rift (1998)
In the seventies, in the slightly envious country, you come to the cooperative sawmill, the Štefan season, which gets entangled with an older village girl, Anica, so she gets pregnant. This obstructs his life plans: get a quick start to get enough to travel to Australia. Jože also comes to Slovenia with Štefan, who is a native but lives a distant life of a special person. Anika's older sister, Marta, is married, but without children. It turns out that they used to love Marta before, and then Jose escaped to study the theology, which he never completed. Anxious Anica succumbs to her sister's escalating hatred of men, so poorly crap Martin's advice is to close Stephen somewhere until forced into marriage. The events in the temple where Štefan is closed is culminating in a mission in a village church. At the time of the death of the old Martnjakovka, Aničina and Martina mothers, the events went wrong in the crime ...
Shoemaker (2017)
Shoemaker (2017)
In a distopian future few shoemakers are working under an all seeing eye of the factory owner.
Heart Is a Piece of Meat (2003)
Heart Is a Piece of Meat (2003)
A wordless and virtually soundless but nonetheless exquisitely sensitive drama about an overweight butcher who lives alone and the strange fascination he develops for an attractive young woman he sees on his regular bus route. He takes tentative steps to approach her but though he receives an open, caring smile, fails to respond.
Carmen (1995)
Carmen (1995)
Goran is a literary student who writes erotic stories to support himself is introduced to Carmen, who was born in extramarital relationship of an opera singer. Goran tries to get rid her of drugs and prostitution. Deeply depressed Carmen blames his mother for her own misery, which gets even worse after her death. A sense of guilt because of her mother's death leads Carmen to insanity.
Stories from the Chestnut Woods (2019)
Stories from the Chestnut Woods (2019)
In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the ocean to find there a better life. A chance encounter gives rise to a dreamy parable on loss, loneliness and the power of imagination.
Bits (2020)
Bits (2020)
When his father visits him with a brand-new truck, eleven-year-old Teo makes a decision that will change his life forever.
Slovenian Girl (2009)
Slovenian Girl (2009)
Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility
Class Enemy (2013)
Class Enemy (2013)
Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.
Concert (2019)
Concert (2019)
Ajda's carefree childhood is slowly mixing with puberty. She is inspired by her young guitar teacher Mojca, and her attention is also piqued by a boy named Javor. The realization at the concert forces her to grow up instantly, as it irreversibly changes her.
Meanwhile (2018)
Meanwhile (2018)
Klara escapes the pressures of the hot summer concrete and the city bustle. A ’93 Toyota, empty road, Peter with a violin case, and the sea. Everyone manages to find their own spot of peace and quiet. When a lot happens, and yet nothing at all.
The Tunnel (2018)
The Tunnel (2018)
On the way to work the protagonist avoids driving through a tunnel, making a detour instead. One day, driving into an obstacle, he has no choice but to finally face his fears.
Outsider (1997)
Outsider (1997)
A teenager, son of an army officer moves with his family to Ljubljana in the fall of 1979. In the new surroundings, he'll fall in love, make friends and discover the world of punk rock. The latter will put him into the troubles with his strict father.
A Dream (2017)
A Dream (2017)
Prishtina, Kosovo. Mark works as 'an international employee'. One night he meets three local girls in a bar: Besa, her girlfriend Hana, and Shpresa. Mark is attracted to Shpresa's extreme passion, but the romance is soon shattered. Her mood swings from passionate love to hate and death threats in a matter of seconds. For Mark this is hard to handle. He believes Shpresa might suffer from borderline personality disorder. As he wants to confront her, she starts pushing him away. Hana and Besa's relationship is also in danger, but for a completely different reason: Hana is afraid of the social stigma that love between two girls carries in the deeply conservative and patriarchal Kosovo.
Tomorrow (2015)
Tomorrow (2015)
Three different lives. Three different stories. One homeless person. He might change their lives forever. - A young waitress and an aspiring actress is from a broken home, living with her abusive father. She will do anything to seek freedom. The problem is that she is searching it in all the wrong places. - An art student comes from a warm and bubbly home. She is now facing a harsh reality and all the dilemmas that come by with living in the city. - A priest, sworn to God, is enchanted by the seductive charms of a young catholic girl. Now, he must make the life-changing decision. All seek redemption. But will they find it? We all make mistakes on our path and have big stories to tell to the world. Sometimes, we don't get a second chance. But hey, there's always tomorrow!
Rooster's Breakfast (2007)
Rooster's Breakfast (2007)
After being fired, a young car mechanic Đuro gets recommendation to look for another job in a remote village. His new boss is warm, old fashioned and naive - completely opposite from the world he's coming from. The peaceful atmosphere is shaken when Đuro falls for a regular customer's wife.
Labour Equals Freedom (2004)
Labour Equals Freedom (2004)
Peter is in his early forties and until recently he worked in a factory, but after Slovenia's integration into the European Union, the factory closed down and Peter and his colleagues have been made redundant. Slowly but surely, he is losing self-confidence and self-esteem.
The Springtime Sleep (2014)
The Springtime Sleep (2014)
All of a sudden world have become very different for Jasna, or has it always been this way? She doesn't try to find out, she rather lives in now as it is. Doing so she meets a younger boy Pero which she finds a bit shady but cool and together they go on a journey to find out how meaningless is what was and will be.
A Trip (2011)
A Trip (2011)
Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Erased (2018)
Erased (2018)
After giving birth in a hospital, Ana enters a bureaucratic labyrinth whose proportions and consequences she cannot even imagine.
Shanghai Gypsy (2012)
Shanghai Gypsy (2012)
The main protagonists of the film are members of the gypsy family Mirga. Lutvija Belmondo Mirga narrates a story about four generations. Belmondo is the central character of the film, a gypsy king, who decided to establish his own gypsy village. He names it Shanghai. Belmondo makes a living smuggling and his power and influence grow big. He even gets the local police and politics on his side and that helps him to become untouchable for law. But with the downfall of Yugoslavia, smuggling of goods is replaced by smuggling of the arms. Though lucrative the business starts to threaten Belmondo’s personal life and he finds himself at the crossroads. Will he protect his own family or is he going to sacrifice his personal happiness for business ambitions?
Sunday Morning (2018)
Sunday Morning (2018)
Two boys, their fathers and a dog in an unexpected, life-changing encounter in a forest on a Sunday morning. A short film about authorities, disappointments and the birth of a rebel.
(A)Torsion (2003)
(A)Torsion (2003)
(A) Torsion is a 2002 Bosnian short film directed by Stefan Arsenijevic. A singing group, trying to escape war-torn Sarajevo, has to wait for a tunnel to clear. While they wait, a cow has difficulty giving birth because of the "torsion" affecting its calf (i.e., it's in a twisted position inside). Fortunately, one of the choir members has some veterinary training, and with help from the chorus to drown out the sounds of war, the cow gives birth. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Mother (2016)
Mother (2016)
A Slovenian mother takes her addicted and self-destructive daughter with her to a remote Italian village. Isolation as attempted salvation. Inspired by Proust, Skafar turns this theme into a gentle and beautiful film, a poem about two souls in which the unutterable slowly comes to the surface.
Riders (2022)
Riders (2022)
Slovenia, the spring of 1999. Two friends from a small village decide to transform their mopeds into choppers and embark on a journey. Looking for freedom and love, they travel through dreams of the past and visions of the future. Driven by mad impulses and haunted by the conservative moulds of traditions, they start believing and understanding things previously unimaginable. On the road through Slovenia and Croatia - two countries that have just recently seceded from Yugoslavia - they are accompanied by a young runaway woman with a mysterious past and an old biker who has seen the world in search of freedom but has still not found it. They challenge themselves and each other through shared experiences, severing their ties with and conceptions of the old and thus making way for the new.