Useful links

The first step when trying to assemble a list of Yugoslav feature films made after 1945 is to locate and cross-reference previously existing lists.  To date I have primarily used several online databases, and my experience is that neither of them is complete.

The first database is Film.hr, "hrvatski film online." As of today, it lists 512 films in the feature film category, though this includes films going back as far as 1917.  The "Croatian" label is not too strictly applied here for the post-1945 period.  There is another list of Croatian and Yugoslav films available at Filmski programi.

Although it is not a film database per se, the selection of Serbian and Yugoslav films available in the domaći filmovi category at SerbianForum is very extensive.  This is also a great place to find old Yugoslav film posters, and many of the older and newer films are available for download, or can even be streamed online.  There used to be a pinned post on the discussion forum that listed almost all the domaći filmovi available on the site, but this unfortunately disappeared recently.  You have to dig, but it is still relatively easy to find the old gems.

Incidentally, there are discussions online about whether the term "domaći film" refers to the film production of  only one's one former Yugoslav republic, e.g. Serbia or Croatia, or whether it is a broad term referring to any film produced in Yugoslavia prior to 1991, and in any former Yugoslav republic thereafter.  Most people seem to take a pretty relaxed attitude to this, and with co-productions across borders becoming more frequent, a narrow definition does not really seem to be make much sense.

The mother of all internet film databases is, of course, the one and only IMDB.   While it certainly is enormous, some glitches on the site have lately made it more difficult to navigate in search of Yugoslav films.  Like so many others before them, the people behind IMDB unfortunately seem to have a hard time dealing with the complexities of Yugoslavia's dissolution.  Only a few months ago, if you asked IMDB to sort all movies by country of origin and chose Yugoslavia, the result was a verrrrry long list.  Now you just get an error message.  Instead, you have to resort to sorting movies by language, a highly imperfect workaround given the linguistic labyrinth that has developed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.  The language for some movies is listed as "Serbo-Croatian," for others as "Serbian," or "Croatian," or "Bosnian."  And, of course, many of the films that include dialogue in any of these languages are not Yugoslav movies.  A case in point with which I am highly familiar is the Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn's violent gangster trilogy, "Pusher," "Pusher II" and (sigh!) "Pusher III." (The first one is great, the second one questionable, and the third one strictly for masochists.)  As if to emphasize the point, IMDB lists the language as Serbo-Croatian in the first two, but as Serbian in the third.

I would be very grateful indeed if someone could direct me to other online databases, particularly ones from the other former Yugoslav republics that mirror Film.hr.