Goran Grgić

Goran Grgić

Born: November 17, 1965
in Osijek, Croatia

Movies for Goran Grgić...

Bosnian Pot
Title: Bosnian Pot
Character: Stjepo
Released: August 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Faruk Sego, a failed Bosnian writer facing deportation from Austria, must prove that he has made a cultural contribution to Austrian society. His last chance is an off-theatre troupe that can stage a play he wrote as a young man. Faruk's reluctant return to the theatre will force him to realise what is truly important in life.
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Good Times, Bad Times
Title: Good Times, Bad Times
Released: July 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Sitting in a restaurant representing the waiting room to the other world, a tired old man watches the patrons who represent him and his immediate family during the important moments of his life. Moments that have impacted him and the family, and have turned him into a man he was at the end of his life. The old man is forced to look these events in an objective way, observe them from the sidelines, as the judge and jury of a tragic life filled with regret, bitterness, and bad decisions. At a certain point, it becomes clear that the old man has actually died and is watching his own life.
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Title: Metropolitans
Character: Mate Pajalin
Released: September 26, 2022
Type: TV
A year and a half after a strong earthquake and the pandemic starting, tenants from the damaged old city center move to the outskirts of the city. Tensions rise between people irritated by their own differences and by change.
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Escape to the Sea
Title: Escape to the Sea
Character: Partisan Commander
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
A German soldier, after avoiding death in a Partisan raid, wanders through the unforgiving mountainous terrain of an unfamiliar country, helplessly seeking salvation.
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Murina
Title: Murina
Character: Alberto
Released: April 8, 2022
Type: Movie
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
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The Master Butcher
Title: The Master Butcher
Character: Zirkusdirektor
Released: December 27, 2019
Type: Movie
After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.
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Zagreb Equinox
Title: Zagreb Equinox
Character: Uberovac
Released: July 13, 2019
Type: Movie
Six young friends decide that the 2015 spring equinox is a great reason to throw a party. Two of them will prepare the "venue", the other two will get the booze, and the last two will get the weed. And right before midnight, they'll meet at the party to welcome the arrival of spring. Or not, depending on how they handle the situations they find themselves in while trying to run their seemingly simple errands, in which we get to know Zagreb, its life and nightlife, and the characters get to know themselves and each other.
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Diagnosis
Title: Diagnosis
Character: Petar
Released: July 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Life of a psychiatrist will suddenly change when a new patient comes into his life.
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Keep Calm and Snap
Title: Keep Calm and Snap
Released: April 4, 2019
Type: Movie
The Prišt brothers are at a crossroads, preparing for their acting studies. Krešo, the older brother, has a hump and too much confidence. The other brother, Kruno, who can’t properly pronounce some words, finds out he has failed his entrance exam at the Faculty of Forestry and his girlfriend has left him. They chose their neighbour Črček, who lives in the same building, to supervise their preparations for studying acting. Črček is one of those characters who can’t do anything right, but at the same time he is likeable, chatty and ready to help.
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Title: Civil Servant
Character: Ajatolah
Released: March 24, 2019
Type: TV
This is a modern and exciting story about BIA agents in Belgrade who eliminate the most dangerous threats to Serbia behind the eyes of the public on a daily basis and lead the struggle in the labyrinth of domestic and foreign intrigues.
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What a Country!
Title: What a Country!
Character: Šef tajne službe
Released: December 17, 2018
Type: Movie
A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.
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F20
Title: F20
Character: Tata
Released: September 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Martina starts a relationship with Filip, a young man who spends most of his time playing video games. After Martina convinces Filip to steal her father's money to go to the Party Beach, everything turns into a bloody nightmare.
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The Avalanche
Title: The Avalanche
Character: Vodoinstalater
Released: October 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Franjo has disappeared in an avalanche. He’s left behind two wives and two daughters. An avalanche of unexpected events occurs when he comes back from the dead to announce to his family that he’s gay.
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Title: Guardian of the Castle
Character: Vlado Škoro
Released: September 18, 2017
Type: TV
Croatia in the 1980-s: in terms of politics, things are happening that will change the map of the Europe by the end of the century. The National Security Service (UDBA) is still one of the most active and most effective intelligent communities in Europe. Boris Biscan, UDBA's old employee, is a witness to all the changes going about - the professionals are replaced by the criminals from UDBA, who are willing to deal with political emigrants, offering them political protection in return for their services. Boris is lost in this new world, and the old one has obviously come to its end.
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Anka
Title: Anka
Character: Sudac
Released: February 23, 2017
Type: Movie
A fairy tale set in the bucolic countryside of Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Anka, an orphan girl, bravely sets off in the pursuit of a home, facing the hardships of life, and ultimately finds her place with the help of a magical world and its mysterious creatures.
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A Perfect Day
Title: A Perfect Day
Character: Commander at the Checkpoint
Released: August 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.
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Flower Square
Title: Flower Square
Character: Ministar
Released: April 11, 2013
Type: Movie
An obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso.
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Simon Magus
Title: Simon Magus
Character: Vedran
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
After finding out by chance that his ex-girlfriend Mina’s mother died, Simon decides to steal her body to provoke cathartic processes in Mina. Mina hasn’t been in contact with her mother for years because of some dark family secrets. Simon plans to keep the body hidden for a few days and then revive it. He possesses the powers needed to do this. However, the body is stolen from Simon and he has great difficulty retrieving it. Unaware of Simon’s problems, Mina confronts her past and the emotional baggage she’s been carrying for years.
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Rat mal, wer zur Hochzeit kommt
Title: Rat mal, wer zur Hochzeit kommt
Character: Pfarrer
Released: April 30, 2012
Type: Movie
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Yugoslav Secret Services
Title: Yugoslav Secret Services
Character: Alojzije Stepinac
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The series will be discussed how the Yugoslav secret service methods mimicked the NKVD, about 2 million files, ie one agent to 10 people), torture, false testimony, show trials, executions without trial, secret places of burial, Titova obsession with the secret services, the structure of the secret service, the awards for the executioners, methods of recruiting staff, collateral victims, etc
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Spots
Title: Spots
Character: Lanin tata
Released: July 19, 2011
Type: Movie
Lana (17) is a girl from an average Zagreb family. She‘s getting ready to spend the night with her boyfriend Igor (25). On their way to the concert they decide to make love in a taxi owned by Igor‘s friend. This should‘ve been Lana‘s first time. Things went wrong when their intimate encounter got interrupted by the noises from another taxi. There was a robbery and attempted murder going on. Lana wanted to stop their love game, but Igor has forced her to continue. Lana ran away from him and met Irena (17) in a nightclub, a troubled girl who‘s been spending the night in search for drugs. A series of circumstances join Lana and Irena together while they wander the city.
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Title: Tito
Character: Archbishop Stepinac
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: TV
Tito is a 2010 Croatian documentary television miniseries about Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. The first episode aired March 19, 2010. The series is a co-production by Croatian Radiotelevision and Mediteran film. The two first collaborated on the series Long Dark Night, which at a top audience of 1.8 million viewers was one of the most-watched domestic productions in history. After the announcement of the documentary, Broz's granddaughter Saša announced that she and her family would use all means possible to obstruct filming. Tito cost a reported 1 million euros to make.
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In the Land of Wonders
Title: In the Land of Wonders
Character: Gospodin
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Still today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO military training range, a nine-year-old girl called Alica, together with her uncle Valentin, collects shells and scraps of grenades to sell on the black market. Valentin dies of cancer, Alica's diagnosis is not good but there's no money for therapy. Alica's journey through the Land of Wonders begins.
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Remember Vukovar
Title: Remember Vukovar
Released: July 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Illustrates the story of the siege of the Croatian town of Vukovar by the JNA and Serbian paramilitary forces in the autumn of 1991.
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No One's Son
Title: No One's Son
Character: Inspector
Released: May 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Ivan is a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War. His father, Izidor, was a well-known political prisoner in the former Yugoslavia, and is now standing as an independent candidate for the Croatian Parliament. Then a face from the past re-appears: an impoverished Serbian refugee called Simo, who has recently returned to the town. As an ex-communist official, Simo imprisoned Izidor decades ago. He knows certain facts about Izidor that could destroy his reputation and wreck his political campaign. Simo demands money, in return for his silence and he also has a secret rendezvous with Ivan's mother, Ana. Soon a long-buried secret surfaces once more - with huge repercussions for Ivan. He starts to provoke hard-line Croatians by singing Serbian nationalistic songs, daring them to kill him.
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The Recollection Thief
Title: The Recollection Thief
Released: July 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Approximately a month before the death of the first Croatian president and in the wake of parliamentary elections in December 1999, a diplomat from the Croatian embassy in Paris is reported missing. He is a doctor of French literature who returned from Canada in 1991. Gawain Skok, who took part in the War for Independence and defended Vukovar, starts a search.
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I Have to Sleep, My Angel
Title: I Have to Sleep, My Angel
Character: Otac
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Goran remembers his childhood: in the early 70s, he was only 9 years old, adoring football and awaiting a prestigious basketball game between Yugoslavia and the US. But then his parents, Ante and Gordana, decided to divorce, leaving him in turmoil and sadness.
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Libertas
Title: Libertas
Character: Luka
Released: July 1, 2006
Type: Movie
The film is set in mid-16th century, at a time when the entire eastern Mediterranean is dominated by two great empires, the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, with the small but wealthy maritime republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) managing to maintain its independence through diplomatic agreements.
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Sleep Sweet, My Darling
Title: Sleep Sweet, My Darling
Character: Redatelj
Released: July 22, 2005
Type: Movie
"Sleep Sweet, My Darling" shows a bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.
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First Class Thieves
Title: First Class Thieves
Character: Dramski prvak
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a reformist warden. Ironically the troupe performs a play named The State Thief, a play about thieves for thieves.
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Long Dark Night
Title: Long Dark Night
Character: Franz Kirchmeier
Released: March 7, 2004
Type: Movie
"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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Below the Line
Title: Below the Line
Character: Inspektor
Released: July 23, 2003
Type: Movie
A young man finds himself torn between the love for his girlfriend and his family's hardship.
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The Horseman
Title: The Horseman
Character: Andrija
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
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Title: The Enclave
Released: April 14, 2002
Type: TV
The Enclave is a three-part series directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, about the fall of Srebrenica and the Dutch government's failure to protect the town from attackers. The series originally aired by Netherlands Public Broadcasting. The series was made in 2002. It has since been condensed into a movie and is regularly shown on US free satellite network LinkTV. In the original series, each episode describes the Srebrenica massacre in three different points of view and how it continues to control the characters. In the movie version, only two points of view were shown. The following episode descriptions were taken from the Dutch Public Broadcasting website.
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God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Title: God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Character: Direktor
Released: February 20, 2002
Type: Movie
The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
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Behind Enemy Lines
Title: Behind Enemy Lines
Character: Technician
Released: November 30, 2001
Type: Movie
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer, Admiral Reigart, decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.
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Queen of the Night
Title: Queen of the Night
Character: Doktor Janda
Released: November 15, 2001
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Osijek in 1968. Seventeen-year-old Tomo is the greatest hope the town of Osijek has for winning the Junior Cup of Yugoslavia. Josip Broz Tito himself is expected to come to Osijek to open the competition. Nevertheless, Tomo is more interested in girls than in rowing. The beautiful prostitute Betika and a lovely girl named Jasna have captured his heart. Unfortunately, he has impotence issues of which even his doctors are unaware. Therefore, is unable to realize his sexual fantasies. Finally, he ends up in a hospital where local members of the political elite persuade him to compete in the cup. These pressures come to a head when his father is taken to prison as a political suspect.
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Slow Surrender
Title: Slow Surrender
Released: June 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Petar Gorjan is a 40-year-old successful propagandist and cynical strategist of consumerist society that is faced with family and identity crisis. He embarks on a journey from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, transporting humanitarian aid in his off-road vehicle, and on his way he will be accompanied by slightly mentally troubled Lukas and a vagabond girl.
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Go, Yellow
Title: Go, Yellow
Character: Čabraja
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Ivek and Kruno are best friends, both passionate supporters of a suburban Zagreb football club. When a nouveau riche businessman Čabraja enters the club's managing board with ambitious plans, and soon becomes the club's president, the two friends are divided. While Kruno is enthusiastic over the club's newly found success, Ivek is distrustful towards Čabraja and does not approve of his shady methods. Their friendship becomes increasingly strained.
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Alone
Title: Alone
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Minimalist, bizarre and surreal story that takes place in some sort of post-cataclysmic future, where the main hero collects tracks which were the only connection of his with the environment known today.
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Title: Ours and Yours
Character: Pater Marko
Released: April 16, 2000
Type: TV
While expecting their child, a student couple announce to their parents that they will marry. Both sets of parents are against it, but when the proposal takes place, the things take unexpected turn.
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Celestial Body
Title: Celestial Body
Character: Senna
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club, and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.
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Garcia
Title: Garcia
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Dramatic story of a returnee from Argentina who tries to find answers to the unfortunate events from the past.
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Madonna
Title: Madonna
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
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Transatlantic
Title: Transatlantic
Character: Austrijski časnik
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.
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Russian Meat
Title: Russian Meat
Character: Hrvoje
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Determined to find her sister's killers, Ida Palamar decides to become a prostitute in an elite Zagreb brothel where the murder probably took place. The brothel is run by Vuk, violent and drug-crazed arms smuggler, protected by the police. Ida's only ally in her quest is a young bouncer.
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Night for Listening
Title: Night for Listening
Character: Tvrtko
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Classical music program on one Zagreb radio station is suddenly interrupted when disturbed war veteran, armed with hadngrenade and explosives, breaks in with strange demands and convincing threats.
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The Price of Life
Title: The Price of Life
Character: Dušan
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
At the end of 1991, a prisoner Ivan escapes from Serbian camp. He finds a hideout in the property of a wealthy Serbian landowner Stevan, who eventually finds him and offers him two choices - to submit him to the authorities, or to make Ivan work for him. Ivan accepts the latter and while staying on the farm he gradually introduces the landowner's deranged family. He also meets his daughter-in-law Anica, a beautiful Croatian woman married to landowner's bloodthirsty son who fights in Croatia. A secret love affair is being developed between the two Croats.
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The Golden Years
Title: The Golden Years
Character: Mislav Petras
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The crash of student strike, also the crash of "Croatian Spring" in December of 1971, causes a violent separation of its three participants: A member of student leaders Jakov, his brother Mislav and Jakov's girlfriend Suncana. Jakov escapes abroad, while Mislav and Suncana remain in Zagreb believing that nothing bad can happen to them. Meanwhile, Mislav is getting arrested and Suncana stays alone. 20 years later, Jakov returns from Australia looking for a new beginning. He stays at Mislav's who married a girl from a rich family, after being released from prison and became a dentist. Soon, the brothers discover that the scelator from the past were not buried after all. The case of Suncana Krizic, who got killed in 1972 under mysterious circumstances, becomes Jakov's obsession in finding the truth.
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Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Title: Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Character: Doktor
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.
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Title: Stylish in the Guests
Character: Lovrinović
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A widower from Split arrives in Zagreb for a medical checkup and disrupts his son’s family everyday.
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Title: Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Character: Matko Bebić
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The story begins when we learn that the lives of the main characters, although quite different and seemingly unrelated, are actually intertwined on multiple levels. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, a great friendship and business partnership of Matko and Zoran rudely ended.
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Title: Balkan Inc.
Character: Zac Lisjak
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Based on the novels "Bijela jutra" (White Mornings) and "Marševski korak" (March Step) by Robert Naprta, who is also the writer of TV Series "Balkan Inc.". led by All Star Cast. The main character is a cop who browses trough the streets and city's underground where he finds himself in a series of unsolved murders, drugs, smugglers, corrupt government officials, sex, hookers and blackmail. His Name is Marko Prilika - called Cens (Chance). Even though he's a cop, he's no stranger in a world of cocaine use and hookers.