Movies Like Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)

Quo Vadis, Aida? is a 2021 drama, history, war film from Jasmila Žbanić with a MovieMagicScore of 7.6/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Twice Born and A Perfect Day.

Drama History War

Twice Born

2012

Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.

7.3

MagicScore

A Perfect Day

2015

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.

6.7

MagicScore

No Man's Land

2001

Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?

7.5

MagicScore

Demons of War

1998

A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will also replace Keller as CO. When the camp's RTO receives a communication from a downed Norwegian chopper, Keller ignores his standing orders and leads a platoon to rescue the crew.

6.5

MagicScore

Behind Enemy Lines

2001

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.

6.4

MagicScore

Welcome to Sarajevo

1997

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.

6.4

MagicScore

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

2006

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

6.8

MagicScore

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

1996

In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

7.9

MagicScore

Sarajevo

2014

The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska and written by Martin Ambrosch, focusing on the examining magistrate Dr. Leo Pfeffer (Florian Teichtmeister) investigating the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Trying to do his job in a time of lawlessness and violence, intrigues and betrayal, Leo struggles to maintain his integrity and save his love, Marija, and her father, prominent Serbian merchant. But the events of Sarajevo have set into motion an inescapable course of events that will escalate to become … the Great War.

6.2

MagicScore

#10

The Black Cannon Incident

1985

A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department, but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse series of Party meetings.

7.6

MagicScore

#11

Chuck Norris vs Communism

2015

In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.

7.1

MagicScore

#12

Warriors

1999

If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.

6.7

MagicScore

#13

Fear and Trembling

2003

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.

6.4

MagicScore

#14

Beautiful People

1999

In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.

6.0

MagicScore

#15

Fremont

2023

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.

6.2

MagicScore

#16

Footprints on the Moon

1975

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

6.2

MagicScore

#17

In the Land of Blood and Honey

2011

During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.

5.8

MagicScore

#18

The Woman in the Fifth

2011

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

5.2

MagicScore

#19

On the Path

2010

Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness...

6.5

MagicScore

#20

The Battle of Sutjeska

1973

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.

6.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Quo Vadis, Aida??

The top films similar to Quo Vadis, Aida? by MovieMagicScore are Twice Born (7.3), A Perfect Day (6.7), No Man's Land (7.5). Each shares drama/history/war themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Quo Vadis, Aida? worth watching?

Quo Vadis, Aida? holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.6/10 from 446 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Quo Vadis, Aida??

Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021) is a drama, history, war film directed by Jasmila Žbanić, starring Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović, Boris Ler.

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This ranked list pairs Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021), a drama and history and war film from Jasmila Žbanić, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Jasna Đuričić take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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