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Mira Furlan

Mira Furlan (September 7, 1955 – January 20, 2021) was a Croatian singer and actress of theatre, film and TV in the former Yugoslavia. She emigrated to the U.S. with her husband, Goran Gajić, in November 1991, due to the intolerable political circumstances in her homeland. Ms. Furlan starred in the Warner Brothers TV-series "Babylon 5" (1994) ... more

Mira Furlan (September 7, 1955 – January 20, 2021) was a Croatian singer and actress of theatre, film and TV in the former Yugoslavia.

She emigrated to the U.S. with her husband, Goran Gajić, in November 1991, due to the intolerable political circumstances in her homeland. Ms. Furlan starred in the Warner Brothers TV-series "Babylon 5" (1994) as "Ambassador Delenn" (Sci-Fi Universe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Genre TV-series 1996 and 1997).

Ms. Furlan's film credits include leading roles in over 25 films. She has appeared regularly on Yugoslav Television, playing leading roles in numerous series and TV-films. She has received all the highest awards in her former country, both for her stage and film work, including two Golden Arenas (Yugoslav Oscars) for Best Actress.

In the former Yugoslavia, Mira was a member of the Croatian National Theatre and a frequent guest star at major theatres in the whole country.

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Twice Born
(2012)
Drama, Romance, War
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.
Runtime:
127 min
7.4
17%
34
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When Father Was Away on Business
(1985)
Drama
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from pri...
Runtime:
136 min
Director:
Emir Kusturica
Cast:
Miki Manojlović, Mirjana Karanović, Mustafa Nadarević, Mira Furlan, Pavle Vuisić
7.8
100%
N/A
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning
(1998)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Michael Vejar
Cast:
Bruce Boxleitner, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Andreas Katsulas, Peter Jurasik
7.7
N/A
N/A
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Babylon 5: The Gathering
(1993)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races toge...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Richard Compton
Cast:
Michael O’Hare, Tamlyn Tomita, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Peter Jurasik
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace
(1998)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Jesús Salvador Treviño
Cast:
Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Mira Furlan, Shari Belafonte, Stephen Furst
7.0
N/A
N/A
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The Tour
(2008)
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, ...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Goran Marković
Cast:
Tihomir Stanić, Sergej Trifunović, Sergej Trifunović, Jelena Đokić, Dragan Nikolić
7.2
N/A
N/A
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The Beauty of Vice
(1986)
Comedy, Drama
In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband a...
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Živko Nikolić
Cast:
Mira Furlan, Milutin 'Mima' Karadžić, Petar Božović, Petar Božović, Alain Noury
8.0
N/A
N/A
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Circus Columbia
(2010)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A story set in the former Yugoslavia and centered on a guy who returns to Herzegovina from Germany with plenty of cash and hopes for a good new life.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Danis Tanović
Cast:
Predrag Miki Manojlović, Mira Furlan, Boris Ler, Jelena Stupljanin
7.3
80%
57
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Maternal Half-Brothers
(1988)
Drama
This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Zdravko Šotra
Cast:
Žarko Laušević, Mira Furlan, Slavko Štimac, Sonja Savić, Petar Božović
7.9
N/A
N/A
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In the Jaws of Life
(1984)
Comedy
Two parallel tales about two modern women. One is Štefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who desperately tries to find the man of her dreams. The other story is about a woman director who is making the movie about Štefica and has the same problem.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Rajko Grlić
Cast:
Gorica Popović, Vitomira Lončar, Bogdan Diklić, Miodrag Krivokapić, Mira Furlan
7.7
N/A
N/A
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Hi, Inspector
(1985)
Comedy
A street cop is picked by the national security service in order to carry out an important and delicate task. His mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a dangerous international cabal of homosexuals.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Zoran Čalić
Cast:
Velimir 'Bata' Živojinović, Boro Stjepanović, Nikola Simić, Miodrag Andrić, Mira Furlan
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Silent Gunpowder
(1990)
Drama, War
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisa...
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić
Cast:
Mustafa Nadarević, Branislav Lečić, Fabijan Sovagovic, Mira Furlan, Boro Stjepanović
7.4
N/A
N/A
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Cyclops
(1982)
Drama
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
Runtime:
138 min
Director:
Antun Vrdoljak
Cast:
Frano Lasić, Relja Basic, María Baxa, Ivo Gregurević, Mustafa Nadarević
7.7
N/A
N/A
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Poltroon
(1989)
Comedy
In a typical Yugoslav company a relationship is developing between poltroon and CEO.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Svetislav Prelić
Cast:
Ljubisa Samardzic, Zoran Cvijanovic, Mira Furlan, Radmila Živković, Maja Sabljić
7.1
N/A
N/A
The Abandoned
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The Abandoned
(2010)
Drama
The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it describes the consequences of war casualties and immense injustice that war brought most helpless, the children.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Adis Bakrač
Cast:
Tony Grga, Mirsad Tuka, Mira Furlan, Mirela Lambić, Dragan Marinković
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Journalist
(1979)
Drama
Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Fadil Hadžić
Cast:
Rade Serbedzija, Fabijan Sovagovic, Stevo Žigon, Mladen Budišćak, Milena Zupančič
7.3
N/A
N/A
Three for Happiness
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Three for Happiness
(1985)
Drama, Romance
A pretty factory girl falls for an ex con. He's still in love with his ex wife. Love triangle soon becomes even larger.
Runtime:
100 min
7.6
N/A
N/A
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America, Here We Come!
(2014)
Comedy
Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge teddy bear, cross the ocean to perform in New York. Not everything goes according to plan th...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Razvan Savescu
Cast:
Mihai Calin, Tania Popa, Adrian Vancica, Ioana Blaj, Mira Furlan
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Horvat's Choice
(1985)
Drama
It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy...
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Eduard Galic
Cast:
Rade Serbedzija, Milena Dravić, Mira Furlan, Fabijan Sovagovic, Zvonko Lepetić
8.5
N/A
N/A
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Spy In High Heels
(1988)
Comedy
A lady manager of newly formed record house places his administrator, disguised as a cleaning lady, in competing record house. She needs to get the records of some world-famous star, and to provide in that way banking credits for building of studio. After many troubles and comic situations, in which the alleged cleaning lady gets becau...
Runtime:
80 min
Director:
Milan Jelić
Cast:
Milan 'Lane' Gutović, Milena Dravić, Mira Furlan
5.4
N/A
N/A
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With Mom
(2013)
Drama
While her middle class, socialist family is falling apart around her, Berina, a young artist, tries to cope both with her awakening sexuality and her mother Jasna's imminent death. Her father cannot accept the fact that life is already happening without his wife. Her younger sister Luna cannot or does not want to grow up. For everybody...
Runtime:
80 min
Director:
Faruk Lončarević
Cast:
Marija Pikić, Mira Furlan, Branko Đurić, Edina Kordić, Sanja Vejnović
7.0
N/A
N/A
Heads or Tails
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Heads or Tails
(1983)
Drama
A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić
Cast:
Mladen Nelević, Mira Furlan, Zijah Sokolović, Vladislava Milosavljević, Semka Sokolović-Bertok
6.6
N/A
N/A
Golden Apple
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Golden Apple
(1986)
Drama
In the first year of freedom after WW2, a poor family from rocky Herzegovina moves to fertile province of Vojvodina hoping for a better life. However, there they face different type of troubles following the Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948. Destinies of individual members of this family are about to have a tragic epilogue.
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Nikola Stojanović
Cast:
Danilo Lazović, Ljuba Tadić, Nenad Nenadović, Nenad Nenadović, Nada Đurevska
7.5
N/A
N/A
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Seaburners
(2014)
Drama
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which he keeps a secret from Denise. When Hamit learns that Denise is being sent back to her h...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Melisa Önel
Cast:
Mira Furlan, Timuçin Esen, Ahmet Rifat Sungar
4.5
N/A
N/A
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Take a Deep Breath
(2004)
Drama
Saša, a Belgrade University law student, tells her parents that she and her boyfriend Stefan are moving to Canada. That same night Saša and Stefan suffer a car accident. Saša wakes up in hospital and meets Stefan's charming and clever sister Lana, a photographer living in Paris. Stefan remains in hospital to recover. Saša finds out tha...
Runtime:
80 min
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
(2012)
Drama
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
Runtime:
113 min
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