Biography
Mirjana Karanović (born 28 January 1957) is a Serbian actress, film director and screenwriter.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Pavilion
2025
After years of worsening life conditions, a group of nursing home residents decide to start an uprising against doctors and the administration.

Mother Mara
2025
as Mara Gvozdenović
Mara, a successful businesswoman and single mother, is heartbroken after her son Nemanja’s untimely death. She becomes emotionally detached, refusing ...

Mother Mara
2025
Director, Writer
Mara, a successful businesswoman and single mother, is heartbroken after her son Nemanja’s untimely death. She becomes emotionally detached, refusing ...

Toma
2021
as Kosana Zdravković
Biopic about Serbian folk singer Toma Zdravković, the man who is remembered not only for his songs and unique way he was singing them, but also as a b...

Life of a Mutt
2021
as Dona (voice)
Through seven scenes, the film follows the life and destinies of stray dogs from the margins of our society, leading us to reconsider our attitude tow...

Mare
2020
as Marina majka
Routinely, but with dedication, Mare runs her small family’s modest household, even though a new washing machine is not the only thing that is missing...

The Diary of Diana B.
2019
as Mira
Firmly believing her own life is no more precious than the lives of the innocent people being persecuted, with the help of a few friends, Diana embark...

The Right One
2019
as Majka
A possessive mother, a loving son, the fiancée's first visit, a mute witness... Four players around a pie.

The Factory
2019
Five uniquely moving films about motherhood—bubbling up in the grocery store, the cemetery, or even a car ride—come together in this omnibus film set ...

Second Chance
2019
as Angelina
Second Chance interweaves three stories of three women living in the same block of flats, creating a kaleidoscopic observation of the e...

Catalina
2017
as Mother
Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself...

The Other Side of Everything
2017
as Herself
For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history an...

Heart with No Cure
2017
as Nata
An older but still attractive widow falls in love with a younger man, which becomes the main gossip of her village and family.

Requiem for Mrs. J
2017
as Gospođa J
After she lost her husband and her job, Mrs. J is sitting in her living room with a gun in her hand.

Train Driver's Diary
2016
as Jagoda
Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a sto...

A Good Wife
2016
as Milena
When 50-year-old Milena finds out about the terrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, while simultaneously learning of her own cancer diagnosis, s...

A Good Wife
2016
Director, Writer
When 50-year-old Milena finds out about the terrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, while simultaneously learning of her own cancer diagnosis, s...

Next to Me
2015
as Direktorka škole
After being attacked by a group of masked hooligans, Olja discovers that some of her students were responsible. She decides to teach them a lesson by ...

Monument to Michael Jackson
2014
as Darinka
In a dying town in Serbia daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. When an old communist-era monument is remov...

Three Windows and a Hanging
2014
as The journalist
In a traditional village in Kosova, a year after the war (2000) when people are rebuilding their lives, the female school teacher Lushe is driven by h...

Cure: The Life of Another
2014
as Grandmother
Teens Linda and Eta are inseparable friends, though they have plenty of disagreements, but one horrific argument has unexpected consequences.

The Reaper
2014
as Mirjana
Haunted by his dark past, a labourer in a small Croatian village has a series of fateful encounters over the course of a single night.

Equals
2014
as (segment "Katarina")
An omnibus film on children's rights and the problems that the youngest members of our society have to face. Each story tackles a specific theme and h...

The Tree and the Swing
2013
as Nina
Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship.

Death of a Man in the Balkans
2012
as Mušterija
A lonely composer committed suicide in his apartment in Belgrade. Unaware of the camera catching them, neighbours and other people, shows their inapp...

The Whirl
2012
as Inspektorka
Three childhood friends from Belgrade, Serbia, whose destinies change as they become adults during the wartime 1990s.

Loveless Zoritsa
2012
as Majka
The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl who...

On the Path
2010
as Nađa
Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a ...

Have I Told You I've Been Abused?
2010
as Herself
This docudrama is based on the genuine testimonies of eight women who survived sexual violence in childhood and in the past years addressed the servic...

Here and There
2009
as Olga
Robert, a jaded middle-aged New Yorker, travels to Belgrade to make some quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers. The plan goes awr...

Wait for Me and I Will Not Come
2009
as Anđa
Alek (Gordan Kicic) is desperate because Teodora (Milica Mihajlovic) has left him after a three years being together. He is suffering, he is apathetic...

Someone Is Still Waiting
2009
as Majka
1st STORY: The Waiting Room. Vanja and Dara, women of the middle-age, from different social status, met in the hall of the waiting room of a hospital,...

Jar Full of Air
2007
as Ljubica
In the year 2000, few workers spend their days on a mining site in silent desperation, planing a strike and lamenting over their lives and bleak futur...

Mirush
2007
as Hava
Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Osl...

Fraulein
2006
as Ruža
Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on ...

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
2006
as Esma
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Go West
2005
as Ranka
In the 1990s, the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim ...

Life Is a Miracle
2004
as Nada
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the...

Witnesses
2003
as Majka
Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about ...

Strawberry in the Supermarket
2003
as Chefin
An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted his grandmother.

Cabaret Balkan
1998
as Natalija
20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe
1998
as Direktorka
The story takes place in 1993 Serbia, torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his friend, a painte...

Three Summer Days
1997
as Gazdarica
Serbian film about the life of refugees from Bosnia is Serbia during the war years.

Underground
1995
as Vera
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Better Than Escape
1993
as Radmila
A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a ...

The Little One
1991
as Božidarka
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ide...

Migrations II
1989
as Evdokija Božić
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lota...

Time of Miracles
1989
as Marta
September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the fresco...

Meeting Place
1989
as Jelena Katić
During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Mrs. Stremnicka
1989
as Isidora Sekulić
Oppressed by the great sadness of the life, in her mid-30s Isidora agrees to marry the Polish doctor Emil Stremnicki without love. She lives with him ...

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...

Heart and Her Children
1988
as Srce
Story of the early maturity of a boy, which confirms the old pedagogical truth that life, joy and trouble that man carries with himself, are best teac...

Marjuca or Death
1987
as Marjuča
The town of Split in the 1930s during Italian occupation. A boy torn between kid's games and sexual awakening finds more about the latter at the nearb...

On the Road to Katanga
1987
as Pevačica Žana
Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to t...

Ever-Ready Women
1987
as Majstor
Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.

Promised Land
1986
as Marta
Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by ...

A Swanky Pumpkin
1986
as Fema
The first TV adaptation of Jovan Sterija Popovic's comic novel about a woman who doesn't want to be known as a craftsman's wife but to become noble, a...

When Father Was Away on Business
1985
as Senija 'Sena' Zolj, majka
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....

The Tombola
1985
as Olga, Dušanova žena
Two factory workers with gambling addictions invest all their wages in a sweepstakes that will take place in the factory's bar without realizing that ...

Truckers Ride Again
1984
as Alapača
New adventures of truck drivers Jare and Paja, long-time fellow associates and close friends. Jare is forced to pay off his debt for the loans he was ...

Two Halves of a Heart
1982
as Majka
A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce.

The Fall of Italy
1981
as Mare
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resisten...

Handymen, Handymen
1980
as Dunja
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the s...

Petria's Wreath
1980
as Petrija
This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of ...

The Absurd Scam
N/A
The film is conceived as a video game where every link in society, from the highest to the lowest has its role in creating the perfect vision of fraud...