Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
The Magpie Strategy
TITLE DETAILS

The Magpie Strategy

1987-06-17 · 96 min · ★ 8.0

Drama

Adventures of an idealistic old Communist whose treasured watch is stolen by a magpie but who overcomes all difficulties.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Zlatko Lavanić
Production companies
Forum Sarajevo, Centar FRZ SR Srbije, Televizija Sarajevo, The Cannon Group
Countries
Yugoslavia
Status
Released

Top Cast

Predrag LakovićPredrag Laković
Radmila ŽivkovićRadmila Živković
Branko CvejićBranko Cvejić
Zvonko LepetićZvonko Lepetić
Davor DujmovićDavor Dujmović
Boro StjepanovićBoro Stjepanović
Nada ĐurevskaNada Đurevska
Šukrana Gusani
Semka Sokolović-BertokSemka Sokolović-Bertok
Željko Ninčić
Bećir Račvanin
Zaim Muzaferija
Zdravko Biogradlija
Slobodan Velimirović
Ranko GučevacRanko Gučevac

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

Gigi & Nate
★ 7.6
Gigi & Nate2022Drama

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.

The Young One
★ 7.0
The Young One1960Drama

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Hardball
★ 6.5
Hardball2001Drama

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

Eleanor the Great
★ 6.8
Eleanor the Great2025Drama

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

The Enforcer
★ 7.0
The Enforcer2022Drama

A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.

O.G.
★ 5.9
O.G.2018Drama

Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.

Girl in the Box
★ 6.7
Girl in the Box2016Drama

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

Blood Ties
★ 6.1
Blood Ties2013Drama

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

Bastard Out of Carolina
★ 7.1
Bastard Out of Carolina1996Drama

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

The Organization
★ 6.3
The Organization1971Drama

After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.

Cardboard Boxer
★ 6.5
Cardboard Boxer2016Drama

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

Fast Girls
★ 6.0
Fast Girls2012Drama

A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

Home
★ 6.7
Home2021Drama

An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.

Black Site
★ 6.0
Black Site2022Drama

A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.

Kisses
★ 7.1
Kisses2008Drama

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

The Padre
★ 5.9
The Padre2018Drama

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.

Battle of the Year
★ 6.8
Battle of the Year2013Drama

A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.

Beast
★ 7.5
Beast2026Drama

MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.

Penguin Bloom
★ 6.9
Penguin Bloom2021Drama

When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life.

Suburbicon
★ 5.9
Suburbicon2017Drama

In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

Similar titles

Deadly Secrets by the Lake
★ 4.7
Deadly Secrets by the Lake2017Drama

A decorated NYPD detective returns to her hometown after her sister is charged with the murder of her boss and attempts to make amends with her estranged family while exposing the dark underbelly of a long-suppressed secret that threatens to tear the town apart.

Unschuldig
★ 7.5
Unschuldig2018Drama

A condemned man comes out of prison and does his utmost to find the true murderer of his wife in order to get his children back. This is the starting point for the touching crime drama "Innocent" with crime scene commissar Felix Klare in the lead role. He plays with great intensity the family man who wants to bring the truth to light on his own. For relatives, witnesses and even the police, this could be a problem. Between the fronts, Britta Hammelstein becomes an indomitable commissioner, exposing a fatal network of false statements and investigation errors.

The '60s
★ 6.2
The '60s1999Drama

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

Tiefe Wasser
★ 3.4
Tiefe Wasser1983Drama

Der Untergang der Pamir
★ 7.5
Der Untergang der Pamir2006Drama

The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.

Castles and Cottages
★ 8.0
Castles and Cottages1957Drama

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the count gets divided amongst the farmers, Anton receives a piece and hopes to be able to work freely. But an old debt and intrigue keep Anton and his family from finding peace. The farmers of the village begin to discover their own power when Annegret, Anton's daughter, leaves. Is a new beginning possible for Anton? This film paints an impressive panorama of the development of a minor village in Mecklenburg from the end of the war to the uprising of 17 June 1953.

The Secret of the Whales
★ 2.5
The Secret of the Whales2010Drama

In New Zealand, a scientist, his family and down-on-his-luck investigator are trying to prove that the beaching of the local whale population is caused by activities of a corporation which is searching for natural gas in the area.

Poster unavailable
★ 9.0
Eine Art von Zorn1984Drama

An Iraqi secret service agent is murdered. The only witness is a woman, but she disappeared without a trace. The journalist Piet Maas actually tracks down Lucia, the murdered man's lover, and does a sensational interview with her. Piet should stick to the matter. He has the feeling that Lucia is hiding the important thing. His suspicions are confirmed. She is in possession of the murdered man's valuable records, which she wants to sell. Piet offers himself to Lucia as a broker...

Anne of Green Gables
★ 8.1
Anne of Green Gables1985Drama

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.

Poster unavailable
★ 2.0
Paparazzo2007Drama

Brothers
★ 5.6
Brothers2017Drama

A young man is searching for his place in the world. He finds his way, religion and his "brothers" in the radical Islam. What begins with the wish of helping people in Syria leads Jan through religious murder as an ISIS-soldier and back to his home county Germany.

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
★ 7.9
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel1987Drama

Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, develops a relationship with Gilbert Blythe, and finds herself at Kingsport Ladies' College. But while Anne enjoys the battles and the friends she makes, she finds herself returning to Avonlea.

Die Holzbaronin
★ 7.0
Die Holzbaronin2013Drama

A Black Forest timber industrialist has to assert herself against male supremacy and economic difficulties in the first half of the 20th century.

The House in Karp Lane
★ 7.5
The House in Karp Lane1965Drama

The film depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague’s Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also the owners of a stationery shop, who are driven to ruin by the German occupiers. The caretaker Glaser, who is of German descent, also comes under pressure when his son is arrested in a communist pub. To save his own skin, he informs on two young people who are active in the resistance.

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Presença de Anita - O Filme
★ 6.2
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Presença de Anita - O Filme2015Drama

Adapted from the series aired in 2001. Looking for inspiration during the holidays, Nando sees Anita as the ideal character for his novel. She lives in a townhouse where a passionate crime happened in the past. Intense, Anita seduces Nando and awakens to

Tom's Midnight Garden
★ 8.4
Tom's Midnight Garden1989Drama

Forced to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer holidays, Tom Long is lonely and bored, until one night he hears the clock strike 13. He suddenly finds himself transported to a magical Victorian garden of the 1880s and meets a girl.

December 20th
★ 5.4
December 20th1982Drama

Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.

Meines Vaters Straßenbahn
★ 3.0
Meines Vaters Straßenbahn1980Drama

Ralph grows up in pre-war Dresden as the eldest son of a principled and orderly streetcar conductor. With the rise to power of the Nazis, the war, the collapse and the hesitant new beginning, his firmly established middle-class world is also thrown off course. His father is one of the first to be called up to the front. His mother is left alone with the responsibility for Ralph and his younger brother Achim. In the air-raid shelter, during the nights of bombing and later in the daily struggle against misery and hunger, the mother quickly abandons all moral baggage and develops a pragmatic will to survive, for which she admires Ralph. At the same time, the boy is frightened by his mother's desperate claim to happiness because he perceives her affairs as a betrayal of his father, who has gradually faded into a symbol of a happy, carefree childhood.

Poster unavailable
★ 4.2
Utta Danella - Das Familiengeheimnis2004Drama

Journalist Jakob Goltz visits his parents at Bodenee for the first time in many years. The encounter with his hard-hearted mother Jonah tears up old wounds in Jacob, who has only sad memories of his childhood. When his wife Madlon plunges into an affair with Jonas estate manager Rudolf, Jacob's worst fears seem to be reaffirmed: All those who are close to his mother become unhappy. But Jakob does not suspect that Jonah has a sad secret in him

Thanks of a Grateful Nation
★ 4.8
Thanks of a Grateful Nation1998Drama

An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.