In Popular Culture
The Serbian Mafia has appeared in a number of films and video games. They have appeared in:
- Beck – Kartellen, Swedish crime thriller, about the case of a murdered restaurant owner
- Bröderna Jaukka, Swedish short film
- Grand Theft Auto IV, American open world action-adventure video game
- In China They Eat Dogs, Danish action-comedy, about a debt to Serb gangsters
- Layer Cake, British action film with Daniel Craig
- Leo, Swedish drama, about the revenge of his wife's murder
- Pusher trilogy, Danish action
- Bad Company, American action-comedy
- Paradiset, Swedish drama/thriller
- Snabba Cash, Swedish action, about criminal activities in Stockholm, one of the protagonists is a Serbian Mafia henchman
- Snabba Cash II
- Poslednji krug u Monci,Film is about Belgrade tomboy who managed to go to Italy and become the head of the Yugoslav mafia.
- Rane, Serbian Crime/Drama/Comedy
- Do koske,Serbian Crime/Action
- Vidimo se u čitulji, Serbian documentary about the organized crime in Belgrade during the 1990s
- Straight Business 2, Canadian International Short Film
- Straight Business 3, Canadian International Short Film
- The First Rule, by Robert Crais
- Captifs (international title Caged), is a 2010 French horror film directed and co-written by Yann Gozlan. The film is about a woman named Carole who is traumatized after seeing her friend Laura being killed by a dog twenty years ago. Carole works as an aid worker in former Yugoslavia and begins to leave for Kosovo with two co-workers when she is kidnapped by a gang of masked men who deal with human organ trafficking.
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