
Cynthia Ashperger
Actor · b. 1963 · Zagreb, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
Cynthia Ashperger is a Croatian-Canadian stage, film and television actress, writer, director and producer. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Studies in Drama and has taught Acting at Ryerson Theatre School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Movies15
MovieAn elderly woman alone in her house slips into a fantasy world that helps her come to terms with her waning grip on reality.
Of May
2024
Movie5.8FantasyHorrorDiana's husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can't remember why... As her memories begin to creep back in so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
Honey Bunch
2026 · 46 votes
Movie5.5HorrorDramaA troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge.
Violation
2020 · 139 votes
Movie3.2MysteryActionA young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.
Hidden Agenda
1999 · 8 votes
Movie8.0DramaA journalist meets a mysterious blonde. The meeting upsets his existence. Indeed, the man risks losing it completely.
- Movie9.0Comedy
In this comedy, Janko a thief and Vanja an author meet when Janko robs the house in which Vanja is writing his essay on cathedrals. In the ensuing brawl Janko steals the manuscript. A retrieval chase follows.
Movie4.6HistoryDramaJasmin, once a successful actor in former Yugoslavia, dreams of returning to Sarajevo to continue his career, but fears losing his son Daniel if he follows through with his plan.
The Waiting Room
2015 · 5 votes
Movie4.2DramaA young man finds a way to spend his last few days of freedom before joining the army. Set in eastern Bosnia in summer of 1968.
Movie8.0DramaA famous actress dying from cancer sets off to the mountains where she witnesses human misery, yet being fascinated by patients' faith in healing via intercessory from Mother of God.
Movie5.5ComedyA commander of the youth working action brigade wants his team to win the award, but the problem arises when a series of graffiti regarding his subordinates' dissatisfaction begins to appear on the facilities across the camp.
S.P.U.K.
1983 · 4 votes
Movie9.0DramaRomanceEastern Croatian front, December 1991. Famed violinist Ivan Lesjak, his best friend and their travelling band perform for the exhausted soldiers on the frontlines. During one of these private concerts, the camp they're staying in is bombareded by Serbian forces. In the midst of the chaos, Ivan's best friend looses and arm and dies from his injuries soon after. Traumtized by what he saw, Ivan decides to leave the country and keep his parents company in their viennese apartment, however, the lights and crowds of the metropolis further increase his anxiety, until he meets Marina, another Croatian refugee who came to work in Austria as a nurse.
Movie7.0DramaCrimeSettlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.
Movie5.3ComedyAn imposter and thief called Dumpling escapes prison and arrives to a respectable institute of doctor Strukl in Balm Sanatorium. The doctor is a specialist for reduction and gaining of weight, and wanted by many celebrities, especially because it is known that he has specialized in Switzerland. Dumpling, discovering that he is physically similar to doctor, and seeing his big chance in it, disables the doctor and takes his place at the sanatorium.
Movie6.5ComedyMirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interrupted when a pretty young woman moves into an apartment on the upper floor. With the help of his friend Stipe, Mirko tries to seduce the aspiring singer - but their plans don't work out as expected.
Anticasanova
1985 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DramaComedyNot shy of her beauty, intelect and charm, twenty-year-old Vanja Barbarić decides to leave her job in a small-town ironworking firm and goes on a cross-country roadtrip in search of her own place in Croatian society.
Series4
TV7.0DramaNick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick. Arrested for drug use, he's sentenced to do 1,500 hours of community service, somehow to be squeezed into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions and board meetings. Reluctantly, he's now The Guardian - a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult circumstances.
The Guardian
2001 · 60 votes
TV7.8DramaSci-Fi & FantasyA streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
Orphan Black
2013 · 1.5K votes
TV8.0DramaComedyAlice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.
This Is Wonderland
2004 · 2 votes
TV7.3DramaWar & PoliticsWith WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.