50 Movies Where Evil Won
3. Quo Vadis, Aida?
Plot: In July 1995, a UN translator tries to protect her husband and sons from the Serbian Military during the Bosnian Civil War.
This particular film represents the worst kind of victory for evil. Why? Because it really happened.
The characters in Quo Vadis, Aida? are fictionalized, but they are based on real people, and there were many other thousands just like them. Despite Aida's (Jasna Duricic) best efforts, her husband and sons are taken away, and the underprepared UN forces fail to prevent the handover. They're then massacred alongside around 8,000 other Bosnian men in the Srebrenica Massacre.
Partly because it came out during the pandemic, at a time when most cinemas were closed, Quo Vadis, Aida? hasn't reached as wide an audience as it should have. It's a superb account of one of the worst atrocities in recent European history, and it should be seen, but it's almost certainly going to be too harrowing to sit through again. Really, the only comfort viewers can take from this one is that, in real life, the commanders responsible for the massacre were successfully prosecuted for War Crimes.