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Jacob the Liar

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio

Closely Watched Trains

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to

Julek

The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-clas

Typicky ženská reakce

Hodina pravdy

Jarmila Slezáková, a young woman convalesces badly at home after the results of a heart attack which

Podivný výlet

Petr, Martin and Čenda spent part of their youth in the war in the Beskydy Mountains. They were unit

Larks on a String

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work

Koncert pro mantinely

A musical and entertaining féerie based on the contrast between the world of classical music with it

About the Thick Fog

Short film made by Bretislav Pojar

How to Catch a Tiger

Short movie by Bretislav Pojar

Nechci nic slyšet

An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. I

The King of Colonnades

In May 1945, a broken violinist lies drunk by a creek, haunted by memories of his life before and du

Žalobníci

The young generation is not very at peace with the morality of their parents. In a story set in a Mo

Není sirotek jako sirotek

Mapa zámořských objevů

A story about the problems of an aging high school history professor, Barchánek, and his teenage son

Autumn Spring

A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow u

Capricious Summer

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimmi

Three Wishes

The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a sma

Operation Bororo

A man and a woman from a different planet come to the Earth to get a cure for a disease that is appa

Long Live Ghosts!

A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost wh

Pan Jordán a Habada

All My Good Countrymen

The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.

Prípad Platfus

The main character of the story is a former biology teacher named Montelík, who ends up in court whe

The Jester and the Queen

The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German ki

Men About Town

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

Love Without Words

1. A taxi driver barely finishes his coffee before a young woman asks for a ride to impress her boyf

Pět z milionu

Five short stories: The Master and the Twentieth Disciple; Every Week is Sunday; It's Boniface's Fau

Dissolved and Effused

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of o

Aber Doktor

Dentist Dr. Franke's selfless willingness to help is much appreciated by neighbors and acquaintances

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time tr

A Night at Karlstein

No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamou

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professo

Už vám není dvacet, paní Bláhová

Valčík pro milión

A girl from a dance ensemble from Uherské Hradiště and an amateur jazz musician from Strakonice will

Hledá se táta!

It all starts when two men arrive at the asylum. Mr. Houdek, who goes to see little Honzik Slavata,

Ceiling

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model.

Konkurs

A butcher and his wife are hardworking, but their only interest is in material possessions. That's w

The Flying Sneaker

Little Rehor isn't allowed to play with the other boys. His only friend is the girl next door, Luci.

Čas jeřabin

A poetic story about a man who returns to his mother's home village at Christmas. Stirred by his mem

Einstein kontra Babinský

A satire about small and large crooks who thrive in a planned economy. They made great use of all it

Začátek konce

Obraz

Popular English author Jerome Klapka Jerome and his humorous novel Three Men in a Boat have been a s

The Thing in the Castle

A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked

Opportunity

A military film of marital infidelity in which furloughs pose danger not only to the army but also t

If a Thousand Clarinets

A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attem

Courage for Every Day

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of hi

Return to Paradise Lost

A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first t

Meze Waltera Hortona

The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and pla

Zločin a trik I.

Too Loud A Solitude

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their

Devilish Honeymoon

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting

Do We Match Each Other, Darling?

Marta (Jana Brejchová) and Viktor (Vlastimil Brodský) celebrate the tenth anniversary of their weddi

Everything Ends Tonight

The adventurous story of a young soldier, lance corporal Milan Pazdera, who falls in love with a bea

Pražský Sherlock Holmes

I Survived Certain Death

Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fig

Of Things Supernatural

An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek’s “Tales from One Pocket” and “Fables a

Hlas krve

Hrdinové okamžiku

Růžové Merkury

Podezřelé okolnosti

The Great Movie Robbery

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary o

Honba za filmovým námětem

Rapotínská tragedie

Šest uprchlíků

A revue grotesque full of humour and surprises, awarded three main prizes at the Montreux Festival.

Pastýřská pohádka

Transport from Paradise

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto.

Touha Sherlocka Holmese

Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa o

When the Cat Comes

While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her ca

Jeden ze soubojů

A Box of Film

A film about filmmaking.

No Magic from Tomorrow

Mr. Tau, the quiet and kind magician with a bowler hat and an umbrella, shows up unexpectedly on the

Smích se lepí na paty

Sixty-year-old Joska Platejz, a peculiar jack of all trades, lives in a cottage in the Giant Mountai

Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte

The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany.

Štědrý večer pana rady Vacátka

The Death of Black King

Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attent

Z nových pověstí českých

Alarm in the Clouds

In defiance of all the laws of physics Mr. Tau is walking on the wing of an aircraft flying close to

Čintamani & podvodník

Two short stories by Karel Čintamani a ptáci An avid collector of carpets, MUDr. Vitásek discovers a

Tale '88

The lead character is a young woman who becomes close with a colleague of her husband. She finds her

Zvony pana Mlácena

A certain Mr. Mlácen is brought to the asylum, wanting to sell two church bells. He first offers the

Christening

Deputy of cartography enterprise Mr. Ciruvka tries to seduce the colleague's assistant to destabiliz

When the Woman Butts In

Miroslav Hornicek is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind l

Záhady aneb S Karlem Čapkem v soudní síni

Růžová sobota

Táto sežeň štěně

The holiday story revolves around the children of editor Hlavsa and their desire to get a dog. Dad b

Zdravý nemocný Vlastimilený Brodský

Plavení hříbat

The holidays of Vince Adamek, a student of the agricultural school in his native village in South Mo

The Borrowed Face

It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same t

Flying Saucers Over Our Village

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

Něco je ve vzduchu

The urn supposedly containing the remains of Alice's grandfather falls out of the window and breaks.

Five Men and One Heart

In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comment

The Secret of the Devil's Pocket

How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run befor

Namátková kontrola

Údržbáři

Pan Selichar se osvobodil

Čas lásky a naděje

A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemi

Smrt na černo

Webs of Prague's post-war underworld.

...and again that Lucy!

A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.

Secluded, Near Woods

The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. Ho

Oči pro pláč

A comedy about the unhinged owner of a lavish Art Nouveau villa. However, she is not entirely seriou

The King of Kings

During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the

Společnost s ručením omezeným

Adam and Otka

On the holidays, ten years old Adam and his little sister Otka, four years junior to him, travel fro

The White Lady

This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall w

Zaostřit prosím!

A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based

Labyrinth

Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign direc

Counting Sheep

A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a

The Secret of Blood

A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský success

Jindřich IV.

Fools Among Us

Tchán

The hard-working head of the farm machinery maintenance crew, Lawrence, is always in control. He kno

Freon Spirit

A group of children are helping a good spirits who are living in a cave near school.

The End of a Priest

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a

O labuti

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.

The Lost Photography

A young boy from Prague is trying to find a Soviet soldier from the old 1945 picture.

Desire

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jas

September Nights

The commander of the military training camp, newly promoted Major Cibulka, keeps his subordinates in

Anynka a čert

Romanetto

A young woman from an old patrician family in Prague collapses and is institutionalized in a psychic

To byla svatba, strýčku

Alfons is invited by his brother-in-law to his niece's wedding. The uncle arrives in his luxury car.

I Dutifully Report

A comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World War

Crime in the Night Club

The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this cou

A nebojíš se, princezničko?

The story of a princess who despised the deep love of a wise king is taken from the legacy of the Fr

Podezření

The story of four men who were arrested in a random raid on a small-town hotel during the Nazi occup

People From Caravans

Story about the people around the circus and the unfortunate love of a young man an acrobat. Before

Tažní ptáci

The sequel to the film Icarus focuses on the further fates of pianist Kára, who decided to fight the

Kalhoty od krejčího ze Lhoty

A fairy tale in which the devil can make hell for people on earth, but is powerless against common s

Alfons Karásek v lázních

Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower

Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from be

Florián

A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The

The Octopuses from the Second Floor

While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a po

Utopím si ho sám

The difference in personalities and lifestyles is the core of Zdeněk Svěrák's hilarious comedy. The

30 Maidens and Pythagoras

A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics te

Uspořená libra

Brouk v hlavě

Three Men Travelling

Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending o

Tears the World Can't See

Three friends from a wet neighbourhood come back from the pub properly stoned and decide to continue

Bomba

The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb on a construction site brings a shock to the peaceful exi

Spadla s měsíce

A story about the uproar caused by the arrival of a new, young and, by local standards, too energeti

Chance

The actress, who is starring in a successful theatre production, is offered a big film role by an It

Dogs and People

The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away b

Cars Without a Home

Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia's unloved cars i

Konec velké epochy

This Is How Love Begins...

Two hilarious short stories set in the milieu of apprentice youth, depicting the amorous travails of

Vzbouření na vsi

The new era brings with it progress, which must inevitably penetrate even the most remote corners. I

Jak se dělá divadlo

The Adventurous Bachelor

Even the pre-Blohemian times were not idyllic. Even a bachelor, invited by the consuls to Rakovník t

Kavárna na hlavní třídě

On his first day in a new place, waiter Josef Kučera stands up for his old servant Bartoš and bellho

Vstanou noví bojovníci

The leader of the emerging organized labor movement in the 1880s, Ladislav Zápotocký-Budečský, is ex

The Secret of the Gold Buddha

A crime story set in the second half of the 19th century. Krasl, a Prague schoolteacher, is searchin

Rudá záře nad Kladnem

The year is 1918. Toník returns home from the front. In Kladno, where he arrives, things are seethin

Do Not Wake Up the Mammoths

A humorous modern fairy-tale about boys who woke up a mammoth in a school biology room and experienc

Na rohu kousek od metra

Sedmipírek

A young man named Seven Feathers lives among thieves, but he doesn't like their "profession". Whatev

Konec kouzelníka Uhahuly

Bratři Kipové

The ship's first officer, Karel Kip, and his brother, engineer Petr Kip, are convicted as mutineers

Blázinec v 1. poschodí

The servant Josef enters the seemingly peaceful household of the psychiatrist Jaroslav and his wife

The Snowman's Dream

A fairy tale about the foolish dream of one dissatisfied snowman.

Florenc 13,30

The plot of the film follows a bus ride on the Prague - Karlovy Vary route and the actions of the pe

Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertisin

Uncle

In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.

Jan Hus

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti vše

Jan Žižka

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

Velká policejní pohádka

Jak se dělá televizní soutěž

Today for the Last Time

Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub

Den, kdy unesli papeže

The news that frames the two days in which the whole story takes place is bad. At first glance, thes

Ta slepička kropenatá

O televizním strašidýlku

The story of a little ghost who is angry and spins around the television antenna, making noises on t

Hadrián z Římsů

The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin

Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en rout

Krejčí Šajtle Dobrodruh

Odsouzený z Pinktownu

The Stolen Border

Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemi

Ta naše písnička česká

The Haszler songs of Prague, so popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, have n