How to Wake a Princess

At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with e

A Story of Love and Honor

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as

Let Him Face the Music!

School supply teacher timid folk art Ales Brabec won first prize at a music festival and will theref

Flying Saucers Over Our Village

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

Leť, ptáku leť!

Even a strict and not very popular teacher can achieve extraordinary popularity with his pupils. Whe

Ark of Fools

Set in a bleak, filth-ridden provincial hospital, a disillusioned doctor begins to find the philosop

Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted refere

Love Between the Raindrops

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cob

How a Man Gives Birth

The hero of the opening story, the Postman Puppet (directed by Zdeněk Troška), works as a postman in

Julek

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

Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci

A crazy comedy, turning into a grotesque with a number of absurd elements, tells the tangled story o

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...

For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. Wh

Man Overboard

Ten-year-old David joins a sailing club. He trains hard and helps repair the sailing boats, but peop

Romaneto

A frightening atmosphere, full of chilling dampness and darkness, follows the fate of a desperate se

Escape Home

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopt

Hodina života

It is 1883 and Josef Hibes, a social democrat, is organising a strike of textile workers. The main d

Christening

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

Zakázaný výlet

Based on a real event - the shooting of a group of working-class children on 20 April 1930 in Radotí

Attention, Rounds!

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

Revue na scestí

The Valley of the Bees

Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by

The Firemen's Ball

The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement

A Man Who Rose in Price

Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. Afte

Slasti Otce vlasti

The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educ

Funeral Ceremony

Matylda, who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband

You Are a Widow, Sir

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, g

The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon

In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague L

Oil Lamps

In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin

The Death of Black King

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

Hroch

The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of

Maturita za školou

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do wit

Joachim, Put It in the Machine

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a

My Brother Has a Cute Brother

Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother M

Pomerančový kluk

A quarrel between divorced waitress Mája and her fifteen-year-old son Petr ends with the boy physica

Škaredá dědina

The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slo

Čas lásky a naděje

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

Kluk za dvě pětky

Even under socialism, it was not advisable to cross the line between rich and poor. When a mason's a

We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling...

Mr. Novak tells a lie to his neighbor Mrs. Bartackova that her husband is unfaithful to her and that

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable

Dům Na poříčí

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events s

Smoke on the Potato Fields

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marr

Intimate Lighting

A musician and his girlfriend visit an old musician friend of his and his family.

The Three Veterans

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the countr

Putování Jana Amose

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the Wh

Sestricky

A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is

Hubert the Smart Boy

Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions

A story about a young medical school student and his adventures.

Rumburak

In this fairy-tale comedy, a clumsy second-rate wizard, Rumburak, gets stuck in the world of humans.

Shades of Fern

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most re

My Sweet Little Village

The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community.

Sun, Hay, Berries

A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, a

Sun, Hay and a Couple of Slaps

For a second time this film leads us to the village in South Bohemia. We meet again Konopnik family

Sun, Hay, Erotica

The local farmers' cooperative organized a trip to Italy, in which the Škopkovci took part. They wen

Happy End

A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is ac

The Key

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading

The Secret of the Gold Buddha

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

Time of the Servants

Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not wit

Skús ma objať

A tragicomic story about the "hug" that all the characters long for, especially sociologist Oskar, a

Giorgino

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a grou

Černá punčocha

An elderly tailor strangles young women with a black stocking. Inspired by a true crime.

The Octopuses from the Second Floor

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

Where the Early Bird Catches the Worm

A clever but often teased boy, is able to clone himself thanks to a stolen formula from a scientist.

Merry Christmas Octopus

Eva and her younger brother Johnny own two sentient octopuses made out of strange matter. Will their

How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives

While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a t

Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker

Fairy tale about young cobbler Jíra, who had fashioned wings from leather in order to rescue princes

Horká kaše

In the 1980s, a number of films were made about teenagers. At first they dealt with the confusing se

Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice

A Polish criminalist specialises in various historical mysteries. He is aided by a miraculous car, w

Jestřábí moudrost

A gloomy tale about a king whose pride robbed him of love, friends and power. A cruel curse is at th

Uzavřený okruh

A dramatic story about the devastation of the environment and human character.

Zvířata ve městě

The juxtaposition of animals locked in cages in a zoo and people shackled by the confinement of the

The Seven

A parody of the film The Magnificent Seven about seven transport company inspectors who bravely figh