Movie | Comedy, Drama | Czech, New Zealand | English, German
Director
Taika Waititi
Writer
Christine Leunens, Taika Waititi
Cast
Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson
Plot
A young German boy in the Hitler Youth, whose hero and imaginary friend is the country's dictator, is shocked to discover that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
Hana Brejchova¡, Vladimar Pucholt, Vladimar Mensak
Plot
Factory manager gets army reserves to boost female workers' morale. Local beauty spurns them for jazz pianist who seduces her. She leaves for Prague to find him but his parents are displeased when she arrives.
Vera Chytilova¡, Pavel Jura¡cek, Ester Krumbachova¡
Cast
Ivana Karbanova¡, Jitka Cerhova¡, Marie Ceskova¡
Plot
After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?
Robert Horky, Frantisek Horka½, Jacques A. Koerpel
Cast
Hedy Lamarr, Zvonimir Rogoz, Aribert Mog
Plot
Eva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
Two friends facing self-made problems where they try to solve them by using anything impossible and possible and their solutions lead to more problems, at the end the "problem" is fixed and finish off with their distinctive handsh...
Movie | Action, Crime | Czech, Austria | English, Georgian
Director
Sam Hargrave
Writer
Joe Russo, Ande Parks, Anthony Russo
Cast
Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Adam Bessa
Plot
After barely surviving his grievous wounds from his mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tyler Rake is back, and his team is ready to take on their next mission.
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totally stupid; fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything ...
A delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand's obstinate demands stop?
Karel Kachyna, Jan Procha¡zka, Ladislav Winkelhaafer
Cast
Jirina Bohdalova¡, Radoslav Brzobohata½, Gustav Opocenska½
Plot
After coming home from a Party gathering one night, a Czech official becomes convinced that he is about to be the subject of a political purge and tries to do damage control, while also dealing with his turbulent marriage.
Straight shooting Lemonade Joe cleans up Stetson City, in this musical parody of early Westerns, after shooting the pants off villain Old Pistol. Joe's endorsement of Kolaloka lemonade as the refresher that assures deadly aim, con...
Ladislav Ja¡nsky, Antonan Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova
Plot
Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.
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Joan of Arcaka The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc(1999)
Movie | Adventure, Biography | Czech, France | English, Latin
Director
Luc Besson
Writer
Andrew Birkin, Luc Besson
Cast
Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Rab Affleck
Plot
A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
Emperors baker and Bakers emperor - it refers to the fact that in movie just a regular young baker gets switched with real old Emperor which leaves everyone thinking that emperor did get younger by drinking the potion of youth.
Movie | Action, Adventure | Czech, USA | English, Latin
Director
Stephen Sommers
Writer
Stephen Sommers
Cast
Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh
Plot
The famed monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula, who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for nefarious purposes.
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Ikarie XB 1aka Voyage to the End of the Universe(1963)
Movie | Sci-Fi | Czech | Czech
Director
Jindrich Pola¡k
Writer
Pavel Jura¡cek, Stanislaw Lem, Jindrich Pola¡k
Cast
Zdenek Stepa¡nek, Frantisek Smolak, Dana Medricka¡
Plot
The year is 2163. Starship Ikarie XB 1 embarks on a long journey across the universe to search for life on the planets of Alpha Centauri.
Set in 13th-century Europe, a young boy joins the Teutonic Knights. Years later, he leaves the Crusaders, pursued by a fanatical comrade. He faces repercussions for rejecting the Holy Order.
A young woman is seduced and abandoned by a man who was invited to stay at his home by her father in a stormy night. Noticing that she is pregnant, the girl decides to leave home and start a new life.
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Alois Novák (Oldrich Nový), a minor clerk in a travel agency and the husband of a dowdy housewife Marenka (Natasa Gollová), lives a run-of-the-mill, dull life. In his soul, however, there resides an inextinguishable desire for adv...
One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
A story about a king who out of three daughters preferred two: the most beautiful and the most cheerful, and the most intelligent, and even able to cook well, he kicked out, which he later bitterly regretted.
Nurse Krystof Rozruch from St. Jakub hospital is asked for a favor. Senior consultant Marek temporarily changes his identity with him. This little scam takes place when staying at the spa. This throws unstoppable crazy situations.
Vladimar Mensak, Stella Za¡zvorkova¡, Jana Nagyova¡
Plot
Princess Arabela, the daughter of the King of the fairy tale world escapes before the revenge of a cunning and deceitful magician Rumburak and leaves the world of fairy tales. She meets Petr Majer in the human world and falls in l...
Theodor Pistek, Frantisek Smolak, Frantisek Kreuzmann
Plot
A most gifted pupil sharply criticizes the school in a homework essay, and the language teacher is convinced he is the author of a school magazine and expels him. The teachers vote to expel hi, but then they win a contest..
In German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Movie | Action, Adventure | Czech, UK | English, Italian
Director
Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer
Paul W.S. Anderson, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Cast
Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen, Raoul Bova
Plot
During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
After an accidental explosion in the lab, its inventor slips in and out of dream-like hallucinations, realizing that he had given the formula to one of his colleagues, who he tries to stop before it is too late.
Vladimar Mensak, Jaroslava Obermaierova¡, Josef Abrha¡m
Plot
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and mo...
Movie | Action, Adventure | Czech, UK | English, French
Director
Terry Gilliam
Writer
Ehren Kruger
Cast
Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Monica Bellucci
Plot
Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
Rudolf Hrusanska½, Vlastimil Brodska½, Va¡clav Necka¡r
Plot
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
After several years abroad Michal Nor comes back home to his aunt Pa and his sister Eva who just came back from board school. Aunt Pa is having a birthday soon and Eva knows that she would very much like the recipe for growing a s...
Veronika Zilkova¡, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerova¡
Plot
A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.
The terrible effect of the Nazis upon a single Jewish family provides the basis for this drama. The family cannot handle the strain and gradually breaks up. Interspliced within the film are newsreel clips of angry crowds, and scen...
Jan Werich, Emalia Va¡sa¡ryova¡, Vlastimil Brodska½
Plot
People arrive in a small village with a strange cat wearing glasses. When someone takes them off, he can color people, according to their nature and mood. Adults consider him dangerous; children love him.
Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that ni...
Movie | Action, Adventure | Czech, UK | English, Arabic
Director
M.J. Bassett
Writer
M.J. Bassett, Robert E. Howard
Cast
James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood
Plot
A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
Movie | Action, Adventure | Czech, France | English, Norse
Director
Howard McCain
Writer
Dirk Blackman, Howard McCain
Cast
Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman
Plot
During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan, a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against th...
Josef Abrha¡m, Libuse Safra¡nkova¡, Daniela Bakerova¡
Plot
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.
Rudolf Hrusanska½, Svatopluk Benes, Frantisek Filipovska½
Plot
Mrs Müllerova (E. Svobodova) informs her tenant Svejk (R. Hrusinsky) about the recent assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Svejk heads out to the local pub unaware that a secret police agent is also in there spying on people who t...
Va¡clav Wasserman, Rudolph Bernauer, Rudolf a–sterreicher
Cast
Vlasta Burian, Ladislav Hemmer, Adina Mandlova¡
Plot
Duchacek is the employee in the law company. As a faithful employee he is working hard to help his boss. And when it seems almost impossible to collect enough money in time, you should give this task to Duchacek.
In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by sed...
Vatezslav Nezval, Hans Christian Andersen, Jira Brdecka
Cast
Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa, Detsky pevecky sbor Jana Kuhna
Plot
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but...
Helena Pejskova¡, Jana Pracharova¡, Zdena Skvorecka
Plot
A small group of bourgeois guests head for a birthday party of a prominent figure. As they go through the woods and have a picnic, they are suddenly surrounded by a bunch of suspicious strangers.
One of the most important films of the Czech New Wave 60s, it was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. In this original sad comedy set in a small town, two classmates meet each other for the first time in ten years...
Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.
Movie | Biography, Drama | Czech, UK | English, Tswana
Director
Amma Asante
Writer
Guy Hibbert, Susan Williams
Cast
David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton
Plot
The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.
Zuzanka (Natasa Gollová) can finally stop toiling away at washing dishes at hotel Mercur after a distant aunt has bequeathed her her own hotel - Blue Star. She proudly marches over to the luxury hotel in the center of town and imm...
The story of High school in Czechia (then Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia) during occupation by Nazi Germany, where three students are arrested by Gestapo.
Vladimar Dlouha½, Ondrej Vetcha½, Jana Datetova¡
Plot
Petr's greedy stepmother steals everything from her stepson. Meanwhile, Petr meets two daughters of a local duke. He falls in love with one of them, but she is very proud and Petr means nothing to her. The second daughter Adelka i...
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very...
Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her gra...
True, Anton Spelec (Vlasta Burian) is by trade a producer of musical instruments, but in his heart and soul he is a sharp-shooter. In a little provincial town arrangements are being made for a large parade during which the worthy ...
"What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?" a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, productive workers). There's a problem: afte...
Jira Brdecka, Oldrich Lipska½, John Russel Coryell
Cast
Michal Docolomanska½, Rudolf Hrusanska½, Milos Kopecka½
Plot
When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who...
Skopec, Prouza and Petrtýl are three country plasterers who are working on the renovation of houses in Prague. They are tempted by the Prague night life, but their first visit to the luxury Diplomat Grill doesn't go too well and i...
Helena Vondra¡ckova¡, Va¡clav Necka¡r, Bohus Za¡horska½
Plot
A princess in love pretends to be insanely sad to get to marry the man who will make her laugh again. Only, she doesn't know her chosen one is the prince she was ordered to marry anyway...
