FR #1440 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Czech, France | Czech, English
Director
Milos Forman
Writer
Jaroslav Papousek, Milos Forman, Ivan Passer
Cast
Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik
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.
FR #1442 | Movie | Comedy | Czech, India | Czech, Kannada
Director
Vera Chytilova
Writer
Vera Chytilova, Pavel Juracek, 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?
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.
FR #2394 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Czech, Czechia | Czech, Russian
Director
Jan Hrebejk
Writer
Petr Jarchovsk12, Petr Sabach
Cast
Michael Beran, Miroslav Donutil, Simona Stasova
Plot
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 ...
FR #3217 | Movie | War, Drama | Czech | Czech, German
Director
Jan Nemec
Writer
Arnost Lustig, Jan Nemec
Cast
Ladislav Jansky, Antonin 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.
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...
FR #3472 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Czech, Russia | Czech, Ukrainian
Director
Martin Fric
Writer
Jiri Brdecka, Martin Fric, Jan Werich
Cast
Jan Werich, Marie Vasova, Natasa Gollova
Plot
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.
FR #3478 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Czech | Czech, German
Director
Gustav Machat12
Writer
Robert Horky, Frantisek Hork12, 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...
FR #3721 | Movie | History, Drama | Czech, Mexico | Czech, Spanish
Director
Frantisek Vlacil
Writer
Vladimir Korner, Frantisek Vlacil
Cast
Petr Cepek, Jan Kacer, Vera Galatikova
Plot
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.
FR #3980 | Movie | Adventure, Family | Czech | Czech
Director
Karel Zeman
Writer
William Cayton, J.A. Novotn12, Karel Zeman
Cast
Vladimir Bejval, Zdenek Hustak, Josef Lukas
Plot
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.
FR #3981 | Movie | Comedy, Family | Czech, France | Czech, French
Director
Borivoj Zeman
Writer
Jiri Brdecka, Oldrich Kautsk12, Jan Werich
Cast
Jan Werich, Vlasta Burian, Irena Kacirkova
Plot
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.
FR #4143 | Movie | Animation, Comedy | Czech, UK | Czech, Japanese
Director
Jan Svankmajer
Writer
Karel Jaromir Erben, Jan Svankmajer
Cast
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.
Vladimir Mensik, Jaroslava Obermaierova, Josef Abrham
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...
FR #4219 | TV | Comedy, Fantasy | Czech, Germany | Czech
Cast
Vladimir Mensik, Stella Zazvorkova, 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...
FR #4641 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Czech | Czech, Russian
Director
Karel Kachyna
Writer
Karel Kachyna, Jan Prochazka, Ladislav Winkelhofer
Cast
Jirina Bohdalova, Radoslav Brzobohat12, Gustav Opocensk12
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.
FR #4856 | Movie | Animation, Short | Czech, UK | Czech, English
Director
Jan Svankmajer
Writer
Jan Svankmajer
Plot
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.
Rudolf Hrusinsk12, Vlastimil Brodsk12, Vaclav Neckar
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.
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.
FR #5718 | Movie | War, Comedy | Czech, India | Czech, Telugu
Director
Karel Stekl12
Writer
Jan Halek, Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Stekl12
Cast
Rudolf Hrusinsk12, Svatopluk Benes, Frantisek Filipovsk12
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...
FR #5899 | Movie | History, Drama | Czech, France | Czech, French
Director
Otakar Vavra
Writer
Vaclav Kaplick12, Otakar Vavra, Ester Krumbachova
Cast
Vladimir Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr
Plot
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.
FR #6392 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Czech, Peru | Czech, Spanish
Director
Jan Sverak
Writer
Zdenek Sverak
Cast
Jan Triska, Zdenek Sverak, Libuse Safrankova
Plot
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...
FR #6404 | Movie | Comedy | Czech, Italy | Czech, Italian
Director
Ladislav Smoljak
Writer
Zdenek Sverak
Cast
Josef Abrham, Libuse Safrankova, 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.
FR #6730 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Czech, USA | Czech, English
Director
Martin Fric
Writer
Eduard Simacek, Martin Fric, Josef Gruss
Cast
Oldrich Nov12, Natasa Gollova, Raoul Schranil
Plot
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...
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...
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...
FR #6977 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Czech, Italy | Czech, English
Director
Jan Nemec
Writer
Ester Krumbachova, Jan Nemec
Cast
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.
FR #7231 | Movie | Comedy | Czech | Czech, English
Director
Karel Lamac
Writer
Jiri Verner, Vaclav Wasserman
Cast
Vlasta Burian, Adina Mandlova, Marie Blazkova
Plot
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.
Theodor Pistek, Frantisek Smolik, 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..
FR #7469 | Movie | War, Drama | Czech | Czech, German
Director
Jiri Krejcik
Writer
Jiri Krejcik, Jan Drda
Cast
Frantisek Smolik, Jana Brejchova, Ivan Mistrik
Plot
The story of High school in Czechia (then Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia) during occupation by Nazi Germany, where three students are arrested by Gestapo.
Vlastimil Brodsk12, Radoslav Brzobohat12, Vladimir Mensik
Plot
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.
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.
"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...
FR #7723 | TV | Comedy, Fantasy | Czech, Germany | Czech
Writer
Ota Hofman, Jindrich Polak
Cast
Josef Blaha, Josef Dvorak, Dagmar Patrasova
Plot
It's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for e...
FR #7886 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Czech, Slovakia | Czech, Russian
Director
Ondrej Trojan
Writer
Kveta Legatova, Petr Jarchovsk12
Cast
Anna Geislerova, Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan
Plot
A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his...
FR #7909 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Czech, Italy | Czech, Italian
Director
Hynek Bocan
Writer
Jiri Just, Hynek Bocan, Bozena Nemcova
Cast
Vladimir Dlouh12, Ondrej Vetch12, Jana Ditetova
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...
FR #8476 | Movie | Comedy, Family | Czech, France | Czech, English
Director
Borivoj Zeman
Writer
Frantisek Vlcek, Borivoj Zeman
Cast
Helena Vondrackova, Vaclav Neckar, Bohus Zahorsk12
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...
Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together...
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...
FR #8731 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Czech | Czech, German
Director
Alfred Radok
Writer
Erik Kolar, Mojmir Drvota, Alfred Radok
Cast
Blanka Waleska, Otomar Krejca, Viktor Ocasek
Plot
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...
FR #8907 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Czech, France | Czech, English
Director
Oldrich Lipsk12
Writer
Jiri Brdecka, Oldrich Lipsk12, John Russel Coryell
Cast
Michal Docolomansk12, Rudolf Hrusinsk12, Milos Kopeck12
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...
Katerina Irmanovova, Karel Smyczek, Vjaceslav Irmanov
Plot
A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.
In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and h...
FR #9229 | Movie | Animation, Short | Czech | Czech
Director
Borivoj Zeman, Karel Zeman
Writer
Karel Zeman
Cast
Jana Hrdlickova
Plot
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...
FR #9486 | Movie | Comedy | Czech, Russia | Czech, English
Director
Karel Lamac
Writer
Vaclav Wasserman, Rudolph Bernauer, Rudolf Osterreicher
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.
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...
A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've pre...
Three veterans are given magic artifacts by elves that can magically create gold, servants and any other object. They encounter greedy characters and one of them falls in love with a princess.
FR #9907 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Czech | Czech, English
Director
Jiri Menzel
Writer
Zdenek Sverak, Ladislav Smoljak
Cast
Josef Kemr, Zdenek Sverak, Daniela Kolarova
Plot
The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
FR #9911 | Movie | Comedy, Family | Czech | Czech, English
Director
Marie Polednakova
Writer
Marie Polednakova
Cast
Julius Satinsk12, Jana Sulcova, Vaclav Postraneck12
Plot
Three middle-aged men go for a vacation with their children and learn to cope with their needs without their wives. Quickly, they plan to exhaust the kids to have some time off, but nothing really works out as planned.
Josef shows his friend Frank his garden and his rabbits. Frank is most interested in the unsettling fact that Josef's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.
FR #10649 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Czech, Russia | Czech, Russian
Director
Jiri Menzel
Writer
Bohumil Hrabal, Jiri Menzel
Cast
Rudolf Hrusinsk12, Jaromir Hanzlik, Josef Somr
Plot
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area ...
Two stories are simultaneously told. One dutiful mother progressively becomes a frustrated woman who is the only one assuming the family responsibilities of working at home and looking after her only son, whereas her husband works...
Otto Simanek, Frantisek Filipovsk12, Jirina Bohdalova
Plot
The children's series reintroduces on the screen Mister Tau the charmer, along with his double, Uncle Alfons. It is impossible to tell them apart, and the cases of their mistaken identity in many comical situations guarantee to en...
FR #10733 | Movie | Animation, Family | Czech | Czech
Director
Jiri Trnka, Milos Makovec
Writer
Vitezslav Nezval, Hans Christian Andersen, Jiri 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...
FR #11149 | Movie | Comedy | Czech, Japan | Czech, Japanese
Director
Oldrich Lipsk12
Writer
Ladislav Smoljak, Zdenek Sverak, Oldrich Lipsk12
Cast
Ludek Sobota, Marta Vancurova, Vera Ferbasova
Plot
A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka (Ludek Sobota) leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious...
FR #11400 | Movie | Biography, Comedy | Czech, Hong Kong | Czech, English
Director
Ladislav Smoljak
Writer
Ladislav Smoljak, Zdenek Sverak
Cast
Zdenek Sverak, Valerie Kaplanova, Petr Cepek
Plot
Czech comedy film about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminologist, poet, writer and philosopher).
FR #11410 | Movie | Comedy, Family | Czech, Mexico | Czech, Spanish
Director
Vaclav Vorlicek
Writer
Hermina Frankova, Milos Macourek, Vaclav Vorlicek
Cast
Petra Cernocka, Jan Hrusinsk12, Jan Kraus
Plot
Saxana, a witch-in-training, accidentally stumbles upon a spell that transports her to the human world. She meets Peter who introduces her to the human world, leading to a series of adventures as she experiences life outside magic...
FR #11477 | Movie | Animation, Short | Czech, USA | Czech, English
Director
Jan Svankmajer
Writer
Jan Svankmajer
Plot
An eight-part portrait of animal species in the different biological classes, accompanied by a different style of music. Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.
Klara and Viktoria are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klara. When Klara becomes involved with a man that her sister loves, Viktoria begins to plot her murder.
A turbulent comedy of confusion about the water sprites who go soul hunting in the river Vltava and become ordinary mortals through all kinds of misadventures.
FR #11985 | Movie | Animation, Short | Czech | Czech
Director
Jan Svankmajer
Writer
Jan Svankmajer
Cast
Vaclav Borovicka
Plot
A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision...
FR #11995 | Movie | Comedy | Czech, Switzerland | Czech, English
Director
Martin Fric
Writer
Emil Artur Longen, Josef Neuberg
Cast
Vlasta Burian, Ruzena Slemrova, Jaroslav Marvan
Plot
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 ...
