Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Music • Country: Ireland, USA • Language: English, Czech
Director
John Carney
Writer
John Carney
Cast
Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh
Plot
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
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 Brejchová, VladimÃr Pucholt, VladimÃr MensÃk
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.
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?
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Czech • Language: Czech, German
Director
Gustav Machatý
Writer
Robert Horky, Frantisek Horký, 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.
Category: TV • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: Canada, USA • Language: English, Czech
Director
na
Writer
Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright
Cast
Joe Flanigan, Rachel Luttrell, David Hewlett
Plot
An international team of scientists and military personnel discover a Stargate network in the Pegasus Galaxy and come face-to-face with a new, powerful enemy: The Wraith.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Czech • Language: None, Czech
Director
Jan Svankmajer
Writer
Jan Svankmajer
Cast
na
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Czech • Language: Czech, Russian
Director
Jan Hrebejk
Writer
Petr Jarchovský, Petr Sabach
Cast
Michael Beran, Miroslav Donutil, Simona Stasová
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 ...
Karel Kachyna, Jan Procházka, Ladislav Winkelhöfer
Cast
Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Gustav Opocenský
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Czech • Language: Czech, German
Director
Jan Nemec
Writer
Arnost Lustig, Jan Nemec
Cast
Ladislav Jánsky, AntonÃn 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Fantasy • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Martin Fric
Writer
Jirà Brdecka, Martin Fric, Jan Werich
Cast
Jan Werich, Marie Vásová, Natasa Gollová
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Frantisek Vlácil
Writer
VladimÃr Körner, Frantisek Vlácil
Cast
Petr Cepek, Jan Kacer, Vera GalatÃková
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.
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.
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Family • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Karel Zeman
Writer
William Cayton, J.A. Novotný, Karel Zeman
Cast
VladimÃr Bejval, Zdenek Hustak, Josef Lukás
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Family • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Borivoj Zeman
Writer
Jirà Brdecka, Oldrich Kautský, Jan Werich
Cast
Jan Werich, Vlasta Burian, Irena KacÃrková
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.
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.
Category: TV • Genre: Comedy, Fantasy • Country: Czech, Germany • Language: Czech
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
VladimÃr MensÃk, Stella Zázvorková, Jana Nagyová
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 SmolÃk, 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..
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Czech • Language: German, Czech
Director
Jan Hrebejk
Writer
Jan Hrebejk, Petr Jarchovský
Cast
Bolek PolÃvka, Csongor Kassai, Jaroslav Dusek
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Otakar Vávra
Writer
Václav Kaplický, Otakar Vávra, Ester Krumbachová
Cast
VladimÃr 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.
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.
VladimÃr MensÃk, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Josef Abrhám
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Jirà Menzel
Writer
Bohumil Hrabal, Jirà Menzel
Cast
Rudolf HrusÃnský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Comedy • Country: Czech, UK • Language: Czech
Director
Jan Svankmajer
Writer
Karel JaromÃr Erben, Jan Svankmajer
Cast
Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Thriller • Country: Czech • Language: Czech, German
Director
Alfréd Radok
Writer
Erik Kolár, Mojmir Drvota, Alfréd Radok
Cast
Blanka Waleská, Otomar Krejca, Viktor Ocásek
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Family • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Vojtech Jasný
Writer
Jirà Brdecka, Vojtech Jasný, Jan Werich
Cast
Jan Werich, EmÃlia Vásáryová, Vlastimil Brodský
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi • Country: UK • Language: English, Czech
Director
Nathan Juran
Writer
Nigel Kneale, Jan Read, H.G. Wells
Cast
Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries
Plot
When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Borivoj Zeman, Karel Zeman
Writer
Karel Zeman
Cast
Jana Hrdlicková
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...
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: War, Comedy • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Karel Steklý
Writer
Jan Halek, Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Steklý
Cast
Rudolf HrusÃnský, Svatopluk Benes, Frantisek Filipovský
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...
Václav Wasserman, Rudolph Bernauer, Rudolf Österreicher
Cast
Vlasta Burian, Ladislav Hemmer, Adina Mandlová
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Jaromil Jires
Writer
Milan Kundera, Jaromil Jires, Zdenek Bláha
Cast
Josef Somr, Jana DÃtetová, Ludek Munzar
Plot
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Family • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Jirà Trnka, Milos Makovec
Writer
VÃtezslav Nezval, Hans Christian Andersen, Jirà 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Jan Nemec
Writer
Ester Krumbachová, Jan Nemec
Cast
Helena Pejsková, Jana Pracharová, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Ivan Passer
Writer
Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer, Václav Sasek
Cast
Karel Blazek, Zdenek Bezusek, Vera Kresadlová
Plot
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.
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Czech • Language: Czech, German
Director
Jirà KrejcÃk
Writer
Jirà KrejcÃk, Jan Drda
Cast
Frantisek SmolÃk, Jana Brejchová, Ivan MistrÃk
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.
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Czech • Language: Slovak, Czech
Director
Stefan Uher
Writer
Alfonz Bednár
Cast
Marián Bielik, Jana Beláková, Olga Salagová
Plot
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 ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Yugoslavia • Language: Serbian, Czech
Director
Zdravko Sotra
Writer
Zdravko Sotra, Stevan Sremac
Cast
Vojin Cetkovic, Katarina Radivojevic, Dragan Nikolic
Plot
The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova (Katarina Radivojevic), a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane (Vojin Cetkovic), an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a ri...
"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...
Jirà Brdecka, Oldrich Lipský, John Russel Coryell
Cast
Michal Docolomanský, Rudolf HrusÃnský, Milos Kopecký
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Mystery • Country: USA, Canada • Language: English, Czech
Director
Brian De Palma
Writer
Brian De Palma, David Koepp
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard
Plot
Corrupt Atlantic City police officer Rick Santoro and Navy Commander Kevin Dunn join forces to investigate both the assassination of Secretary of Defense Charles Kirkland and the disappearance of a beautiful stranger.
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Family • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Borivoj Zeman
Writer
Frantisek Vlcek, Borivoj Zeman
Cast
Helena Vondrácková, Václav Neckár, Bohus Záhorský
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Czech • Language: Czech, German
Director
Frantisek Vlácil
Writer
VladimÃr Körner, Frantisek Vlácil
Cast
Petr Cepek, Emma Cerná, Jan Vostrcil
Plot
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...
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Czech • Language: Czech
Director
Jirà Menzel
Writer
Zdenek Sverák, Ladislav Smoljak
Cast
Josef Kemr, Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Czech • Language: Czech, German
Director
Frantisek Vlácil
Writer
Otakar Kirchner, Frantisek Vlácil
Cast
Katerina Irmanovová, 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.
