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- DirectorJirí WeissStarsLadislav H. StrunaRudolf DeylRudolf SirokýDramatization of the situation of those living in the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia after the 1938 Munich agreements.
- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsJirí ValaMartin RuzekRudolf HrusínskýHuppert stops at a motel on a rainy night 1961. He is unaware that his arrogant behavior awakens unbearable memories in one of the people present. The motel manager had spent part of his youth in a concentration camp.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsIva JanzurováJaromír HanzlíkLudek MunzarA WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.
- DirectorLudvík RázaStarsJaromír HanzlíkMartin RuzekJosef VinklárTwo scientists use their inherited fortune differently. One designs a beautiful town called Fortuna, while the second builds huge factories to make munitions known as Steel City.
- DirectorJaromil JiresStarsMagda VásáryováViera StrniskováJúlius VasekTowards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska awaits in her cell in prison in Breslau (after war Polish Wroclaw) her execution. After death sentence it was ninety nine days of grace of life that were granted to prisoners by the Nazis, a period during which the prisoners were put to work. Maruska paints the eyes of the plaster tin soldiers by a thin brush and thus she takes the opportunity to put down secretly the fragments of her memories, thoughts and expectations. She hopes she will manage to smuggle these "scraps", as she calls them, to her close friends and family. In retrospect there are returning the girl's experiences.
- DirectorJirí WeissStarsIvan MistríkDaniela SmutnáJirina SejbalováDuring World War II, a young student from Prague hides a Jewish girl inside his house. But not all of his neighbors are willing to take the risk.
- DirectorJán KadárElmar KlosStarsIda KaminskaJozef KronerFrantisek ZvaríkA carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsVáclav NeckárJosef SomrVlastimil BrodskýAn apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
- DirectorJan NemecStarsLadislav JánskyAntonín KumberaIlse BischofovaTwo 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.
- DirectorEduard GrecnerStarsAnton OcelkaVera KresadlováFrantisek VeleckýThe story of two friends, the astronomer Tur and the sculptor Andrei. It shows their different reactions to the question of life today: what can one man do to save humanity from destruction, to free the world from the constant threat of nuclear war.
- DirectorAntonín MoskalykStarsKrystyna MikolajewskaBohus ZáhorskýKarel HögerA beautiful, underachieving, 18 year old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.
- DirectorAlfréd RadokStarsBlanka WaleskáOtomar KrejcaViktor OcásekThe 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 scenes of horror.
- DirectorCenek DubaStarsJosef BekSvatava HubenákováJirí Vala
- DirectorPeter SolanStarsStefan KvietikManfred KrugValentina ThielováIn a Nazi concentration camp, an escapee awaiting execution is spared when the commandant, a former prize-fighter, discovers the prisoner has amateur boxing ability. Ordered to train, he gradually sharpens his skills.
- DirectorZbynek BrynychStarsMiroslav MachácekOlga ScheinpflugováZdenka ProcházkováA Jewish doctor in Nazi-occupied Prague risks his life by assisting a gravely injured member of the resistance.
- DirectorJán KadárElmar KlosStarsJan KacerEva PolákováMartin RuzekWar may end, but scars will remain to bleed in human memory. This story of a Czechoslovak partisan at the end of World War II confirms that.
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsVlastimil BrodskýRadoslav BrzobohatýVladimír MensíkVarious 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.
- DirectorJúlius MatulaStarsMichal DymekJirí StrnadJosef SomrIn the frontier village Vetrov boys from the children's home called Indians lead a bitter "war" with the local Símáks. Before a battle the Indians have a meeting in the sandpit with a smoke signaling. The smoke brings to the sandpit a frontier guard Tomás with a police dog Ranek. The children learn from Tomás that Rank served out and that it shall be destroyed. The nine-year old Fanda writes a letter to the "minister of the frontier guards" in which he asks to let Ranek live. To save Ranek's life he also visits the local frontier guard commander. In the end it is decided that children from the children's home may keep Ranek.
- DirectorAntonín MásaStarsPetr CepekTána FischerováMarta KrásováOnce, a young poet (Petr Cepek) has been killed in the Art Nouveau setting of the castle The World. Later, his diary is found and the brief and incoherent notes became the basis for the story of the events preceding the murder.
- DirectorJán KadárElmar KlosStarsVlado MüllerJaroslav BlazekMiroslav MachácekManagers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money. They have paid the workers generously in return for some of the money.
- DirectorPeter SolanStarsJana GýrováJitka ZelenohorskáStano DanciakThe action of the film takes place in the course of one night at a fashionable nightclub in Bratislava. The leading characters are two young girls who are spending their holiday in Bratislava and two boys who live there.
- DirectorAntonín MoskalykStarsJirí AdamíraJirí BruderLenka FiserováA group of wealthy American Jewish businessmen have been captured by the SS and are told that they are to be traded to the American army for several SS officers. However, these hostages are being required to pay bribes for their "transportation costs." In order to ensure that the businessmen will be more cooperative in paying up, a beautiful female singer is placed in their midst as a bargaining chip. The group of hostages are then placed on a train which is supposed to take them to the ship that will deliver them to freedom, but a series of "mishaps" delays their escape. It soon becomes clear that the journey is nothing more than a charade to soak as much money as possible out of the hostages. They arrive at a concentration camp, where the hostages are ordered to disrobe before their entry into the gas chamber. A particularly unpleasant SS officer orders the singer to strip in front of him. Just as the singer appears to move to take off her underwear, she wrestles the officer's gun away from him and starts shooting. That act of defiance brings in a set of guards who murder all of the hostages.
- DirectorZbynek BrynychStarsZdenek StepánekIlja PracharJirí VrstálaTheresienstadt camp where Germans held prominent Jews during the World War II. The film shows last days of the camp under the Germans.
- DirectorJan NemecStarsHelena PejskováJana PracharováZdena SkvoreckaA 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.
- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsJaromír HanzlíkZuzana CigánováJanusz StrachockiA lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.
- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsZdenek StepánekKarel HögerVlasta MatulováDuring the Great Papal Schism, protestant reformer, Jan Hus, speaks out against the rampant corruption of the Church in Rome, kickstarting a religious revolution in Bohemia.
- DirectorIvo NovákStarsJaromír HanzlíkPetr OlivaOldrich VíznerThe group of five soldiers is charged to secure an undisturbed transit of the military column through Prague. According to the order they are to await the column at midnight at the end of the Prague housing estate. The military transport guard arrive to the place of destination early and thus they gain a walk in Prague from the commander, Corporal Velich. Velich has to stay at the wagon. The soldiers have their ideas how to spend free time in the big town.
- DirectorIvo TomanStarsKarel HlusickaKarel SebestaZdenek KutilAt the beginning of the fifties of the 20th century, shortly after the founding of the Unified farmers'cooperative in the town of Mezilesí, there is shot dead a functionary Málek by three unknown men. From the Prague headquarters of the police there are sent to the village two investigators, Lanka and Malinák. The only one trace of the bandits are cans found in a desolate stone-pit in the surroundings of Mezilesí.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsJirí SýkoraJana StehnováVlado MüllerJuraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in his life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and craftsmanship. He has a passion for art but he also has to make a living. Through his relationships with close people, he grows aware of his position and this knowledge helps him to live a more fulfilling and better life.
- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsJean-Louis TrintignantSylvie BréalZuzana KocúrikováOn the run from pursuing soldiers, a man hides in a small European town.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsKarel FialaRudolf DeylMilos KopeckýStraight 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, convinces the Arizona sin-town to abstain from alcohol. But Trigger Whiskey maker Duke Badman's brother the devious gunslinger Hogofogo, comes to save his sibling's saloon from Joe's allies, father and daughter temperance revivalists, the Goodmans. Based on famous Czech parody novel from the 1940s and its various stage adaptations.
- StarsMiriam ChytilováRichard KnotekJana SulcováKlárka lives with her younger brother and her grandmother in a village. She keeps a special diary of everything she and her friends experience. These experiences are told in the series.
- DirectorJirí KrejcíkStarsJ.O. MartinJarmila KurandováBohus ZáhorskýThe family of Pavlas, a Prague greengrocer, was among the first immigrants to settle the border village of Severov. Together, the new inhabitants manage to harvest their first crop on time and with success - but it will be necessary to uncover a German saboteur posing as a sawmill manager.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsJana SvandováMichal DlouhýMarek MikulásIn the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains. Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman. The village is almost deserted, food supplies are delayed; the Werwolf (Nazi guerrilla squads) are hiding in the mountains, and shooting is heard from time to time. The elder son Ondra (Michal Dlouhý) is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences. He meets an old Czech resident Skurek (Lubomír Kostelka), German women working in the forest, soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines, and a young first lieutenant. At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much. This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsMichal KoblicMarienka MagdolenovaVladimír HlavatýA young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and ends up working for the army against the Germans.
- DirectorVáclav KrskaStarsOtýlie BenískováVáclav VoskaJaromír SpalGloomy gallery tenement house in the suburbs is crowded with people, discontent with their fate. Symbol of better life is for them a worn-out bag of old lady Sachová, and they think their uncommunicative neighbour has locked loads of money inside it. The idea that they might pay off their debts even drives an indebted traveller, poor watchmaker and an office servant to a murder attempt.
- DirectorJan SvitákStarsZvonimir RogozOlga BorodacovaAndrej Bagar
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsMiroslava SafránkováPetr KostkaJaroslava ObermaierováBlazenka likes to imagine she is on a desolate island and has to find a way how to survive. After the death of her mother she stays together with her baby brother and has to take care of the family. In this difficult situation, she plays this role-game that helps her to deal with the sudden loss of her mother.
- StarsLadislav ChudíkMilos KopeckýJosef AbrhámA brilliant TV series following the lives of medical personnel at the orthopedic ward of a hospital at the end of the city. Strong characters, believable plots, balanced humor and drama, high attention to detail and medical accuracy made the series part of Czech TV heritage. Remains popular in central Europe since first released in 1978.
- StarsDarek VostrelIva JanzurováLudmila VostrcilováMeet Rudolf Vandas: a down-to-Earth curmudgeon and a butcher from Prague. After being dragged into playful daydream fantasies of his teenage daughter Sárka, Rudolf is unwittingly convinced to reevaluate his mundane world views.
- DirectorMartin Fric
- DirectorJindrich PolákStarsZdenek StepánekFrantisek SmolíkDana MedrickáThe 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.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsTheodor PistekFrantisek SmolíkFrantisek KreuzmannA 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..
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsRadovan LukavskýJirí ValaJirina SvorcováA communist film about Czechoslovak border guards in the late 1940s and their struggle against smugglers and refugees.
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsFrantisek PeterkaVáclav LohniskýRudolf AsmusA Czech boxer is imprisoned inside a German concentration camp during World War II.
- DirectorLadislav RychmanStarsVladimír PucholtIvana PavlováMilos ZavadilA cult Czech musical from director Ladislav Rychman has remained popular with generations of Czech viewers for its sympathetic portrayal of young rebellion, timeless humor, and catchy songs courtesy of Jirí Malásek, Jirí Bazant and Vlastimil Hála.
- DirectorMartin HollýStarsVlado MüllerJosef BláhaIlja PracharThe trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatically carries out his military orders, but he ultimately suffers the Empire's disfavor.
- DirectorJaroslav BalíkStarsVáclav SloupJan PivecRudolf HrusínskýA dark comedy, set during the second World War in Germany. Mentally retarded 16 year old boy manages to calculate the exact focus of miniature rockets and mercilessly kills people he does not like.
- DirectorJindrich PolákStarsJirí BednárJirí HrzánSvatopluk MatyásThe white gravestones at the military cemetery in English Brookwood display many Czech names. These were members of the British army of Czech origin who fought here and died for their homeland in the Second World War. The cries of the wounded and dying shift the story a quarter-century back. The crew of one of the bombers is composed of a Slovak captain, Pavel (Svatopluk Matyás), an English co-pilot and navigator, a Canadian radioman and a pair of Czech gunners, nicknamed Student (Jirí Bednár) and Shorty (Jirí Hrzán).
- DirectorIvo TomanStarsKarel HlusickaJirí KodetHana Cízková
- DirectorOtakar FukaStarsJosef VetrovecOta SklenckaJaromír HanzlíkIt is early May 1945 and the war is ending. The region adjacent to the river Elbe is full of retreating German soldiers and evacuated townsfolk. The cargo ship "Moldau" with a Czech crew escorted by German soldiers cruises the river. The explosives transported on it are supposed to assist the withdrawal of a German army unit from one of the settlements. Mechanic Rudla (Jaromír Hanzlík), shipman Vrána (Josef Vetrovec) and steersmen Vanis (Eduard Cupák) plan to take flight as soon as the boat arrives on shore, but the Germans keep detaining other men to add to the crew for unloading the dangerous cargo.
- DirectorVít OlmerStarsLukás VaculíkJirí KrampolKarla Triska
- DirectorZdenek TroskaStarsMichaela KuklováMiroslav SimunekDaniel HulkaOnce upon a time there was a farmer. His daughter Dora was mean, lazy and quarrelsome, but his stepdaughter Magareta was sweet, pretty and hardworking. So it happened that the servant Hannes fell in love with Magareta. When Hannes asks the farmer for Magareta's hand, the jealous Dora is disappointed. In revenge, she hands Hannes over to the king's soldier recruiters and drives Magareta out of the house. Hannes saves himself to two devilish journeymen, who equip him with some magical things for his further way. The and new strong friends help Hannes to save his Magareta and at the same time free the people from a tyrannical king.
- DirectorZdenek TroskaStarsMichaela KuklováMiroslav SimunekKarel GottIn the kingdom, Hannes and Margareta have taken on the role of the royal couple. You are expecting a child. Her friends are advisors and helpers to her. But her enemies - Magareta's sister, Brambas, the former king and his daughter Eufrosine - won't let her get back to normal life. But in the end this fairy tale ends like all of them.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsJan WerichMarie VásováNatasa GollováEmperors 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.
- DirectorLadislav SmoljakStarsZdenek SverákValérie KaplanováPetr CepekCzech comedy film about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminologist, poet, writer and philosopher).
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlasta ChramostováJana StehnováSet in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
- DirectorPetr SvédaStarsPavel KrízJirí KnotJán Króner Jr.
- DirectorKarel SmyczekStarsJirí StrachBarbora SeidlováPavel ZednícekOnce upon a time, there was a band of robbers, ruled by Lotrando, the robber of robbers. He took from the poor and the rich, and gave generously to his cronies. His son had long since outgrown his childhood shoes, so Lotrando decided that his son would get a good education. At the same time, by the Sargasso Sea in the Sultanate of Soliman, the Sultan is agonizing over the mysterious illness of his beautiful daughter Zubeida. Will the princess recover with the arrival of Lotrando and his new friend, the double doctor Drnec, or not?
- DirectorVáclav VorlícekStarsLibuse SafránkováPavel TrávnícekCarola BraunbockLife changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the family coachman gives her three magical hazelnuts.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsDana VávrováJirí ProcházkaJirí SovákTrespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
- DirectorJirí StrachStarsIvan TrojanJirí DvorákZuzana KajnarováA screwup angel is exiled from the Heaven down to Earth, incarnated as a beggar.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsRudolf HrusínskýPetr CepekJosef SomrThree 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.
- DirectorJirí StrachStarsIvan TrojanJirí DvorákVica KerekesPetronel, an angel, is still working at the Heaven's gates but is confident that he deserves a better function. His everlasting tempter Uriah, a devil, takes up tempting him. All one has to do to know all that God knows is pick an apple from the tree of knowledge. And then, the route to the well-deserved acknowledgment is free. Petronel and Uriah than proceed to argue about the apple, ant the results are catastrophic. The precious fruit falls all the way down to the Earth. The confused angel and his friend, the devil-tempter, have to quickly enter the human world, find the apple of Knowledge and bring it back. The night before Saint Nicolase's day they get tangled up in a peculiar whirl. They meet little Anezka and her beautiful mother, a crew of deceitful carolers, the greedy Kostál and a likable Sausage-seller. Before they manage to find the apple and bring it back where it belongs, they first have to endure a great adventure and get through quite a few dangerous setups.
- DirectorHynek BocanStarsVladimír DlouhýOndrej VetchýJana DítetováPetr'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 is kind and humble and falls in love with Petr. Petr meets a devil and together they decide to punish the evil ones.
- DirectorMarie PolednákováStarsJúlius SatinskýJana SulcováVáclav PostráneckýThree 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.
- DirectorVáclav VorlícekStarsJuraj DurdiakLibuse SafránkováVladimír MensíkThe old King (Vladimír Mensík) is not satisfied with his four children. It is high time for the Princesses to get married and for the Prince to assume the reign. Once the King sets out to the fowling and he entrusts the kingdom to the Prince Velen (Juraj Durdiak). His sisters want him to provide them with the bridegrooms. A beautiful girl Evening Star (Libuse Safránková) appears to Velen and he falls in love with her at once. Evening Star also likes Velen and therefore, for a kiss, she helps him to get married his sisters to her brothers Moonbeam, Sunbeam and Wind. After the King returns home he does not find the daughters because the bridegrooms took them right away. The angry King assigns the Prince to bring them home.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsFrantisek SmolíkMartin RuzekMarie KyselkováA Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse-fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted, forced marriage.
- DirectorZdenek TroskaStarsRadek ValentaAndrea CernáYvetta BlanarovicováA young man Jindrich goes looking for a princess only to find a girl in the country mill.
- DirectorVáclav VorlícekStarsPetra CernockáJan HrusínskýJan KrausSaxana has the enthusiasm, but lacks the right talent to become a witch. So she's kept in for 300 years - nothing unusual for a sorceress' school. Being bored, she skims through the magicians' lexicon and finds a formula which brings her into the world of the humans for 48 hours. There she meets the friendly Peter who takes her with him to school... and the adventures begin.
- DirectorBorivoj ZemanStarsAlena VránováVladimír RázStanislav NeumannA fairy tale of all Czech fairy tales about the proud princess Krasomila who refused to marry King Miroslav.
- DirectorBorivoj ZemanStarsJan WerichVlasta BurianIrena KacírkováA 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.
- DirectorVáclav VorlícekStarsJirí SovákVladimír MensíkMilena DvorskáThe king Dalimil and the queen Eliska waited to see a longed-for offspring - a daughter Ruzenka. But Eliska's envious and bad sister Melánie curses her. When Ruzenka becomes 17 years old she will prick her finger and she will fall asleep for ages together with the entire kingdom.
- DirectorBorivoj ZemanStarsHelena VondráckováVáclav NeckárBohus ZáhorskýA 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...
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsJosef KemrZdenek SverákDaniela KolárováThe 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.