Touha 1958
Four stories, four seasons of the year, four periods from the human life
All My Good Countrymen 1969
Stories about seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948, developing gradually into the story of Frantiek, the resister. The film offers some direct…
Ceská rapsodie 1969
Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.
Closely Watched Trains 1966
A young man follows his father’s footsteps and joins the railway company, where he learns the job and has his first affair. Set in the country, during the German occupation.
The Tank Battalion 1991
The lacking attitude of a conscripted university graduate places him at odds with the power and doctrine of his military superiors. His secret relationship with the wife of a superior…
Eden and After 1970
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his “fear powder” the students experience a series of hallucinations.
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet 1978
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…
Lemonade Joe 1964
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 (Crazy Cola) lemonade…
Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea 1977
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-aging pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with…
Piloti 1989
Neha 1991
A wonderful dark tale of coming of age in a country in transformation – then Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in 1990s. Against the backdrop of a regime change and general crisis…
The Stress of Youth 1962
Adults who have long ago lost their link to nature fail to understand the feelings a growing 12 year old country girl has for a beautiful black stallion.
The Firemen’s Ball 1967
The volunteer fire department in a small town is having a big party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his 86th birthday. The whole town is invited but things…
Domy z panelu 1960
Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings.
Motýli tady nezijí 1958
Drawings by the children of the Terezín ghetto, who were later executed by the Nazis.
Podkova pro stestí 1946
A walking on the street finds a horseshoe, thinks it’s a good luck charm. So, he decides to take it with him home and find a suitable place for it.
Vánocní sen 1946
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…
Ferat Vampire 1982
A doctor Marek is shocked when his beloved nurse Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor…
Beauty and the Beast 1978
A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Julie is a bankrupt merchant’s daughter who as the only one of the three daughters chooses to save…
Prípad pro zacínajícího kata 1970
Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a…
Witchhammer 1970
The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. She admits to the parish priest Schmidt that she intended to…
Intimate Lighting 1965
One of the most important images of the Czech New Wave 60s, which was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. Feature debut screenwriter and director Ivan…
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen 1962
The stories of Baron Münchhausen were enriched by Karel Zeman with a character of a modern astronaut Tommy and compare two different worlds – the world of a rococo cavalier…
Cars Without a Home 1959
Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia’s unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.
Black and White Sylva 1961
The heroine of a motion picture falls from the screen and into the real world.
Joseph Kilian 1963
A man borrows a cat and when he goes back to return it, the place where he got it is no longer there. He begins his search.
Distant Journey 1949
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…
Morgiana 1972
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…
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders 1970
A thief awakens Valerie, just 13, taking earrings left to her by her mother. By morning, the earrings have been returned, Valerie’s first period has begun, and a troupe and…
The Pied Piper 1986
The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.
90 Degrees in the Shade 1965
In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock…
Inspiration 1949
It is raining while a writer is working on a new idea. He draws inspiration from the rain, and raindrops become locations for vivid images from his imagination. The character…
Nezvaný host 1969
A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.
The Elementary School 1991
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…
Rosa Luxemburg 1986
Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa’s political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and…
Invention for Destruction 1958
An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.
King Lavra 1950
A king hides an embarrassing secret – and it causes him to execute every barber who cuts his hair.
Ekstase 1933
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn’t have much room for passion. She becomes despondent…
Guernica 1978
The initiation of a young Jewish child into Guernica’s world.
The Cremator 1969
Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead, and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly…