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Criterion Channel
83
81
8.0
/12544/
79
/355/
78
/254/
4.3
/43336/
89
/9/
90
/66/

The Cremator (1969)
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
poster
61
19
6.7
/643/
69
/28/
58
/28/
3.5
/510/
40
/8/

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
poster
74
17
7.9
/714/
80
/41/
65
/15/
3.7
/269/

Men About Town (1969)
Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.
poster
Criterion Channel
64
15
6.6
/342/
58
/15/
65
/11/
3.4
/767/

The Junk Shop (1965)
Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.
poster
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6.0
/13/
10
/1/

Hvězda (1969)
N/A
poster
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4.8
/24/
10
/1/
30
/2/

A Matter of Days (1969)
Françoise, a French sociology student, moves to Czechoslovakia to write her thesis. She falls in love with Pavel, a professor. But the events of the "Prague Spring" begin and Pavel decides to collaborate. Françoise returns to France and meets up with her militant friends on the eve of the events of May 68 in Paris.
poster
?
7.2
/10/
10
/1/

Červená kůlna (1968)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

Zločin a trik II. (1967)
N/A
poster
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7.2
/12/
10
/1/
80
/1/

A Man Who Rose in Price (1968)
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter who tattooed his back in drunkenness the previous night. The image tattooed on Benda’s back is considered the painter’s best work by the professionals.
poster
?
6.9
/50/
10
/1/
60
/1/

How to Get Rid of Helenka (1968)
Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical information he provides as well as by the speaker's melodious voice and his heart-felt performance. Then she gets an idea for a prank. She calls the speaker from the neighboring room on the phone and pretends to be an unhappily married woman who draws all her strength to live from Petrícek's voice.
poster
62
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6.5
/191/
62
/4/
59
/8/

Crime in the Night Club (1968)
The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of the singer Clara. The real culprits must be found as soon as possible...
poster
?
6.8
/33/
54
/5/

Naše bláznivá rodina (1968)
Twelve-year-old Jana returns from the hospital. She notices some changes at home and is worried that her parents are going to divorce. In reality, however, they are expecting another child.
poster
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5.5
/19/
90
/2/
90
/1/

Panenství a kriminál (1970)
An attractive and challenging 16-year-old girl has no shortage of admirers, but she becomes the cause of a small-town problem when she accuses her charming uncle of rape after trying in vain to seduce him. The bitter comedy, the only film directed by actor Václav Lohnisky, relies on the lively acting of both Vladimír Menšík as the eloquent uncle and Lucie Žulová as the mischievous seductress.
poster
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10
/1/

Silvestrovské kousky Františka Housky (1971)
N/A
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6.2
/80/
53
/3/
47
/3/

Sign of the Cancer (1967)
A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
poster
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6.8
/25/
10
/1/

Nevěsta (1970)
The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very young Zdena (Marta Vancurová), too, dreams about a white veil and an entourage of bridesmaids. On her return home from work, she runs into a peculiar man on an abandoned road who pertinaciously offers to read her palm for a few crowns to buy soup. His augury is rather usual - wealth and poverty, suffering and happiness. Then however, he declares that Zdena must marry exactly on 3 November of that year otherwise she will be unhappy.
poster
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6.0
/33/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Looking Back (1969)
Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's female author, a University professor and writer named Olga Machová (Jirina Trebická), approximately ten-years-older than him. In the beginning, they do not understand each other at all. Frantisek is a skeptic experiencing a moral crisis, unsatisfied with both his work and his private life - he lives separated from his wife and has no deeper feelings for his numerous lovers. He even gets drunk from time to time and breaks the public peace. Olga is lonesome, too, but considers her life fulfilled.
poster
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7.0
/35/
25
/2/
47
/3/

Lucie and the Miracles (1971)
The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl. Lucy's fondest wish is to find new parents and leave an orphanage. She befriends a man who can create doors from paint. He gives her a stuffed dog that magically comes alive when placed on the ground, and he and his wife end up adopting the little girl. After finding parents of her own, Lucy sets out through fantasy to find parents for her orphan friends. All of the people Lucy meet during her remarkable make believe wanderings end up taking children home.
poster
62
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7.5
/201/
68
/13/
45
/6/

On the Trail of Blood (1970)
Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a child. A gypsy boy has been killed three weeks ago and his body found under a rock. As the investigation continues, another dead boy is found. The boy has bled to death after someone cut his artery with a handsaw. Both deaths are obviously the work of a murderer - a perverted pedophile, sadist who gets sexual satisfaction from the sight of a young boy's blood.
poster
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6.3
/28/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Ta naše písnička česká (1967)
N/A
poster
35
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3.3
/9/
10
/1/
62
/35/

DS-70 nevyjíždí (1951)
N/A
poster
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7.4
/35/
10
/1/
70
/2/

A Touch of a Butterfly (1972)
A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to him. He feels that he saw her in an old castle, where only the old countess and sister live. It is precisely in their salon in the city that she meets the girl again and learns her history
poster
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7.4
/13/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Jak se dělá divadlo (1970)
N/A
poster
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7.1
/16/
10
/1/

Horký vzduch (1965)
N/A
poster
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7.6
/23/
45
/2/
50
/1/

Dobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce (1955)
Orphan Jirka lives alone with his grandfather by the river. He spends all his free time by the water and does not grow up with the other children. His biggest dream is to catch a big pike, which he knows that he can't do without friends. ► International Film Festival of Documentary and Experimental Films Montevideo - 1956 - 1st Main Prize (Distributor's Official Text)
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4.3
/12/
10
/1/

A Man on the Run (1969)
More than twenty years after the Second World War, a mining engineer named Fischer is revealed as a former member of the Gestapo, Karel Kraus. He is sentenced for murder to eight years in prison and now works with other prisoners on the renovation of the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia in Prague. Then a car with a foreign registration begins to park regularly close to the construction site. Its crew, a man and a woman, contact the construction foreman, who probably would not reject a bribe offer to perform some service. The prisoner Bicík is appointed to work with Kraus; Bicík gives him a message from Kraus' brother Bert, who lives abroad, that he wants to help him escape.
poster
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4.2
/13/
10
/1/

Svatá hříšnice (1970)
In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to salvation by hymns and sermons, and Ferdys Pistora hunts in the pockets of his fellow men and isn't even put off by the presence of an officer of the law. Ferdys sets off to burgle villa of the banker Rosenstok, but a fire breaks out in the house and Ferdys ends up saving the banker's two small children. For this he is celebrated as a hero and gets a place as an errand boy with the Rosenstoks. At home he is visited by representatives of the Salvation Army, Captain Kosterka and Terezka, with whom Ferdys instantly falls in love.
poster
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7.1
/76/
63
/3/
60
/4/

The Borstal (1990)
A young teacher is sent to a rural reform school, where he is faced with brutality of the inmates.
poster
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6.6
/37/
10
/1/
70
/2/

Three of Us and Dog from Petipas (1972)
The summer holidays are approaching and the children are bragging about all the exciting places they are going to visit during the long-awaited two months of summer. Only Tonda is not looking forward to staying in Prague over the holidays. He brightens up after his father announces that the boy can visit some friends of the family in the village of Petipas.
poster
65
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7.2
/451/
57
/7/
55
/10/
3.5
/461/

Oil Lamps (1971)
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
poster
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5.0
/43/
10
/1/
35
/4/

The Limping Devil (1968)
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...
poster
65
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6.7
/378/
62
/26/
68
/16/

Six Bears and a Clown (1972)
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.


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