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Criterion Channel
83
81
8.0
/12614/
79
/355/
77
/257/
4.3
/47144/
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
Criterion Channel
80
7.6
/14871/
72
/250/
71
/258/
3.9
/21440/
90
/21/
86
/237/

Closely Watched Trains (1966)
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
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Kanopy
77
7.2
/17335/
71
/501/
72
/415/
4.0
/139304/
88
/34/
81
/198/

Daisies (1966)
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
poster
73
7.7
/3459/
76
/107/
72
/57/
3.7
/1660/
93
/7/

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 teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very fair. His weakness though, is his interest in young women.
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Criterion Channel
67
42
6.9
/1749/
66
/35/
63
/33/
3.4
/1875/
71
/7/
69
/14/

Capricious Summer (1968)
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...
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75
42
7.3
/2374/
71
/45/
68
/44/
3.7
/2090/
89
/6/

Larks on a String (1990)
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
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Amazon Prime Video
68
30
6.8
/622/
69
/24/
55
/19/
3.3
/433/
86
/7/

The Interpreter (2018)
80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realises his parents were executed by him. He sets out to take revenge but finds instead his 70-year-old son, Georg, a retired teacher. Georg, who had avoided his father all his life, decides to find out more about him and offers Ali to be his interpreter.
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Plex
68
29
7.3
/625/
66
/20/
72
/11/
64
/11/
83
/8/
50
/9/

All My Loved Ones (1999)
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama was filmed on the real events as a tribute to Mr. Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport from German-occupied Czechoslovakia and likely death in the Holocaust.
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Cultpix
58
29
5.8
/788/
59
/24/
53
/34/
3.2
/1750/

Ferat Vampire (1982)
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A scientist convinces him that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, but does that really work?
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Criterion Channel
61
27
6.5
/875/
65
/13/
59
/31/
3.5
/1821/
50
/2/

Pearls of the Deep (1966)
A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded discussions, and death; two elderly men create false biographies; insurance agents visit an eccentric painter/goat farmer and his mother; guests at a wedding reception remain oblivious to outlying misery; and a working-class boy romances a Roma girl.
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Criterion Channel
61
17
6.5
/414/
54
/9/
56
/17/
3.5
/745/

The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)
Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and seemingly satisfied man decide to end his own life. Jan's pretty wife Jana (Jana Brejchová) claims not to know about anything but she is conducting an affair with a family friend, almost publicly and with the blessing of her parents.
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Criterion Channel
61
15
6.4
/203/
57
/4/
53
/9/
3.5
/1058/

Ceiling (1962)
The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.
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Criterion Channel
52
11
6.3
/394/
53
/11/
59
/12/
3.4
/570/
20
/9/

Courage for Every Day (1965)
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.
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?
5.4
/15/

Zvonokosy (1990)
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6.3
/9/

A bárány utolsó megkísértése (2006)
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5.7
/28/
10
/1/
20
/1/

Revenge (1995)
A celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to a calm divorce and his isolation in a luxurious but empty villa with his nearly grown daughter. His attempts to fill the void through a high-end escort only delay the real crisis, when he cannot accept his daughter’s first great love.
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?
50
/1/

Milan Čorba (2014)
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?
7.2
/10/

Minden szerdán (1979)
Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school. Later he works in a cleaning brigade and accidentally meets József Draskóczi, who denounced him. Draskóczi lives in an unloving, troubled atmosphere with his barren daughter and cynical son-in-law, ascetic about his youthful communist beliefs. He feels responsible for Istvan's fate, offering him a human voice and love. Despite his daughter's hysterical jealousy, he sends Istvan to school and then, through his previous connections, provides him with an apartment...
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?
10
/1/

Hra na telo (1980)
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?
5.5
/74/

The Sunken Cemetery (2002)
Ivan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town - a typical Middle - European small town in Northern of Croatia. His roaming through Europe left him in a rather distraught state and he is now in search for his identity and peace of mind. As a child of five, he was, literary taken from his birth-place and now - bereft of his parents and family, he will try to solve the puzzling event of his childhood. Thus, in this place where so many unusual things have happened which may have had an influence on the dramatic destiny his family has suffered, he turns attention to himself by to his personal investigation. The town is, however, threatened by the river which already has sunk a good part of the cemetery. Along this threat an unexpected plot, in the genre of a film noir, thriller and horror - a certain «fantasy of soul», develops.
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?
6.6
/50/
20
/1/

Franciska vasárnapjai (1996)
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7.4
/23/
46
/3/
60
/1/

Pension pro svobodné pány (1965)
A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed and takes great advantage of her situation. For the heart of the comedy lies in the problem of how to get rid of a difficult girl in the morning.
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10
/1/

Hory hory (1964)
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10
/1/

Dobrá rada je nad zlato (1964)
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4.7
/11/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Volejte Martina (1966)
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5.0
/49/
53
/3/
37
/4/

Fandy ó Fandy (1983)
Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek, who has just graduated from high school without much glory and is about to start his first job. Fandy is still full of boyish dreams, yearns for a career as a rowing representative, competes with a friend for the favor of an admiring girl and is generally stubbornly opposed to taking life seriously.
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FilmBox+
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...
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?
10
/1/

Martin Speaking (1966)
The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:
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?
6.4
/25/
40
/2/

Flám (1966)
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?
4.9
/11/

Passing Fancy (1983)
The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of absence. In a café he meets his former friend Lajos, who has just broken up with his lover, Márta, because of the wife of professor Büchler. The transiently formed, rootless Rácz gets entangled into the sophisticated, complicated love affairs of bored or tired ladies.
poster
?
4.9
/11/
46
/3/

Zimní víla (2006)
Kateřina works at an inn run by her evil stepmother. One day, she meets a young man she doesn't know in the forest. He is Prince Jan, and he is surprised when he sees his fairy from the forest at the inn. He sees how the innkeeper treats the girl and promises her that he will come back for her. The stepmother is frightened and has the girl thrown into a ravine. Kateřina is saved by Jan's soldiers, but the stepmother...
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?
6.4
/41/
32
/4/
51
/8/

Searching (1966)
Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence. They are trying to repress their feelings of guilt and justify their behavior to the young generation with memories of their heroic war feats. Michal, however, does not want to have anything to do with their problems. He subconsciously perceives the unpleasant atmosphere in the family as well as his father's hypocrisy. After one of many quarrels with his father, he runs away from home, determined to go his own way.
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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.
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DocAlliance Films
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5.5
/86/
70
/3/
30
/4/

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (2016)
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.
poster
DocAlliance Films
69
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7.6
/200/
69
/10/
63
/3/

Daddy (2004)
This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.
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?
6.6
/16/

Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions (2011)
An idiosyncratic reflection on the film Larks on a String and its history, shot by it's director Jiri Menzel.
poster
?
5
/2/

An Occasion to Speak (1966)
Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.
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?
7.5
/23/
60
/1/
60
/3/

To Make a Comedy Is No Fun (2016)
Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others.
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Cultpix
69
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6.6
/272/
71
/21/
69
/8/

Hearty Greetings from the Globe (1983)
​Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.
poster
63
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7.3
/102/
60
/4/
58
/9/

Dita Saxová (1968)
A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.
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?
6.6
/93/
35
/2/
70
/1/

Martha and I (1990)
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
poster
57
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5.5
/109/
59
/11/
59
/5/

How to Deserve a Princess (1995)
A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.
poster
?
5.8
/63/
36
/3/
75
/2/

Too Loud A Solitude (1995)
An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.
poster
61
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7.4
/108/
57
/4/
53
/3/

The Gentle Barbarian (1990)
A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
poster
?
6.2
/66/

Útek do Budína (2002)
The love story of students Jana and Tomáš begins in Prague just after the establishment of the First Republic. Their impulsive "escape to Buda" marks not only the liberation of the dissatisfied Jana from her monotonous life with her mentally unstable mother, but also the beginning of their fateful marriage. They settle in the picturesque Slovak foothills, on the sprawling estate of Tomáš's vital father, with whom Jana strikes up a deep friendship. Soon, however, she is visibly affected by Tomáš's surprising transformation. The marital crisis is deepened by the unstoppable decline of the estate. The family's efforts to establish itself in Vienna, which after the collapse of the monarchy is only a memory of its former glory, also fail. Jan's enterprising brother-in-law lends a helping hand. The return to prosperous Prague is their last chance, but it brings something different to everyone...
poster
DocAlliance Films
63
?
6.9
/326/
56
/3/
59
/6/
3.4
/406/

The Apple Game (1978)
Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game anymore.
poster
?
20
/1/

Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte (2001)
The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany.
poster
63
?
7.0
/149/
78
/6/
42
/5/

Run, He Is Coming! (1987)
A comedy about happiness, Indian magic and adultery. One day Mr and Mrs Sysel happen to solve the problem of lacking enough room in their tiny flat. They break through the wall into their neighbour's comfortable flat, from which they borrow not only additional square feets of space, but things of his personal property as well.


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