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56
/669/
2.5
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25
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30
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Cadaver (2020)
In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family find hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they discover that the evening's entertainment blurs the lines between performance and reality. Will they wind up the spectators or the spectacle?
poster
71
43
7.2
/1254/
70
/42/
70
/41/
3.6
/949/
73
/298/

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!
poster
56
27
6.2
/994/
59
/13/
55
/26/
50

Under a False Name (2004)
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
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72
25
7.4
/913/
77
/41/
68
/26/
3.5
/491/

You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
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4.8
/10/
10
/1/

Uzavřený okruh (1989)
A dramatic story about the devastation of the environment and human character.
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5.4
/13/

Zuřivý reportér (1988)
Josef Laufer portrays Egon Erwin Kisch in two daring journalistic adventures: in “Zuřivý reportér,” Kisch goes undercover in a poverty lodging house, uncovers a tattoo’s dark backstory and deciphers a secret telegram hinting at war via the legend of the black rose; in “Lovci senzací,” he pursues sensational leads and exposes hidden truths, proving why he was rightly called “the raging reporter.”
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4.4
/19/
20
/1/

Figurky ze šmantů (1988)
Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.
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4.1
/13/
10
/1/
20
/1/

Kariéra (1985)
The story of a young man who found the meaning of love and a place in life at the cost of a loss.
poster
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5.8
/6/

Výsledek testu (1986)
N/A
poster
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5.9
/15/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Zakázaný výlet (1981)
Based on a real event - the shooting of a group of working-class children on 20 April 1930 in Radotín. Thirteen-year-old Boženka‘s mother works as a laundress, and Boženka and her two younger siblings are not living on a bed of roses.
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2.2
/11/
10
/1/

Na koho to slovo padne... (1980)
A political drama dealing with the issues of contemporary construction and highlighting the various relationships within the party apparatus.
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Fandango at Home Free
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3.4
/11/

Oddechový čas (1978)
The drama of a man for whom work has become the only meaning of life. His cold and impersonal manner arouses the disapproval of his colleagues and family members and leads to alienation. Eventually, he realizes the need for "time out" to reflect on his own life...
poster
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4.7
/15/

Dům Na poříčí (1977)
The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great construction disaster in Prague in 1928, in which 46 construction workers died. The disaster thrilled the entire republic at the time, yet was never fully explained. The filmmakers focus on the story of Ing. Vondrák, the designer of the construction.
poster
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5.9
/27/
40
/2/

Zrcadlo pro Kristýnu (1976)
N/A
poster
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6.8
/13/
10
/1/

Sedm havranů (1967)
N/A
poster
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7.7
/10/
35
/2/

Starý Burgunďan (1966)
N/A
poster
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5.0
/11/
10
/1/

Třiatřicet stříbrných křepelek (1965)
N/A
poster
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7.1
/52/
25
/2/

Jen o rodinných záležitostech (1991)
Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.
poster
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7.0
/20/
35
/2/
85
/2/

Passing Through a Thick Forest (1964)
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6.4
/28/
57
/4/
20
/1/

Bylo nás deset (1963)
N/A
poster
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6.5
/56/
64
/7/
40
/3/

Svědectví mrtvých očí (1971)
When former criminal Gaudl discovers the strange behaviour of his son-in-law Professor Horacek, he becomes worried about his daughter Hedwig and starts to gather evidence. When his suspicions seem justified, he visits his former colleague and friend, Lieutenant Colonel Maca. Little does Hedvika know that her husband is having an affair with their lodger Daniela. When her husband tells her of his intention to divorce her, she makes a scene at the least convenient time, while driving the car. This causes a crash in which a young hitchhiker is killed. She persuades her husband to drive away from the scene of the accident. In doing so, she takes a picture of her husband hiding the young girl's corpse in the woods. She now has a gun in her hand to blackmail the man, who decides to settle the matter once and for all.
poster
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60
/1/

Na dvoře vévodském (1979)
N/A
poster
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5.0
/10/
10
/1/

Concert (1981)
Rock concerts used to be suspicious. They were supposed to attract all sorts of strange individuals who meant no good. In this case, it's a pair of escaped convicts who want to hide in the heat of the concert...
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5.0
/12/
60
/1/

Silnější než strach (1979)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

Silvestrovské kousky Františka Housky (1971)
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2.0
/16/
50
/1/
20
/1/

Dvacátý devátý (1975)
In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building mission of the Communist Party and attributed to it exclusively humanitarian intentions ("Days of Betrayal", "Sokolovo", "Liberation of Prague", "The Victorious People"). In 1929, when its fifth congress met, Klement Gottwald, who had taken the line of the Russian Bolsheviks, took over the leadership of the Communists...
poster
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5.7
/67/
78
/8/
42
/4/

Diagnóza smrti (1979)
Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man picking mushrooms. The woman is identified as Katerina Marková, the divorced mother of a young girl. Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) suspects that she is a victim of mugging since a bloodstained small ax has been found near the site of the crime and, according to witnesses, Ms Marková was missing her watch and a bracelet, from which a gemstone has also been discovered. Linhart has lost his only kidney in the accident; in order to live a normal life again, he will need a kidney transplant from the mugged woman if she dies.
poster
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5.8
/18/
10
/1/

Don't Call Me Major (1981)
A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling.
poster
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3.4
/8/
100
/1/

Good Day, Town (1976)
The town is waking up. The bus driver Josef Král is saying goodbye to his wife Vera who is in a state of advanced pregnancy. At the rolling mill, the master craftsman Mares is preparing for retirement, which is now only two days away. Elderly Simon who grows and sells vegetables at the market has problems with his wife. Their little home has to give way to a new development but the wife Simonka refuses to move out. The chairman of the workers' council has troubles with the miner Adam, who has started drinking. He doesn't know that Adam is getting divorced and fears he may lose his young son to his wife.
poster
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5.4
/76/
40
/4/
50
/3/

Days of Betrayal (1973)
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
poster
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4.8
/35/
43
/3/
60
/1/

Horká kaše (1989)
In the 1980s, a number of films were made about teenagers. At first they dealt with the confusing search for life orientation, the difficult entry into adult life - and gradually the interest shifted to delinquent youth. This film charts the conditions in a dehumanised housing estate, where youths, out of boredom, gather into gangs that wander aimlessly, humiliate passers-by, and attack the defenceless. He discovers that parents have too little time for these children, that their actions are downplayed until tragedy strikes.
poster
54
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6.0
/58/
66
/11/
36
/3/

How to Dupe a Lawyer (1980)
Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take various risks.
poster
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6.3
/14/
30
/2/

Prague Blues (1963)
African student Omar would like to return home to Angola, but he is enrolled in a three-year postgraduate research fellowship at a clinic in Prague. One day while seeing off a friend at the airport, he and a girl named Mariama are brought together by chance as he offers to accompany her in an unfamiliar city toward the International Student Club, where she plays bass in a jazz orchestra.
poster
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6.7
/14/
25
/2/

Five Men and One Heart (1971)
In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene are combined with documentary footage of actual operations, which were filmed at the University Hospital in Hradec Králové. The unique cinematic experiment theater and TV director after only a few years remind viewers.
poster
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5.8
/26/
33
/3/
30
/2/

Oldrich and Bozena (1985)
At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war between the Přemyslovci and the other clans the main profiteer of this being the German emperor. At that time it seemed as if the Czech state and the lineage of its princes was awaiting its end..." It is with these words that the tale of this film begins, whose narrative is based upon the the play by František Hrubín of the same name.
poster
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6.0
/40/
58
/5/
35
/2/

The Motive for Murder (1975)
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in order to silence her. However, he accidentally kills another woman. In "Hostages", a drug addict, Chaban, terrorizes the hospital's operating team, but the disciplined doctors handle the difficult situation. In "The Pickpocket", the thief Benda wants to return to his trade immediately after his release, but his attempt ends tragically.
poster
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1.8
/17/
100
/1/

Magische Momente - Ein himmlisch fauler Engel (2019)
Aspiring angel Addi is annoyed. She is sent to Earth to accompany the serious Marie-Louise on her train journey to her grandmother's house shortly before Christmas. Marie-Louise, however, wants nothing to do with her companion...
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74
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7.5
/504/
74
/19/
73
/16/

Assassination (1965)
In autumn 1941, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich’s brutal rule in occupied Bohemia and Moravia fuels Czech resistance. In spring 1942, the government-in-exile sends trained paratroopers led by Lt. Král on a mission to assassinate him. Masters Strnad and Vyskočil ambush Heydrich’s open Mercedes in Prague’s Libeň district, mortally wounding him despite a jammed submachine gun. Their success triggers harsh Nazi reprisals, mass executions, and an intense manhunt for the operatives.
poster
60
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6.7
/138/
60
/13/
47
/8/

Fear (1964)
A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on volunteer work some time before. The police detectives, Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) can then get on the trail of the people with whom the victim was involved, especially at the photographic studio headed by Bohuslav Pacer (Bohus Záhorský).
poster
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4.6
/11/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Zločin v Modré hvězdě (1974)
It is 1920, political unrest is growing in Prague and the Social Democrats are about to betray their historic mission by prioritising their own selfish interests instead of those of the working class. An extortionist scandal falls on the Social Democratic deputy Jandák, forcing him to renounce his convictions. Under these circumstances, the seriously ill Hungarian revolutionary Kerekes, who had to flee his homeland, is hiding in Prague...
poster
72
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7.2
/292/
72
/21/
73
/12/

If a Thousand Clarinets (1965)
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately found by TV station. And soon the military base becomes a stage for huge TV show.
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68
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6.9
/371/
69
/32/
65
/17/

Currency and Peace (1988)
Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin finds out he was rooked, he plans revenge on Robert ... but then decides to join Robert's gang instead.
poster
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Náhodou je príma! (1988)
Even ideology permeated the children's stories: the beginnings of forced collectivisation in the village are seen through the eyes of a young boy. As the son of an honest and deliberate communist official, there is no shortage of informed insight, even if it is lightened slightly by the occasional wacky idea. However, childhood friendships or even loves run up against the conflicts of an excited age, especially when the protagonist's best friends come from families of class enemies.
poster
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Ohnivý máj (1975)
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Začátkem září se dalo do deště (1978)
N/A
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Vedlejší cesta (1977)
N/A
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Vrtkavý král (1975)
The historical television play was written based on Vančura's Pictures from the History of the Czech Nation and takes place against the backdrop of the European situation at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Přemysl Otakar I., father of Agnes of Přemyslid, sought recognition of the Czech lands as a hereditary kingdom. And what about his love and fickleness? The story will answer this, in which poetry and truth diverge only in the degree of emotional movements, in the tremors of souls, which lead to love as well as to hatred.


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