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80
20
8.3
/721/
83
/23/
82
/17/
3.7
/393/

Higher Principle (1960)
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
poster
71
18
7.3
/468/
69
/11/
68
/17/
3.7
/587/

Distant Journey (1949)
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.
poster
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10
/1/
70
/1/

Pas de quatre (1967)
N/A
poster
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6.5
/19/
33
/3/

Čtyři v kruhu (1968)
N/A
poster
?
5.2
/10/
30
/2/
40
/1/

Délka polibku devadesát (1965)
N/A
poster
?
5.6
/13/
10
/1/

Bez svatozáře (1964)
N/A
poster
?
4.6
/19/
10
/1/
25
/2/

Tereza (1961)
N/A
poster
?
5.4
/30/
40
/2/

Kohout plaší smrt (1962)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

Evžen Oněgin (1967)
N/A
poster
?
5.7
/12/
10
/1/

Žalobníci (1961)
N/A
poster
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4.9
/12/
45
/2/
60
/1/

Povodeň (1958)
The construction of the new dam deprived the ferryman Ryba of his trade. The new dam replaced the ferry. However, Ryba's ancestors were ferrymen and the old man would have liked his two sons to take up the same profession. But Joseph is an indecisive weakling and Karel found work on the dam. That's why old Ryba drove him out of the house. The persistent rain brings Ryba miserable joy. The man knows well that a sudden flood can endanger the unfinished dam. In his fanatical hatred, he forgets that the water from a broken dam would sweep away his house and his daughter-in-law and sick grandchild in the first place...
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10
/1/

Země milovaná – Polabí (1952)
N/A
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6.6
/39/
35
/2/
60
/1/

Puppies (1958)
Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forman.
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10
/1/

Days of Joy (1951)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

Maršovská kronika (1951)
N/A
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4.7
/10/
10
/1/
60
/2/

Můj přítel Fabián (1955)
The story of a gypsy named Fabian, who came to work in Kunčice, and his son. Their lives change fundamentally on the great construction site of socialism. They both learn to read and write; Fabian becomes a skilled welder, and little Fabian is accepted into the pioneer organization. However, their transformation is not easy, it is not without many encounters, just like the transformation of Fabian's co-workers, many of whom have not yet overcome their racist prejudices.
poster
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4.4
/9/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Olověný chléb (1954)
N/A
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6.6
/34/
65
/4/

Among Us Thieves (1964)
N/A
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56
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6.5
/66/
62
/12/
40
/1/

Alibi on the Lake (1966)
Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma to cooperate on a new cinéma-vérité film describing the story of Zuzana's disappearance.
poster
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6.3
/25/
10
/1/
40
/1/

August Sunday (1961)
This lyrical comedy story takes place in two hot days in the small South Bohemian village. On the shore of a small pond, summer guests and local youth meet. As is typical of the works of Hrubín, it is a conflict of youth and age, life and death, represented by the medical student Zuzana and her beloved Jirka.
poster
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10
/1/
40
/1/

Případ dr. Kováře (1950)
An ideologically-oriented film set in a prestigious medical sanatorium - a young doctor sympathizes with the poor people of the area, helping workers and their sick children.
poster
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6.3
/72/
70
/1/
65
/2/

The Portrait (1948)
People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon Jordán and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but as he progresses with the work his mind conjures up terrible thoughts and in the end he commits suicide. The portrait looks lifelike and Chazaj is content with the results. After Chazaj's death the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it. The last victim is the young painter Roman who buys Chazaj's portrait in a bazaar. He finds a treasure in the frame and begins to live well off it. The comfortable life suits him so well that he rejects his original artistic aims and becomes a painter of fashionable kitsch.
poster
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6.9
/104/
84
/7/
48
/4/

13th district (1946)
Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknamed The Cat. He rightly suspects that Cat will go and pick up his last loot which the police didn't manage to find and that he will want revenge on Karta who helped get him behind bars. At the hospital, Cat's ex-lover Fróny hopelessly falls for doctor Chrudimský and decides to start a new life. She still refuses to help the inspector in his search for The Cat and Karta.
poster
76
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7.4
/115/
80
/6/
70
/1/

Nobody Knows Anything (1947)
N/A
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6.7
/22/
61
/7/

Old Ironside (1948)
At the end of the war, the old train driver Matys saves his beloved locomotive Líza from depth charges. However, the locomotive is damaged and he is injured. At a critical moment, he stands in for his son-in-law, also a train driver, and thus prevents a train accident. Despite this, he is sent into retirement. To show what the "iron old man" can do, he reconstructs Líza with a group of apprentices...
poster
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4.8
/12/
10
/1/
50
/1/

První parta (1960)
N/A
poster
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6.4
/13/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Zelené obzory (1962)
N/A
poster
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6.1
/13/
50
/3/
58
/2/

A Life at Stake (1956)
The year is 1941 and the German Nazis rule Bohemia with a free hand. Engineer Otakar Racek is an extremely cautious man who tries to avoid problems at all costs. While some of his colleagues are being arrested by the Gestapo, he receives an offer to become the director of a new department. When he refuses to help the wife of an arrested resistance fighter, his wife Vlasta is shaken. However, she loves him, to the point of even resigning herself to the hatred of Otakar's wealthy mother. One day, Vlasta lets her old acquaintance Ondřej Rýdl, who is on the run from the Gestapo, stay at her house for a few days. The wife passes him off to her husband as a distant relative. However, Otakar succumbs to jealousy and, on his mother's advice, hires a private detective to follow Vlasta. However, the detective is also a Gestapo informant and receives a hefty reward for every arrested resistance fighter...
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5.7
/27/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Občan Brych (1959)
František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his former love Irena, unhappily married to factory owner Ondřej Ráž, seeks his understanding. When he helps plan an escape over the Šumava border, the group’s panic and violence lead to murder, prompting Brych to abandon the scheme and return home with Irena.
poster
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6.8
/14/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Velké dobrodružství (1952)
A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptional man, who, however, encounters the disinterest and rejection of the domestic Czech bourgeoisie. To this is added an international perspective - Holub encounters British expansionism in Africa and indignantly rejects colonial methods, trying to help black people.
poster
66
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7.0
/255/
66
/16/
62
/9/

Jan Hus (1955)
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a turbulent time in the Czech Kingdom, during which there were protests in Prague against the sale of "omnipotent indulgences" whose sale throughout the kingdom was announced by Pope John XXIII. The ideological leader of this movement is the preacher Master Jan Hus, whose words, calling for the elimination of church abuses, are listened to in the Bethlehem Chapel by thousands of ordinary Praguers, Czech lords and Queen Sophie, wife of the Czech King Wenceslas IV.
poster
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10
/1/

Pohádka o stromech a větru (1951)
N/A
poster
Hoopla
61
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7.0
/205/
40
/3/
65
/7/
3.5
/232/

The Golden Fern (1963)
Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a village feast, he gets to sign up to the army. The fairy gives him a shirt to wear and asks him to swear he will never abandon it. At the war front, he falls in love with the the colonel's daughter and will have to perform various feats to get her attention.
poster
65
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7.2
/321/
55
/10/
64
/9/
3.6
/486/

Old Czech Legends (1953)
A monumental piece of art bringing the heroes of the ancient Czech myths back to life. The picture consists of seven parts: Cech the Forefather, Bivoj, Libuse, Premysl, Girls War, Horymir, Lucka War.
poster
56
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6.0
/198/
55
/11/
54
/9/

Man in Outer Space (1962)
An upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to Earth 500 years later with an alien companion who wishes to learn more about the human race.
poster
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5.5
/65/
35
/4/
60
/3/

Tank Brigade (1955)
The fate of a tank crew on the most difficult part of the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade's combat path during World War II. We also follow the fate of its commander, Sergeant Juraj Klimka. During the bloody battles for the Dukel Pass, he falls in love and it turns out that behind the mask of a sovereign, he is actually a shy and sensitive person.
poster
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6.8
/69/
54
/5/
61
/4/

Vintage Car (1957)
The history of motoring in Bohemia begins when Laurin and Klement founded a factory for the production of motorcycles. In 1904, the first motorcycle races were held in Dourdan, France, in which Czechs also participated. Czech mechanic František and Nanette, daughter of French mechanic Frontenac, met and fell in love there. Czech racer Vondřich finished second due to a breakdown. In 1905, the race was held again, Vondřich insured himself with a suitcase of spare parts and won. Nanette and František, who had been writing to each other all year, met again. After motorcycles, cars began to be produced everywhere, and in 1909 their first race was organized in Gaillon, France. The Czech racer Count Kolovrat won. His mechanic František married his beloved Nanette in the local church.
poster
58
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5.3
/113/
63
/10/
59
/7/

Hudba z Marsu (1955)
The employees of the furniture company MARS welcome a rare visitor with hired music. Their boast that they would put together an orchestra is taken seriously, so they receive a small gift - musical instruments for thirty musicians.
poster
?
5.8
/44/
50
/4/

Tři zlaté vlasy děda Vševěda (1963)
N/A
poster
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8.0
/64/
50
/2/
60
/2/

Kočár nejsvětější svátosti (1963)
N/A
poster
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4.3
/14/
40
/1/

Pan Habětín odchází (1949)
Cold War Spy FIlm
poster
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5.8
/8/
25
/2/
60
/1/

Severní přístav (1954)
A spy film about how saboteurs obtain important data about the activities of a key company, while also trying to thwart the plan and undermine work morale. But vigilant security agencies intervene in time and stop their heinous raids.
poster
?
3.5
/40/
45
/2/
20
/1/

Anna the Proletarian (1953)
The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.
poster
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6.7
/29/
50
/2/
70
/1/

The Trap (1950)
The drama from the time of the Nazi occupation begins at the train station, where a transport with German soldiers is passing. The train is stopped due to improvised sabotage by one of the railway workers. Resistance liaison Růžena Kubínová is arrested in a random raid. The cynical councilor Dönnert discovers her false documents and has her brutally interrogated. He suspects that she could contribute to exposing the entire group. He puts a informant, Herta, in her cell.
poster
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4.3
/15/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Vstanou noví bojovníci (1951)
The leader of the emerging organized labor movement in the 1880s, Ladislav Zápotocký-Budečský, is exiled to his native village, where he works as a tailor and continues to raise social awareness among members of the working class.
poster
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5.4
/11/
60
/1/
70
/1/

Wild Beasts (1948)
Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposals, one of which is submitted by villainous scoundrels and scoundrels who would like to enrich themselves everywhere. Although the film was made before the communist coup, it already anticipates the political diction of the stories that the approaching Stalinist period will produce.
poster
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3.2
/8/
20
/2/
35
/2/

Dva ohně (1950)
A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker solidarity and continue to do his black business. However, the vigilance of a young, aware worker prevents him from doing so.
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Veselý večer Leonida Lenče (1954)
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