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Criterion Channel
83
81
8.0
/12467/
79
/349/
77
/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
Criterion Channel
80
7.3
/13119/
71
/242/
70
/237/
3.7
/22100/
91
/32/
82
/120/

The Firemen's Ball (1967)
The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement. There will be music and dancing, a beauty pageant and a raffle. The whole town will be in attendance. However, the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. Workplace injuries, stolen prizes, a shortage of pretty girls... and fire.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.6
/14787/
72
/248/
71
/254/
3.9
/19663/
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.6
/13009/
76
/603/
75
/362/
3.9
/19820/
91
/1203/

Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.
poster
79
7.8
/5135/
76
/130/
72
/74/
3.7
/2105/
80
/5/
88
/10/

My Sweet Little Village (1985)
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík's inability to perform even the simplest tasks. Pávek demands that Otík be transferred to assist another driver, who happens to be a choleric and suspicious man named Turek (Turk in Czech). Rather than work with Turek, Otík decides to accept an offer of employment in Prague, but finds he does not fit in to the city life. After discovering that the transfer of Otík to Prague was a trick by a crooked politician to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.4
/14946/
74
/430/
74
/337/
4.0
/43888/
95
/19/
80
/721/

Alice (1988)
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland".
poster
77
7.2
/698/
60
/16/
64
/17/
3.7
/949/
100
/8/
71
/9/

The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965)
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself and everyone living in his building complex in danger.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.2
/17174/
71
/489/
73
/406/
4.0
/127595/
88
/34/
81
/195/

Daisies (1966)
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
76
7.8
/6544/
75
/144/
77
/148/
4.2
/14207/
100
/13/
86
/51/

Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
76
8.2
/10331/
80
/163/
71
/218/
100
/15/
94
/117/

The Shop on Main Street (1965)
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.
poster
73
7.7
/3445/
76
/105/
72
/56/
3.7
/1451/
93
/417/

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.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
71
7.4
/10139/
69
/151/
70
/179/
3.8
/17037/
94
/16/
84
/125/

Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
71
7.0
/12864/
68
/374/
69
/285/
3.5
/67611/
81
/21/
80
/181/

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
poster
79
70
7.9
/5105/
76
/125/
75
/151/
4.0
/10543/
88
/58/

Darkness, Light, Darkness (1989)
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
66
7.7
/3463/
73
/111/
73
/83/
4.0
/11888/
88
/342/

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the satellite.
poster
82
63
8.1
/5195/
77
/145/
76
/158/
4.2
/15379/
93
/15/

Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
63
7.7
/3269/
77
/77/
75
/67/
3.9
/6585/
81
/655/

Witchhammer (1970)
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
poster
76
62
7.4
/3268/
70
/65/
71
/67/
3.8
/2603/
89
/293/

Lemonade Joe (1964)
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
poster
Criterion Channel
81
62
7.7
/3661/
73
/66/
72
/66/
3.9
/5669/
100
/5/
85
/16/

The Ear (1990)
Upon returning home from an official party, a Czech government official and his wife discover it bugged and surveilled by mysterious figures, driving them to paranoia and intensifying their discontents with one another.
poster
Kanopy
78
61
7.8
/2269/
72
/81/
74
/72/
4.0
/8878/
86
/121/

The Pied Piper (1986)
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
61
7.5
/3082/
71
/103/
71
/87/
3.9
/6389/
100
/5/
84
/14/

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
59
7.7
/2090/
71
/32/
69
/45/
4.1
/3619/
93
/132/

The Valley of the Bees (1968)
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to discover his father to be dead, Ondrej now not only assumes control of his father's properties, but seeks to marry his former stepmother.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
59
7.3
/1728/
76
/89/
67
/45/
3.6
/2558/
100

The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.
poster
77
59
8.0
/1533/
81
/157/
77
/46/
3.8
/1369/
91
/75/
62
/41/

Give the Devil His Due (1985)
Dorota, a bad woman married the miller, out of sheer greed drives him to death. She then took the mill away from his son Peter and threw him out of the hime. Lucifer, who is known to rule in hell, sends out the devil Janek. He is supposed to fetch Dorota because the measure of her earthly sins is overflowing. But the devil himself can not handle this evil woman and flees to the military. There he meets Peter. By joining forces, they finally succeed in transporting the wicked Dorota to hell. Since then hell is hell. But for Peter, who is suddenly in possession of a magic mantle, begins a nice time, because strangely, the prince shows great interest in him.
poster
79
57
7.9
/2427/
81
/79/
69
/42/
3.7
/1231/
94
/244/

Run, Waiter, Run! (1981)
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
56
7.3
/3149/
71
/45/
70
/72/
3.9
/7941/
92
/12/
71
/14/

Diamonds of the Night (1964)
Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
56
6.9
/3253/
68
/117/
68
/103/
3.7
/7811/

Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
55
7.1
/2875/
74
/101/
72
/68/
3.6
/5152/

Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
55
7.0
/3337/
68
/42/
66
/63/
3.6
/4046/
73
/475/

Black Peter (1964)
A few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
poster
75
54
7.9
/2221/
73
/68/
74
/74/
4.0
/7463/

The Hand (1965)
A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his only friend, a potted plant. As the hand's request gives way to bribery, demands, and threats, the potter becomes more desperate to escape its clutch, leading to tragedy.
poster
Hoopla
75
54
7.4
/2239/
75
/80/
75
/58/
3.8
/2599/

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (1978)
When 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 against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
poster
74
53
7.5
/2293/
73
/59/
74
/86/
3.9
/11730/

Beauty and the Beast (1979)
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.
poster
78
53
8.1
/2454/
81
/94/
77
/66/
3.8
/1373/

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
poster
75
52
7.1
/1135/
64
/23/
70
/34/
3.9
/3091/
93
/371/

Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969)
In the aftermath of war, two men and a woman begin acting more like children than adults, leading to tragedy.
poster
76
52
7.6
/1706/
79
/140/
76
/34/
3.8
/1998/

With You The World Is Fun (1983)
Three middle-aged go for a vacation into the mountains with their children. How will they cope with their youngsters every-day needs without their wives? The annual men's ride of three fathers becomes something like a kindergarten in the winter countryside due to the wives' vigorous intervention. It turns out that in certain situations, fathers make better moms than moms themselves, which is especially true when moms aren't in sight. Their parenting methods are very peculiar and cause a lot of confusion and hilarity...
poster
77
51
7.8
/1569/
76
/56/
74
/54/
4.1
/3331/

Happy End (1967)
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
poster
74
50
7.6
/1927/
70
/38/
73
/44/
3.9
/2770/

The Flat (1968)
A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
50
7.1
/1793/
65
/20/
66
/34/
3.6
/2599/
82
/324/

Intimate Lighting (1965)
A musician and his girlfriend visit an old musician friend of his and his family.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
50
7.0
/1961/
65
/34/
69
/38/
3.6
/3268/
68
/185/

The Party and the Guests (1966)
A picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
50
6.7
/1379/
67
/25/
62
/47/
3.7
/4649/
84
/234/

Fruit of Paradise (1970)
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.
poster
72
50
7.5
/2916/
70
/59/
71
/46/
3.6
/1566/

Cutting It Short (1981)
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.
poster
60
49
6.6
/3045/
58
/69/
63
/76/
3.5
/2706/
54
/13/
53
/33/

Ecstasy (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 and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake, she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
48
7.2
/2330/
73
/80/
69
/70/
3.9
/15436/
95
/10/

When the Cat Comes (1963)
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in town.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
45
7.5
/858/
61
/16/
70
/29/
3.9
/1781/
83
/47/

The White Dove (1960)
A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.
poster
70
44
7.4
/1461/
63
/22/
68
/41/
3.8
/2698/

Virile Games (1988)
A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players then leave the football pitch and invade the spectator's flat.
poster
70
44
7.2
/1589/
67
/30/
65
/37/
3.9
/3724/

Jabberwocky (1971)
In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes. Like Carroll's verse, the images are at once familiar and unfamiliar. A child's play suit, hanging in the wardrobe, becomes the adventure's protagonist.
poster
73
44
7.4
/1585/
76
/63/
75
/39/
3.5
/659/
73

The Good Soldier Švejk (1957)
Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
43
7.5
/1200/
66
/21/
78
/16/
3.8
/1305/
94
/80/

All My Good Countrymen (1969)
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.


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