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Criterion Channel
83
81
8.0
/12609/
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
79
7.6
/13518/
76
/624/
75
/373/
4.0
/27940/
91
/70/

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
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/41592/
76
/1597/
76
/1067/
4.0
/252435/
91
/33/
87
/9231/
73
/13/
cc age 13+

Fantastic Planet (1973)
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
71
7.0
/13000/
68
/376/
69
/289/
3.5
/75209/
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
75
70
7.3
/7327/
70
/147/
69
/149/
3.8
/9423/
84
/43/
84
/371/
74
/13/

Little Otik (2001)
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.
poster
82
63
8.1
/5224/
77
/146/
76
/160/
4.2
/15923/
93
/15/

Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
poster
Cultpix
76
62
7.4
/3292/
70
/66/
71
/67/
3.8
/2884/
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
70
62
7.1
/4127/
71
/77/
67
/70/
3.7
/3415/
64
/33/
83
/163/
63
/16/

Lunacy (2005)
A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man might have predicted.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
61
7.5
/3101/
71
/103/
71
/88/
3.9
/6844/
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
Kanopy
78
60
7.7
/3499/
74
/118/
73
/86/
4.0
/12999/
88
/21/

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
Criterion Channel
77
59
7.3
/1753/
76
/89/
67
/46/
3.6
/2813/
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
/1581/
81
/158/
76
/47/
3.9
/1918/
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
Kanopy
68
56
6.1
/3420/
64
/465/
59
/128/
3.1
/3580/
95
/41/
56
/1/
74
/6/

Restore Point (2023)
It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambitious, young detective the opportunity to solve a case of a murdered couple when the restoration team is able to bring one of them back.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
56
6.9
/3268/
68
/118/
68
/104/
3.7
/8303/

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
77
55
7.9
/2244/
73
/70/
74
/75/
4.1
/8354/

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
75
54
7.5
/2376/
74
/60/
74
/87/
4.0
/15285/

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
Hoopla
75
54
7.4
/2264/
75
/82/
75
/59/
3.8
/3016/

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
Cultpix
77
51
7.8
/1583/
76
/58/
74
/54/
4.1
/3471/

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
/1936/
70
/39/
73
/44/
3.9
/2862/

The Flat (1968)
A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
poster
Kanopy
77
48
7.8
/2316/
72
/84/
73
/74/
4.0
/10457/
82
/7/

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
77
48
7.2
/2362/
72
/80/
69
/71/
3.9
/16105/
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
70
44
7.4
/1465/
63
/22/
68
/41/
3.8
/2894/

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
42
7.5
/1381/
60
/17/
72
/40/
3.8
/1657/

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1991)
A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).
poster
73
41
7.5
/1317/
71
/33/
72
/44/
3.8
/1405/

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978)
Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every Christmas one of the boys has to face the master in a magical duel, where the boy never stands a chance because the master is the only person who is allowed to use a secret spell: The Koraktor.
poster
74
41
7.2
/1889/
71
/50/
71
/57/
3.8
/9256/
81
/4/

Morgiana (1972)
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.
poster
77
41
7.8
/1394/
83
/82/
77
/39/
3.6
/1083/

The Three Veterans (1984)
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.
poster
72
38
7.6
/1109/
68
/16/
68
/33/
3.8
/1617/

The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (1983)
Animated short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".
poster
73
38
7.2
/1230/
80
/72/
67
/30/
3.7
/1324/

The Princess with the Golden Star (1959)
A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.
poster
74
38
7.1
/1639/
72
/72/
61
/50/
3.7
/1911/
90
/4/

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot.
poster
Cultpix
71
36
7.2
/1260/
70
/42/
70
/41/
3.6
/1129/
73
/14/

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
72
36
7.5
/1424/
77
/68/
66
/35/
3.7
/971/

How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...
poster
Criterion Channel
65
34
6.3
/940/
63
/33/
69
/24/
3.4
/6207/

Wolf's Hole (1987)
Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors.
poster
70
33
7.1
/1580/
74
/35/
65
/32/
3.5
/1001/

Wild Flowers (2000)
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
poster
74
32
7.6
/849/
74
/67/
70
/21/
3.8
/1458/

Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
poster
71
30
7.1
/526/
65
/12/
71
/18/
3.9
/1790/

A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959)
The first puppet film shot in CinemaScope. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jiří Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
poster
Cultpix
58
29
5.8
/786/
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?
poster
70
27
7.1
/562/
72
/61/
68
/22/
3.5
/1003/

The Seven Ravens (2015)
The story of a young woman who takes it upon herself to save her brothers and rid them of a curse which they were put under by their mother.
poster
69
26
6.9
/994/
78
/46/
59
/23/
3.5
/1044/

Prince and the Evening Star (1979)
A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young Prince Velen, who is left in charge of the castle and his three sisters. During the night he has a visitation and before he knows it, all his sisters are married off and gone away, and himself falls in love with beautiful Večernice. Now he is faced with the King's wraths and charged with a quest. The journey, however, hides obstacles and danger; not only treacherous merchants and robbers, but also a evil wizard Mrakomor...
poster
Kanopy
64
25
6.7
/314/
54
/12/
56
/14/
3.7
/2278/

Killing the Devil (1970)
A lonely woman gets more than she bargained for when she begins wooing Mr Devil, an insatiable glutton who turns out to be the boyfriend from Hell.
poster
72
25
7.4
/916/
77
/41/
68
/26/
3.6
/522/

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.
poster
Kanopy
58
24
5.9
/711/
62
/19/
43
/23/
3.4
/1404/

Visitors from the Galaxy (1981)
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
24
7.4
/884/
80
/38/
60
/22/
3.6
/663/

Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation
poster
64
22
6.4
/567/
68
/93/
63
/23/
3.1
/488/

Princess Cursed in Time (2020)
Princess Elen wakes up on her birthday knowing she must either kill the evil witch who cursed her or find her true love. The princess has got one last chance to save herself and the kingdom. If she doesn´t manage either, the kingdom will be destroyed. Will she be able to persuade her friends, break the strong spell and defeat the powerful witch?
poster
68
22
6.7
/616/
70
/11/
66
/16/
3.5
/1069/

Castle of Otranto (1977)
An adaptation of the 1764 work of the same name, the first Gothic novel. In this mockumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr. Vozáb has set to prove that the supernatural ghost love story takes place not in Italy, but in Otranto Castle near Náchod in Czechoslovakia.
poster
62
22
6.8
/852/
56
/18/
56
/23/
3.5
/1339/
62
/2/

The Fall of the House of Usher (1982)
In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse. The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic.
poster
69
22
7.0
/835/
77
/45/
61
/26/
3.4
/476/

A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
poster
67
21
7.5
/509/
53
/13/
70
/18/
3.7
/796/

The Last Theft (1987)
A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?
poster
73
20
7.3
/229/
75
/10/
70
/5/
3.8
/1943/

Krabi (1976)
A military scientist successfully creates robot soldiers in the shape of crabs, which turn out to be deadly warriors, but soon he discovers that his ambitious invention evolves in unexpected ways.


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