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92
8.7
/11475/
81
/278/
82
/215/
4.5
/16810/
100
/37/
97
/117/
99
/4/
cc age 15+

Shoah (1985)
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
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Amazon Prime Video
87
8.5
/1002199/
84
/15880/
84
/9885/
4.4
/1140595/
95
/186/
96
/10820/
85
/40/
cc age 15+

The Pianist (2002)
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.6
/14877/
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
79
7.5
/38897/
78
/2441/
77
/902/
3.8
/97297/
91
/150/
98
/224/
69
/30/
cc age 11+

One Life (2023)
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
poster
73
7.7
/3458/
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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81
72
7.8
/5270/
73
/49/
69
/78/
3.8
/2470/
100
/9/
91
/41/
85
/7/

The Search (1948)
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
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Kanopy
67
7.2
/58592/
74
/4074/
71
/1116/
3.6
/33616/
67
/105/
71
/257/
59
/29/
cc age 17+

Anthropoid (2016)
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
poster
67
7.2
/6329/
72
/124/
68
/90/
3.6
/1269/
62
/58/
84
/138/
56
/23/

Dark Blue World (2001)
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.
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77
66
7.8
/2610/
80
/251/
73
/57/
3.9
/10245/

Waves (2024)
At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
66
7.4
/7281/
72
/134/
68
/138/
3.7
/6765/
87
/15/
68
/47/

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
poster
77
66
7.6
/5562/
72
/77/
71
/55/
3.7
/1286/
90
/62/
90
/94/
69
/23/

Divided We Fall (2000)
In 1943, a childless couple, the Čížeks, decide to hide a Jewish refugee, David Wiener, the son of Čížek's former employer, in the secret pantry of their apartment. Čížek is aware of the danger into which he has brought his household and his neighbours, but he takes helping his fellow man in need for granted. But at the same time, as a largely unheroic hero, he is dying of fear. His personal situation is greatly complicated by the approaching end of the war, when he faces danger from both the Germans and his "honest" fellow Czechs...
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63
62
6.4
/19702/
70
/1826/
65
/808/
3.2
/7948/
67
/9/
48
/43/

The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
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74
61
7.5
/3884/
73
/68/
69
/52/
3.7
/957/
74
/50/
91
/123/
66
/20/

Zelary (2003)
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
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Kanopy
67
56
6.8
/3628/
71
/244/
67
/138/
3.3
/3819/
87
/38/
47
/1/
66
/7/

Charlatan (2020)
Born in the early 20th century, herbalist Jan Mikolasek became rich and famous after curing countless diseases with unorthodox means. A true emblem of Czechoslovakia before World War II, the healer became even more appreciated during the Nazi occupation and the communist regime. Each regime appreciates his skill and protects him. But how much will it cost him to maintain his status in a new political change?
poster
Hulu
54
5.9
/14630/
64
/1381/
68
/518/
2.6
/8751/
39
/33/
72
/69/
46
/13/
cc age 16+

Medieval (2022)
The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
54
7.7
/3314/
76
/80/
75
/68/
3.9
/7231/
82
/13/

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.
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70
42
7.5
/1385/
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).
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71
40
7.0
/2571/
73
/46/
69
/47/
3.4
/648/
77
/20/

Operation: Daybreak (1975)
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
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64
39
6.2
/993/
67
/18/
57
/7/
3.1
/7813/
71
/24/
69
/5/

Franz (2025)
Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Franz Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna.
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Amazon Prime Video
76
34
8.1
/668/
90
/24/
87
/9/
64
/22/
85
/16/
52
/9/

Nicky's Family (2011)
Nicky's Family is a gripping documentary from the International Emmy Award winning producers Patrik Pass and Matej Minac about a rescue operation of the “British Schindler” - Sir Nicholas Winton who will celebrate this year 103rd birthday. His story has no parallel in modern history. Dramatic reenactments, some of the archive footage never seen before, rescued "children" together with Mr. Winton himself recount this unique story which even after 70 years continues to inspire people, especially children, to make this world a better place. World personalities His Holiness Dalai Lama and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel also took part. ( - from the film's press kit)
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65
31
6.7
/962/
69
/114/
54
/37/
3.5
/759/

Barefoot (2017)
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city boy was used to.
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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.
poster
63
27
7.1
/924/
70
/23/
55
/14/
3.4
/226/
63
/8/
68
/13/
49
/7/

The Protector (2009)
A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia calls for more and more collaboration, his relationship with his wife spirals downward.
poster
67
26
6.7
/621/
61
/100/
74
/12/
3.4
/1277/

Brothers (2023)
Based on the true story of brothers Josef and Ctirad Mašín who, in 1953, tried to escape communist Czechoslovakia to join the US army in West Berlin.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
26
7.2
/802/
73
/71/
62
/19/
3.4
/882/

Zátopek (2021)
Autumn 1968, the Australian running record holder Ron Clarke is coming to Prague, hoping that his old friend and role model, Emil Zátopek, the most famous Czech athlete of all time, will help him overcome the biggest crisis of his career.
poster
80
22
8.3
/723/
83
/24/
80
/19/
3.7
/469/

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
74
19
7.5
/674/
75
/24/
73
/16/
3.6
/504/

Forbidden Dreams (1987)
Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum cleaner salesman. There he embarks on a series of adulterous adventures, has encounters with boxing pros and famous portrait artists, and schemes to purchase the perfect pond to fulfill his passion for fishing. When the Nazis gain control, the comedy turns sour - he loses his lake, his job, and finally, his family.
poster
58
19
6.5
/962/
54
/5/
52
/11/
3.3
/581/
50
/27/

Hitler's Madman (1943)
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
poster
60
18
6.3
/551/
64
/47/
52
/20/
3.1
/559/

Havel (2020)
The life career of Václav Havel (1936-2011), a persecuted playwright and human rights defender in the Czech Republic subjected to the implacable power of the Soviet Union who became president of the country in the late 1980s.
poster
73
17
7.5
/491/
62
/14/
60
/21/
3.6
/438/
100
/5/

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960)
Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the two. He is her only link to the outside world. Then the two are discovered by Pavel's mother, who forces the residents of the apartment building to decide whether Hana can remain.
poster
64
17
6.7
/322/
63
/13/
57
/28/
3.5
/435/

Springman and the SS (1946)
The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the Prague-occupying SS troops in World War II.
poster
67
14
6.7
/661/
70
/30/
62
/14/
3.5
/271/

Lost in Munich (2015)
Sir "P" a 90 year old gray parrot, formerly living with Edouard Daladier, the French prime minister responsible for signing the Munich Treaty, comes to Prague to give his "account" of the past events. But can he do it, being just a bird? In a series of weird events sir is kidnapped by a Czech journalist undergoing his midlife crisis. The guy has him publicly say some really controversial statements, causing a diplomatic scandal. At the end of the day it is the French who decide to assassinate their own national hero....And that's only the half of the story.
poster
63
10
5.9
/253/
63
/17/
59
/10/
3.6
/341/

Occupation (2021)
After the premiere, the theatre group gathers in a bar to celebrate. However, the cheerful gathering is interrupted by a drunken Soviet officer. He insists on selling a can of petrol. However, when he senses the awkwardness, the hidden hatred, the cowardice, the timidity of the people there, he begins to enjoy the situation with his intrusiveness. When he takes his pistol out of its holster, things start to get crazy. The people in the bar suddenly become “freedom fighters” against the Russian occupation.
poster
73
8
7.7
/115/
83
/6/
60
/2/
3.7
/601/

Czechoslovak Architecture 58–89 (2024)
Vladimir 518, uncompromising rapper, artist, stage designer and activist, is a rare phenomenon, who not only writes books, but publishes them as well. Today also a respected authority primarily on pre-1989 architecture, he has written not only a major publication on the subject, but also the story for two audiovisual works treating the same theme, which were shot by Jan Zajíček, renowned director of music videos. In addition to the recent TV series we have the eagerly anticipated feature-length film which, through its fascinating and impressive exploration of Czech and Slovak architecture of the latter half of the 20th century, offers exclusive insight into extraordinary buildings and unique individuals living below the Tatra Mountains. Karel Och (kviff.com)
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?
7.2
/10/
10
/2/

Kráska a netvor 1950 (2011)
1950. While some people enthusiastically build a totalitarian state, others flee from it in terror. And some disappear. Just like Jarmila, the sister of doctor Marie, disappeared. Although a letter arrived from her in West Germany, it was addressed to Maruška, a name Jarmila never called her sister. At first, there is only an almost impossible-to-prove suspicion, then the intuition of a loving sister, and so Marie sets out to follow in her footsteps.
poster
?
7.5
/29/

P.F. 77 (2003)
The story of a teacher, a famous actress, and her students set against the backdrop of the harsh normalization period, a time when, after the Soviet occupation, most people tried to survive in the gray zone, and only a handful of brave souls were willing to risk their positions in the fight against the regime.
poster
?
7.7
/18/

Bata-ville: We Are Not Afraid of the Future (2005)
Bata-ville is a bittersweet record of a coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire in Zlín in the Czech Republic. Against the backdrop of regeneration in their local communities, former employees of the now-closed UK shoe factories in East Tilbury (Essex) and Maryport (Cumbria) are led on a journey that begins as a free holiday but soon becomes an opportunity for a collective imagining of what entrepreneur Tomas Bata's maxim "We are not afraid of the future" means for them in 21st century Britain.
poster
62
?
6.1
/33/
72
/12/
54
/5/

Smetana (2024)
Life of Czech composer Smetana, his search for love and artistic inspiration despite hearing loss, and quest for his muse Eliska. Navigating personal and professional challenges and the founding of the National Theatre in Prague.
poster
62
?
5.8
/313/
47
/9/
74
/5/
3.3
/392/
66

The Hungarian Dressmaker (2024)
Ema & Death’s-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one’s own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hungarian border. Šimon Holan, the boy in hiding, has a special ability to survive thanks to dreaming and a child’s fantasy.
poster
?
7.3
/52/
61
/9/
75
/2/

The End of the World (2024)
An original story told by Uncle Igor, a son of Russian aristocrats, and his nine year old grandson Tonda. A powerful story of complicated times around 1968, a story full of contrasts: Whether it is the relation between what Grandpa's plentiful life entails and Tonda's imminent children's presence, or between poetry and fine humor and dramatic situations of military occupation. Or generally between everyday worries of a person and the pressure of great history. On grandpa's life story, mapping a big part of the 20th century traumas, one can see how much an individual's fate depends on the movement and changes of history. And how much one can defy it and maintain inner firmness and integrity. Or perhaps just dear life.
poster
?
8.2
/10/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Das Attentat - Heydrich in Prag (1967)
Based on historical events, the film tells the story of Operation Anthropoid which led to the assassination of the German SS leader Heydrich in Prague by Czech rebels led by Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
?
4.8
/204/
65
/10/
55
/4/
100
/5/

Bardejov (2024)
The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was nine years old when he and his family in Bardejov, Slovakia were sent to a concentration camp.
poster
?
7.1
/15/
20
/1/

A Trial in Prague (2001)
This documentary tells the story of the Slánský trial, an infamous political show trial that took place in communist Czechoslovakia in 1952.
poster
61
?
6.3
/198/
68
/35/
46
/3/
3.4
/310/

Réveillon (2023)
What was supposed to be a joyful celebration over the dissolution of Czechoslovakia turns chaotic when the Varchal family discovers that their father betrayed both country and family by working for the secret police. The family members turn against each other.
poster
?
5.6
/38/
10
/1/

The Gardener of God (2011)
N/A
poster
65
?
6.8
/214/
55
/2/
70
/5/

The Optimist (2023)
Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
?
5.8
/101/
68
/24/

Terezín (2023)
The story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czech violinist, who fall in love with each other during the World War II, in Prague.
poster
66
?
7.0
/142/
65
/17/
64
/7/

The Man Who Stood In the Way (2023)
A drama that tells the story of the physician and politician MUDr. František Kriegel, the hero of the Prague Spring of 1968, who was arrested and kidnapped to Moscow on the night of August 21st together with five leaders of the party and the state (Dubček, Černík, Smrkovský, Špaček and Šimon). He was the only Czechoslovak politician who managed to stand up to Brezhnev in Moscow captivity, even under the threat of liquidation, and not to sign the Moscow Protovol which meant agreeing to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.


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