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Oskar Reif – Postel AKA The Bed (1998)
Synopsis:‘Forty-year old PE teacher Luboš Urna, is a man you’d be unlikely to notice on the street. He is completely average and unremarkable, with nothing interesting or special about him at first...
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Oldrich Lipský –‘Ctyri vrazdy stací, drahousku’ AKA Four Murders Are Enough,...
‘Ctyri vrazdy stací, drahousku’ (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...
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Oldrich Lipský – Marecku, podejte mi pero! AKA Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Marecku, podejte mi pero! (1976) A factory producing agricultural machines is about to be thoroughly modernized. If he wants to keep his job, master craftsman Kroupa (Jirí Sovák) is going to have to...
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Karel Kachyna – Nadeje AKA The Hope (1964)
Nadeje (1964) Ignác Šavlíř, called Lucin, will try to steal another worker’s pocket from the pocket of a large gravel pit. He is caught, beaten up and thrown into the autumn mud. He is picked up by a...
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Bohdan Sláma – Divoké vcely AKA The Wild Bees (2001)
Divoké vcely (2001) A portrait of a small Moravian village and its quirky inhabitants. Bohdan Slama - (2001) The Wild Bees.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1h 34mn Size: 4.52 GiB Video Codec:...
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Slávek Horák – Domácí péce AKA Home Care (2015)
Home Care (Domácí péče) (2015) Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta lives for her husband Lada, her daughter, and her patients. But then one day things change and Vlasta comes to realize that she might...
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Jana Sevciková – Jakub (1992)
Jakub (1992) After second world war the people from Ruthenia’s Carpathian villages were promised a better life in Bohemia. Once settled down they felt like strangers at the new places, so memories and...
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Zdenek Sirový – Finsky nuz AKA The Finnish Knife (1965)
Finsky nuz (1965) Summary:Director Zdeněk Sirový made his most important contribution to the Czechoslovak New Wave with the film Smuteční slavnost (Funeral Ceremonies, 1969). As a result, one of his...
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Frantisek Vlácil – Pasácek z doliny AKA The Little Shepherd Boy from the...
Pasácek z doliny (1983) It is 1947 and the Beskydy Mountains still display traces of war. A ten-year old boy pastures a herd of cows in a meadow housing a damaged German tank. The little herdsman...
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Václav Vorlícek – Smrt si vybira AKA Death Chooses (1973)
Smrt si vybira (1973) One lesser known Vorliceks movie. Unfortunately NO ENGLISH SUBS yet. Radek Simek, the driver of a postal car, is shot dead on his regular route. The Investigators give up initial...
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Juraj Herz – Holka na zabití AKA A Girl Fit to Be Killed (1976)
Holka na zabití (1976) While driving to Poland, a Czech man and woman have an argument. The woman gets out of the car to relieve herself, and the driver of the car runs over her, killing her....
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Robert Hloz – Bod obnovy AKA Restore Point (2023)
Bod obnovy (2023) Quote:Set in central Europe during 2041, a female detective investigates the case of a murdered couple where a restoration team is able to bring one of them back to life....
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Véra Caïs – Une trop bruyante solitude AKA Too Loud a Solitude (1996)
Une trop bruyante solitude (1996) Quote: This is a live action film adaptation of “Too Loud a Solitude” released in the Czech Republic in 1996, one year before Bohumil Hrabal’s death. And there is a...
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Karel Zeman – Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci AKA A Thousand and One Nights (1974)
Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci (1974) AMG: In this animated feature-length movie, five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor (originally five separate “shorts” created between 1971-1974) get him mixed...
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Jan Danhel & Adam Olha – Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace (2020)
Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace (2020) Jan Švankmajer at 85 years of age is one of the most prominent artists of European cinema. His work has inspired and guided generations of directors, and his...
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Karel Kachyna – Prace AKA Slingboy (1960)
Prace (1960) A touching story of a Czech boy who is liberated from a concentration camp and then picked up by a Czechoslovak Army laundry unit under Soviet command. He becomes the unit’s mascot, and...
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Jan Balej – Mala z rybarny AKA Little From The Fish Shop (2015)
Malá z rybárny (2015) Deep underneath the surface of the sea, accompanied by a fish orchestra, the voice of the ocean is telling a story about Little, the daughter of the Sea King. Forced to abandon...
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Irena Pavlásková – Zemský ráj to napohled AKA An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes...
Zemský ráj to napohled (2009) Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to...
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Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos – Touha zvaná Anada AKA Adrift (1971)
Touha zvaná Anada (1971) A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits...
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Karel Kachyna – Cukrová bouda (1981)
Cukrová bouda (1981) In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young...
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