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Jirí Menzel – Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina aka Life...
The story of a soldier looking after a broken plane in a remote Soviet village. Meanwhile, the German-Soviet war breaks out, but he carries on guarding it, protecting it even against the NKVD and Red...
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Jirí Menzel – Zlocin v santanu aka Crime in a Music Hall [+Extras] (1968)
Description: Black detective comedy Crime in the Cabaret is set in a cabaret Tartaros, where one evening lost a pearl necklace singer Regina Clara gave her devoted admirer of the minister of justice,...
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Jirí Menzel – Na samote u lesa AKA Seclusion Near a Forest (1976)
Synopsis: Fed up with the daily hassle in the urban Prague, Oldrich Lavička, his wife and their children Zuzana and Petr decide to buy a summerhouse in a rural place, for the weekends. They reach an...
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Jirí Menzel – Postriziny AKA Cutting It Short (1981)
Quote: Short Cut is a comedy revealed more in the acting and witty dialogue than in the simple premise of the story itself: how the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal was born. Actually, the story is, in...
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Vera Chytilová – Vyhnání z ráje aka Expulsion From Paradise (2001)
Description: Rostislav sitting on the beach with friend Peter philosophize about who is he – a creation of God or the Devil. Their conversation is interrupted by a naked man from a nearby nudist beach...
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Milos Forman – Horí, má panenko AKA The Firemen’s Ball [+Extras] (1967)
Plot Synopsis from criterionco.com A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman’s first color film The Firemen’s Ball (Horí, má panenko) is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political...
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Jan Svankmajer – Spiklenci slasti AKA Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Quote: Any film that cites Sigmund Freud, Max Ernst, Luis Bunuel, and the Marquis de Sade as cardinal influences clearly is not standard mall movie fare. In Conspirators of Pleasure, Jan Svankmajer...
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Vera Chytilova – Kopytem sem, kopytem tam AKA A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1988)
A cautionary tale about the dangers of unprotected promiscuity among heterosexuals, this story chronicles the exploits of three good friends. Pepe is the playboy of the bunch: despite having a lovely...
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Jan Sverák – Akumulator 1 (1994)
Synopsis: Who knows what evil lurks behind your television screen? Czech writer/director Jan Sverak offers a possibility in this satirical tale of televisions that suck the life-force from every...
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Evald Schorm – Návrat ztraceného syna AKA The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)
SynopsisEvald Schorm was one of the most politically outspoken of the Czech New Wave filmmakers. This raw psychological drama about an engineer unable to adjust to the world around him following his...
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Jan Svankmajer – Kostnice AKA Ossuary (1970)
A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death). 119MB | 10mn 6s | 656×512 | mkv...
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Jan Svankmajer – Tichý týden v dome AKA A Quiet Week In the House (1969)
A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision… 233MB |...
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Jan Svankmajer – Zahrada AKA The Garden (1968)
Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary’s garden fence is entirely...
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Jan Svankmajer – Historia Naturae, Suita AKA Historia Nature Suite (1967)
A eight-part animatied portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music – the various parts are: Aquatilia (foxtrot), Hexapoda (bolero), Pisces (blues), Reptilia (tarantella),...
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Juraj Jakubisko – Kristove roky AKA The Crucial Years (1967)
Quote:Jakubiskos debut, by many considered his best movie. The title can be translated as “The Crucial Years”, but literally it is “The Christ Years”, based on the idiomatic notion that a man should...
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Jan Spata – Respice finem (1967)
Almost half-a-million widows older than 65 years lived in Czechoslovakia in late ’60. Many of them spend the last years of their lives in the countryside. Their men died, children moved on, and they...
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Jan Nemec – O slavnosti a hostech AKA The Party and the Guests (1966)
Distinguished as being ‘banned forever’ in its native Czechoslovakia, Nemec’s film is a masterpiece of barbed, darkly sinister wit. As a biting satire of governmental and institutional power and with...
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Vera Chytilova – Hra o jablko aka The Apple Game (1976)
Since he works many hours in the maternity ward of a Czech hospital, the comic couplings of a young doctor take place in whatever out-of-the way spots he can find. Sometimes he has a few free hours,...
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Martin Fric – Capkovy povidky AKA Capek’s Tales (1947)
Martin Fric composed several Karel Capek’s Tales in the form of story telling of train passengers. They include three tales from the book “Tales from One Pocket”: “Propuštěný” (Released), “Poslední...
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Jan Nemec – Oratorio for Prague [+Extra] (1968)
One of the most powerful documentaries ever made, Oratorio for Prague contains the only footage from the Soviet-led invasion of Prague in 1968. Czech New Wave filmmaker Jan Nĕmec (A Report on the...
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