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…

When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people present at the motel to remember his experiences in a concentration…

After the flying machines of “How Man Learned to Fly,” this next popular science installment by Jiří Brdečka focuses on the history of submarines and deep sea exploration, denouncing the…

In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home and seldom allows his wife to wear it….

An escaped prisoner is taken in by a friendly family, but he’s left footprints in the snow.

Czechoslovakian cartoon version of Little Red Riding Hood. Here, Red Riding Hood’s family finds a way to take care of the wolf.

A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neighboring king fell in love with her from her description, but much…

A man and a woman from a different planet come to the Earth to get a cure for a disease that is apparently threatening to eradicate their civilisation.

The film captures the new events in the lives of the main characters of the film “The Copper Tower”. After two years spent in prison because of smuggling they return…

The husband and wife Ludva and Hedus Homolkas with their twins Péta and Máta and Ludva’s parents – the granny and grandpa – arrive in the snowy Spindleruv Mlýn for…

A humorous story about people who before doing anything imagine all possible unpleasant consequences of their action and in the end decide that they better do not do anything.

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the…

A visual essay on the forgotten parts of Eastern Europe. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual…

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…

Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing…

Vše začíná jednoho večera v luxusním hotelu Excelsior, kde můžete potkat manžele Matoušovy a Janíkovy, Němce Hanse-Joachima Kirchmayera, číšníka Pepiho, pianistu Krofta, tajemného perského diplomata Mohameda Rasul Zade a samozřejmě…

The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out into the world. During his travels he meets a magical…

In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul…

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…

Comedy with fairy-tale touches, about Kate, who wants to marry, and Mr. Devil, who is not interested in the heart or soul of this passionate and aging lady, but is…

A blue dwarf and a red dwarf get into a vicious argument. Each ultimately calls upon a matching giant to protect them, with unexpected results.

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to…

Three detective stories, three different views of life and death… Collection of three horror short stories.

The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl. Lucy’s fondest wish is to…

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.

A dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in the High Tatras. On the arrival of the wife of one of them…

Jednoho večera je ve své vile na předměstí zavražděna bohatá soukromnice Františka Zuzánková. Už po krátkém čase začne komisař Zdychynec, který spolupracuje na vyšetřování s policejním radou Vacátkem, ze zločinu…

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…

Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a…

The Homolka family celebrates a great occasion: they were finally able to buy a car. They immediately begin to drive for small trips to Hradcany, to the airport, and plan…

Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.