Movies

Josef Lachman, once a security officer, serves twelve years for aiding an SS fugitive’s escape. Upon release, he works as a driver on a dam...

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers...

Five young people take off in a lighter-than-air machine at the Prague Centennial Exhibition. In an Art Nouveau style, the film consists of live...

A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of...

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the...

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.

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via...

Sanin, an aging Russian nobleman, recalls his unfulfilled love for a simple girl with whom he fell in love during his youthful travels, but left her...

Several bittersweet stories set in a Prague apartment building.

Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm...

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...

The fates of the women are repeated: the 16-year-old daughter of a 32-year-old mother is also pregnant. Like her mother, the child remains unmarried...

When a comet passes the Earth at close range, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along are a bunch of people, among them...

A poetic story about a man who returns to his mother's home village at Christmas. Stirred by his memories and his reunion with his mother, he tries...

American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in...

At the end of the 1950s, some filmmakers attempted to escape the ideological dictates by turning to psychological drama. We watch as an aging,...

In 363, somewhere in Mesopotamia, on a campaign against the Persians, the emperor Julian, who had succeeded Constantine after his victory over Gaul,...

At the funeral of his schoolmate, the nearly-fifty-year old architect Jirí Mánek (Václav Voska) meets his former close...