Search results for "Czechoslovakia"
Fantastic Planet

Fantastic Planet

Fantastic Planet
IMDb: 7.7
72 min

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra’s inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in…

The Elementary School

The Elementary School

The Elementary School
IMDb: 7.8
100 min

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…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Diamonds of the Night

Diamonds of the Night

Diamonds of the Night
IMDb: 7.4
67 min

A tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of…

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Genre: Drama
Journey to the Beginning of Time

Journey to the Beginning of Time

Journey to the Beginning of Time
IMDb: 7.2
83 min

Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.

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Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg
IMDb: 6.9
122 min

Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned…

Genre: Drama, History
Invention for Destruction

Invention for Destruction

Invention for Destruction
IMDb: 7.5
83 min

An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
IMDb: 7.2
77 min

A thief awakens Valerie, just 13, taking earrings left to her by her mother. By morning, the earrings have been returned, Valerie's first period has begun, and a troupe and…

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Ikarie XB 1

Ikarie XB 1

Ikarie XB 1
IMDb: 6.9
81 min

A giant spaceship carrying colonists to a new planet runs into unexpected troubles on its journey, ranging from encounters with abandoned alien craft to malfunctioning onboard computers and tensions among…

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Alice (1988)

Alice (1988)

Alice (1988)
IMDb: 7.5
86 min

A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll's novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', mixing one live actor (Alice) with a large variety of stop-motion animated creatures, ranging from the complex…

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast
IMDb: 7.6
91 min

A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Julie is a bankrupt merchant's daughter who as the only one of the three daughters chooses to save…

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Black Peter

Black Peter

Black Peter
IMDb: 7.1
85 min

Petr is 17 years old and starts work as a security worker against shoplifting in a busy self-service shop. His boss gives him pretty basic instructions, and Petr is pretty…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Ferat Vampire

Ferat Vampire

Ferat Vampire
IMDb: 5.8
90 min

A doctor Marek is shocked when his beloved nurse Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor…

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The Ear

The Ear

The Ear
IMDb: 7.8
94 min

Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia…

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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
IMDb: 7.7
83 min

The stories of Baron Münchhausen were enriched by Karel Zeman with a character of a modern astronaut Tommy and compare two different worlds – the world of a rococo cavalier…

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Loves of a Blonde

Loves of a Blonde

Loves of a Blonde
IMDb: 7.6
88 min

A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Miraculous Virgin

Miraculous Virgin

Miraculous Virgin
IMDb: 6.7
97 min

A group of artists meets a beautiful and mysterious woman called Anabella, and all of them experience passion, dreams and get inspired by her.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Daisies

Daisies

Daisies
IMDb: 7.4
74 min

After realizing that all world is spoiled, blond Marie and brunette Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. Their life motto is: Nothing is bad as long as you are…

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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Ninety Degrees in the Shade

Ninety Degrees in the Shade

Ninety Degrees in the Shade
IMDb: 6.8
90 min

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Tank Battalion

The Tank Battalion

The Tank Battalion
IMDb: 6.6
83 min

The lacking attitude of a conscripted university graduate places him at odds with the power and doctrine of his military superiors. His secret relationship with the wife of a superior…

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Genre: Comedy
Case for a Rookie Hangman

Case for a Rookie Hangman

Case for a Rookie Hangman
IMDb: 7.0
107 min

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…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Witchhammer

Witchhammer

Witchhammer
IMDb: 7.8
107 min

The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. She admits to the parish priest Schmidt that she intended to…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
A Christmas Dream

A Christmas Dream

A Christmas Dream
IMDb: 6.3
8 min

Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old…

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Genre: Fantasy
Eden and After

Eden and After

Eden and After
IMDb: 6.5
93 min

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.

Genre: Mystery
Morgiana

Morgiana

Morgiana
IMDb: 7.3
106 min

Klara and Viktoria are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klara. When Klara becomes involved with a man that her sister loves, Viktoria begins to plot…

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Genre: Drama, Horror
Marketa Lazarová

Marketa Lazarová

Marketa Lazarová
IMDb: 8.0
162 min

Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. During one of their "jobs" they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Cremator

The Cremator

The Cremator
IMDb: 8.0
95 min

Czech Karel Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead, and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly…

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Distant Journey

Distant Journey

Distant Journey
IMDb: 7.3
78 min

The terrible effect of the Nazis upon a single Jewish family provides the basis for this drama. The family cannot handle the strain and gradually breaks up. Interspliced within the…

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Genre: Drama
Intimate Lighting

Intimate Lighting

Intimate Lighting
IMDb: 7.3
71 min

One of the most important images of the Czech New Wave 60s, which was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. Feature debut screenwriter and director Ivan…

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Genre: Drama, Music
Joseph Kilian

Joseph Kilian

Joseph Kilian
IMDb: 7.3
38 min

A man borrows a cat and when he goes back to return it, the place where he got it is no longer there. He begins his search.

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Genre: Drama
The Firemen’s Ball

The Firemen’s Ball

The Firemen’s Ball
IMDb: 7.5
73 min

The volunteer fire department in a small town is having a big party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his 86th birthday. The whole town is invited but things…

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Genre: Drama
Closely Watched Trains

Closely Watched Trains

Closely Watched Trains
IMDb: 7.7
92 min

A young man follows his father's footsteps and joins the railway company, where he learns the job and has his first affair. Set in the country, during the German occupation….

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Genre: Drama, War
Lemonade Joe

Lemonade Joe

Lemonade Joe
IMDb: 7.5
84 min

Straight shooting Lemonade Joe cleans up Stetson City, in this musical parody of early Westerns, after shooting the pants off villain Old Pistol. Joe's endorsement of Kolaloka (Crazy Cola) lemonade…

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Genre: Comedy, Western
…And the Fifth Horseman Is Fear

…And the Fifth Horseman Is Fear

…And the Fifth Horseman Is Fear
IMDb: 7.2
100 min

Dr. Braun is forbidden to practice medicine because he's a Jew living in Nazi occupied Czech Republic (then Bohemia and Moravia). He's old, seems resigned about the fate of the…

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Genre: Drama, War
Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
IMDb: 7.2
93 min

Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-aging pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with…

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A Horseshoe for Luck

A Horseshoe for Luck

A Horseshoe for Luck
IMDb: 6.1
4 min

A walking on the street finds a horseshoe, thinks it's a good luck charm. So, he decides to take it with him home and find a suitable place for it.

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Genre: Animation
Vysoké Tatry

Vysoké Tatry

Vysoké Tatry
IMDb: N/A
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Genre: Documentary
Before Tonight Is Over

Before Tonight Is Over

Before Tonight Is Over
IMDb: 7.2
89 min

An exceptional film from Peter Solan places us amid the relationships the interactions playing out between a handful patrons and the employees of a trendy Slovak nightclub. Overt the course…

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Genre: Music
Piloti

Piloti

Piloti
IMDb: 5.1
83 min

Genre: War
Suffering

Suffering

Suffering
IMDb: 6.9
90 min

Adults who have long ago lost their link to nature fail to understand the feelings a growing 12 year old country girl has for a beautiful black stallion.

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Genre: Family, Romance
Tenderness

Tenderness

Tenderness
IMDb: 6.7
110 min

A wonderful dark tale of coming of age in a country in transformation – then Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in 1990s. Against the backdrop of a regime change and general crisis…

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Genre: Drama