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- An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.
- Former cop Filip Marold (Jan Dolanský) doesn't want to be reminded of some things from his past. But others remind him... He works as a private detective, sleeps with his secretary and spies on people for money. All up to the moment when he meets seductive Raluca (Malvína Pachlová) and his life turns upside down. Is it just a coincidence? Fate? Or has someone set a trap? Even in his wildest dreams he wouldn't imagine the things that were about to happen. Things that involve sex, murder, the big reveal and a harsh reminder of that damn past...
- Dramatizes the life of Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa, focusing on her rise to power, political reforms, and personal challenges in 18th-century Europe.
- A serial killer sets on a killing spree. Mercilessly and cruelly he ends the lives of those who are bound by guilt and are responsible for the death of his loved ones.
- It should have been the best day of her life, but then a strange guest with a stranger claim entered the marriage merriment. About the shadows which catch up with each of us.
- Recent Czech history as seen through the story of one of their basketball teams.
- "Ulice" is a long-standing Czech television series. The plot of the series revolves around a fictional street on the outskirts of Prague and the families that live there.
- A story of a family living in Prague, Czechoslovakia in the period between World Wars,in Czech better known as "The First Republic". A lost son returns from the war to investigate the events that led to his abrupt departure 8 years ago.
- Detective Kunes has a problem once again: he's lambasted the boyfriend of his ex-wife, and is threatened with dismissal from the police service. His high-ranking (female) boss has a solution for him: "removing" him on an internships in a back-of-beyond borderland region. But there's a fly in the ointment. His real mission is to unravel the two-year old case of the murder of policewoman Wágnerová, the investigation of which has reached an impasse. But the crime rate in the borderlands is one of the highest in the whole country - involving smuggling, drug production, poaching, prostitution and murders. Kunes has to deal with one difficult case after another, and it takes quite some time before he can start doing what he's sent to do, and then he does it in fact by coincidence.
- Standa Pekárek finishes compulsory military service and becomes a chauffeur at communist Czech TV in 1971 dreaming of his own Volga (Volha). Willing to do anything to fulfill his dream he agrees to be a spy under code-name Volha.
- In love with a girl that smells of oranges while in a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek's world is a story about the joy and pain of growing up in the isolated yet beautiful Lusatian Mountains. Here, horses are not expensive specimens of racing stables but beings you should care for and love. Not even that is enough in life though, as Darek finds out nearing the Summer's end, closing his childhood definitely. However, just like any ending, this is a start of something new. This is an adaptation of the book, "The Orange Days," which has won literary prizes in Europe and been published in five languages.
- Young and famous for his modern investigative methods detective Janos Marton (Jan Kolenik) from Pest comes to Betliar castle to solve the mysterious, brutal murder of a maid. At Gemer, he is greeted by the local guard Vilem Cerny (Stanislav Majer), who does not like the presence of an overly confident investigator from Pest in his district and the need to cooperate with him at all... and it seems that Marton's presence does not suit the local residents either, who are distrustful of technical innovations and prefer to believe in magic and superstition instead of science. However, it turns out that the murder of the maid is far from as simple as the investigators would like; and even that it is not the only strange death of a young woman in this area... So Marton and Cerny are faced with a difficult challenge - to overcome their mutual dislike and search together for the perverted perpetrator, who, according to the villagers, is a supernatural "Demon"... and according to Marton's theory, the first serial killer in the history of Kingdom of Hungary.
- A compromising record can change history. Will you sacrifice your family for your country?
- In this modern crime series inspired by the Nordic noir dramas, a body is found in the Moravian woods: that of a famous regional politician who was killed in the style of medieval torture practices and carefully arranged to create a weird scene. A police chase of the sadistic perpetrator is launched; the killer complicates the investigation team's progress by committing a series of murders that shocks the inhabitants of the whole region and the investigators themselves by their cruel rituality. Efforts to find the link between them and the current political activities bring no result, as the case's roots are in the distant past.
- A cycle of bitter comedies, presenting love in all its forms. The episodes tell stories of seduction, jealousy, alienation, crime, obsession, fear, routine, desire, infidelity, passion, revenge ...
- This loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness follows Robert Klein (Stanislav Majer) as he sets out to find his brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Klein finds himself on a journey where nothing is familiar or certain, a journey during which he is forced to reassess his relationship to his culture, to himself, and to his brother, whom he thought he knew so well... David Jarab's latest film is a highly original exploration of the conflict of cultures that we are permanently forced to reckon with, about the patriarchal superiority of the "white man," and about the right to plunder natural resources that are slowly but surely running out.
- A criminal series set in Czech Republic, where a group of top class detectives are solving cases based on a true stories.
- A film based on a book by Jaroslav Kmenta tells the story of a mafioso who got rich by tax fraud of billions of crowns in transactions with petroleum products and who later tried to gain control of the state-owned petroleum concern. The main character is the gangster Radim Kraviec (Hynek Cermák). He was always capable of violence, but when his father is abducted and killed by a competing mafia, he is changed into a murdering monster.
- Mrs. Zahrádková has a plan to convince the other co-owners of the flats to finally save the house in which they live together and which is in emergency condition.
- A three-part crime miniseries from the new cycle Detectives from the Holy Trinity, directed by one of the best present-day Czech film directors Jan Hrebejk. Containing retro-elements and framed by an authentic and realistic description of the crime investigators' work, it seeks to meet the criteria of the crime genre inspired by the British literary and film traditions. The chief characters are Major Výrová, lieutenant Mráz and their controversial boss - colonel Vitous. Together they are investigating a murder involving the exorcising ritual.
- The screenplay (Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder inspired a theatre production by Dusan David Parízek. The screenplay and the production in turn inspired the film ODPAD MESTO SMRT (Waste, City, and Death) by Jan Hrebejk. Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete breakdown. One day Romi is addressed by a property speculator referring to himself as a "wealthy Jew" (Martin Finger). He does not demand any sexual services of her. He satisfies himself with Romi telling him stories, for which he lavishly rewards her. However, no one shares the sudden happiness with Romi. Her work-mates and current clients turn their backs on her, as does Franz, with whom Romi is in love. The whole story takes place in the setting of a dilapidated city, during the clean-up of which politicians openly split their profit with speculators and lobbyists, all under protection from the police.
- Motto: "Everybody has a reason sometimes not to tell the truth". Each of the protagonists of the thirteen episodes of the Innocent Lies series has personal reasons not to tell the truth. And each time we understand them, and what's more - we believe them. Because it's us who's in their shoes. But supposing a small, intimate and seemingly innocent lie swells up, assumes unforeseeable dimensions, and seizes the opportunity for turning our life inside out? Though telling the personal stories of individuals, the episodes concern topical social phenomena, such as new family patterns, the power of the media, economic crisis or false accusation of sexual abuse.
- This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of European Jews.
- Petronel, an angel, is still working at the Heaven's gates but is confident that he deserves a better function. His everlasting tempter Uriah, a devil, takes up tempting him. All one has to do to know all that God knows is pick an apple from the tree of knowledge. And then, the route to the well-deserved acknowledgment is free. Petronel and Uriah than proceed to argue about the apple, ant the results are catastrophic. The precious fruit falls all the way down to the Earth. The confused angel and his friend, the devil-tempter, have to quickly enter the human world, find the apple of Knowledge and bring it back. The night before Saint Nicolase's day they get tangled up in a peculiar whirl. They meet little Anezka and her beautiful mother, a crew of deceitful carolers, the greedy Kostál and a likable Sausage-seller. Before they manage to find the apple and bring it back where it belongs, they first have to endure a great adventure and get through quite a few dangerous setups.