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1. Mikyr's amazing journey on the internet (2020– )
Comedy
Stars: Martin Mikyska, Filip Zima, Andrej Babis, Jakub Smrsín
Votes: 22
2. Arabela (1980–1981)
30 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Princess Arabela, the daughter of the King of the fairy tale world escapes before the revenge of a cunning and deceitful magician Rumburak and leaves the world of fairy tales. She meets ... See full summary »
Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Stella Zázvorková, Jana Nagyová, Veronika Tyblová
Votes: 1,487
3. Praski student (1990– )
50 min
Stars: Jirí Menzel, Bolek Polívka, Jasmin Geljo, Zdenek Sverák
Votes: 11
4. The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Later Years Vol. 2 (2003 Video)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Compilation of animated and other shorts by Jan Svankmajer, a Czech surrealist filmmaker and artist whose work often inspired filmmakers, including Terry Gilliam and the Brothers Quay.
Directors: James Marsh, Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Monika Belo-Cabanová, Olga Vronská, Aleksandr Letko, Jan Zácek
Votes: 159
5. The Cremator (1969)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová, Milos Vognic
Votes: 10,801
6. Food (1992)
16+ | 17 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Ludvík Sváb, Bedrich Glaser, Jan Kraus, Pavel Marek
Votes: 3,590
7. Princ a chud'as (1971 TV Movie)
Adventure, History
A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Director: Ludvík Ráza | Stars: Roman Skamene, Petr Kostka, Josef Bláha, Ota Sklencka
Votes: 31
8. Happy End (1967)
73 min | Comedy, Crime
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Josef Abrhám, Bohus Záhorský
Votes: 1,418
9. Záhada hlavolamu (1969– )
217 min | Adventure, Family, Mystery
Stars: Jirí Lukes, Tomás Hádl, Martin Kapoun, Roman Skamene
Votes: 132
10. At' zije Republika (1965)
134 min | Drama, War
It is the spring 1945 and the front line is getting closer to the small Moravian village of Nesovice. Twelve-year old Oldrich Vareka, nicknamed Shorty for his tiny stature, observes the ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Frank Argus, Josef Barta, P. Bohdanecky, Eduard Bredun
Votes: 308
11. Vom Webstuhl zur Weltmacht (1983– )
345 min | Drama
Stars: Günther Sauer, Joachim Nottke, Friedrich W. Bauschulte, Ernst Jacobi
Votes: 12
12. Cerní baroni (1992)
99 min | Comedy
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black barons". Although it might seem like a ... See full summary »
Director: Zdenek Sirový | Stars: Pavel Landovský, Bronislav Poloczek, Alois Svehlík, Jirí Schmitzer
Votes: 775
13. How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A turbulent comedy of confusion about the water sprites who go soul hunting in the river Vltava and become ordinary mortals through all kinds of misadventures.
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Jaromír Hanzlík, Libuse Safránková, Frantisek Filipovský, Milos Kopecký
Votes: 1,315
14. Fantaghirò: Cave of the Golden Rose (1991–1996)
Adventure, Fantasy
Fantaghirò is youngest of three princesses born to a warrior king. Although beautiful and intelligent.
Stars: Alessandra Martines, Brigitte Nielsen, Kim Rossi Stuart, Katerina Brozová
Votes: 492
15. Faust (1994)
97 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
An ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonin Zacpal
Votes: 4,299
16. Jak si nepodelat zivot (2019)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A rubenesque school teacher taking burlesque dance classes risks everything when she accepts the chance to preform in a nude cabaret show.
Stars: Eliska Krenková, Ondrej Vetchý, Tereza Brodská, Eva Hacurová
Votes: 62
17. Krajinka (2000)
106 min | Drama
A doctor performs a small miracle with cigar smoke. A soldier performs heroics in his lovemaking. A deaf man awakens to discover a snake has slithered down his throat. A poacher becomes his own victim.
Director: Martin Sulík | Stars: Juraj Paulen, Anton Vaculík, Vilma Cibulková, Csongor Kassai
Votes: 346
18. Uvolnete se, prosím (2004–2010)
40 min | Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Jan Kraus, Petr Bendl, Adela Banásová, Bára Basiková
Votes: 110
19.
Fantaghirò: Cave of the Golden Rose (1991–1996)
Episode:
Fantaghirò
(1991)
200 min | Adventure, Fantasy
During archery in a wood Princess Fantaghiro is discovered by the hostile king's son Romualdo. He is able to take a short look at her before she can escape and immediately falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Alessandra Martines, Mario Adorf, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ángela Molina
Votes: 2,633
20. The Girl on a Broomstick (1972)
76 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Saxana has the enthusiasm, but lacks the right talent to become a witch. So she's kept in for 300 years - nothing unusual for a sorceress' school. Being bored, she skims through the ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Petra Cernocká, Jan Hrusínský, Jan Kraus, Vlastimil Zavrel
Votes: 1,484
21. Ukradená vzducholod (1967)
84 min | Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Five young boys take off in a lighter-than-air machine from the Centenary Exposition in Prague.
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Hanus Bor, Jan Cizek, Jan Malát, Michal Pospísil
Votes: 664
22. Noc nevesty (1967)
90 min | Drama
One day of autumn 1950, during the forced collectivization, the farmers lead their cattle into the common stables of the new cooperative. The cooperative's chairman, Picin, publicly calls ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jana Brejchová, Mnislav Hofman, Gustáv Valach, Josef Kemr
Votes: 162
23. Slamený klobouk (1972)
88 min | Comedy
Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse picks up and eats a straw hat. The owner of the hat is a married woman who, at the time, is in the embrace of a French officer, ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Iva Janzurová, Vladimír Mensík, Stella Zázvorková
Votes: 149
24. Usmevy (1993– )
Documentary, Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Jaromír Hanzlík, Zdenek Sverák, Lubomír Lipský, Josef Vinklár
Votes: 8
25. Ulysses and the Stars (1976)
81 min | Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
It is the year 2000. The parents of twelve-year-old Péta are worried about the boy. He has made a flying machine on the model of a bird, but it crashed when he tested it and he broke his ... See full summary »
Director: Ludvík Ráza | Stars: Jaroslava Obermaierová, Alois Svehlík, Gustav Bubník, Gabriela Hyrmanová
Votes: 60
26. The Land Gone Wild (1997–2012)
Adventure, History
The Land Gone Wild is a television serial composed of forty-five episodes in four series shot in 1997, 2001, 2008 and 2012, based on Jirí Stránský's novels Zdivocelá zeme (The Land Gone ... See full summary »
Stars: Martin Dejdar, Jana Hubinská, Jakub Wehrenberg, Jakub Zdenek
Votes: 96
27. Smích se lepí na paty (1987)
92 min | Comedy
Director: Hynek Bocan | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Josef Kemr, Petr Cepek, Jirina Bohdalová
Votes: 56
28. Nocní jazdci (1981)
93 min | Drama
Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax in the closing shoot-out. Instead of ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Hollý | Stars: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Michal Docolomanský, Sona Valentová, Leopold Haverl
Votes: 71
30. Proc? (1987)
86 min | Drama, Sport
Based on true event, football hooligans who support Sparta, are coming home after the away game and they demolished the train that they are traveling by.
Director: Karel Smyczek | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Martin Sobotka, Pavel Zvaric, Pavlína Mourková
Votes: 345
31. Skrítek (2005)
90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad works as a butcher at a meatpacking ... See full summary »
Director: Tomás Vorel | Stars: Eva Holubová, Bolek Polívka, Anna Marhoulová, Tomás Vorel Jr.
Votes: 631
32. Show Jana Krause (2010– )
Talk-Show
Stars: Jan Kraus, Jakub Prachar, Simona Krainová, Monika Absolonová
Votes: 131
33.
Jak si nepodelat zivot (2019)
Episode:
Az budou krávy lítat
(2019)
TV-MA | 83 min | Comedy, Drama
A chubby school teacher decides to free herself from the fear of not being like everyone else wants her to be. She takes burlesque dance classes and challenges the aesthetic rules imposed by society.
Director: Tereza Kopácová | Stars: Eva Hacurová, Sabina Remundová, Filip Král, Stanislav Majer
Votes: 104
34. How About a Plate of Spinach? (1977)
86 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Two swindlers get to prison for alcohol theft. After an exit from prison they are employed for theft of the device for regeneration of old cows. The owner of salon wants to use devices for rejuvenation. But something went not so.
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Jirí Sovák, Iva Janzurová, Michal Kocourek
Votes: 775
35. Jak se budí princezny (1978)
83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The king Dalimil and the queen Eliska waited to see a longed-for offspring - a daughter Ruzenka. But Eliska's envious and bad sister Melánie curses her. When Ruzenka becomes 17 years old ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Milena Dvorská, Frantisek Filipovský
Votes: 667
36. Copak je to za vojáka... (1988)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Petr Tucek | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Karel Roden, Pavel Hejlík, Tomás Valík
Votes: 374
37. Krakonos a lyzníci (1981)
72 min | Comedy, Family
Matej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a glass works where the oldest brother Francek works. They hide into a tub not to be seen ... See full summary »
Director: Vera Plívová-Simková | Stars: Milan Padalík, Jan Kreidl, Viktor Král, Vanda Krnanská
Votes: 210
38. Dopisy v krajkách (2003 TV Short)
58 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Jaroslav Pozzi | Stars: Frantisek Nemec, Nada Konvalinková, Lenka Kubálková, Otakar Brousek
Votes: 29
39. Pan Tau - Der Film (1988)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The last meeting with the magical Pan Tau in a story that is not only for children. Its hero is the actor Rudolf Karásek, who fifteen years ago was a famous representative of the children's... See full summary »
Director: Jindrich Polák | Stars: Otto Simánek, Dana Vávrová, Ute Christensen, Viktor Preiss
Votes: 188
40. 13. komnata (2006– )
Documentary, Biography
Stars: Zuzana Buresová, Sárka Volemanová, Václav Zmolík, Martina Vrbová
Votes: 20
41. Hanele (1999)
92 min | Drama, Romance
A drama focusing on the age-old conflict between faith, family and love in which every is hard. The lyric unfolds in Sub-Carpathian Ukraine in the 1930s. An enclave of Jews living there ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Lada Jelínková, Miro Noga, Jirí Ornest, Tána Fischerová
Votes: 165
42. Káta a krokodýl (1966)
66 min | Comedy, Family
It is the summer holiday and little Mísa Horák has taken a few animals from the school's so-called "Corner of Living Nature" home to care for. But when he brings home two Angora rabbits, a ... See full summary »
Director: Vera Plívová-Simková | Stars: Ywetta Hollauerová, Ondrej Jandera, Minka Malá, Antonín Nedvídek
Votes: 42
43. Nase bláznivá rodina (1968)
74 min | Comedy, Family
Everybody wears glasses in the family of twelve-year old Jana, and everybody is also quite mad. Jana often has bad luck - one time she breaks her arm, another time her leg or something else... See full summary »
Director: Ján Valásek | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Jirina Jirásková, Bohumila Houdková, Jarmila Srbová
Votes: 31
44. Bezesné noci (2003)
118 min | Documentary
Documentary on Czech TV crisis, emphasizing 13 days when the program director aired her news. It focuses on individual actors, offering insight into human behavior under pressure, making it a broader study of crisis responses.
Directors: David Calek, Radim Spacek | Stars: Jana Bobosíková, David Calek, Jirí Hodac, Petr Jarchovský
Votes: 13
45. Der Schneider von Ulm (1978)
120 min | Drama, History
Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger dreams of flying. By chance he gets to know the airship designer Jakob Degen and sees his flying objects in action.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Tilo Prückner, Vadim Glowna, Hannelore Elsner, Harald Kuhlmann
Votes: 102
46. Mág (1988)
87 min | Drama
A poet find inspiration in nature and solitude.
Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Jirí Schwarz, Veronika Zilková, Marta Vancurová, Petr Cepek
Votes: 69
47. Lisáci-Mysáci a Sibenicák (1970)
74 min | Family
Until recently, the children from a village at the foot of the Gallows hill have had a tacit leader in Jozka (Zdenek Tuma) nicknamed the Gingerboy, the gravedigger's son. But now a new boy ... See full summary »
Director: Vera Plívová-Simková | Stars: Zdenek Tuma, Jan Kraus, Blazena Hendrychová, Milan Bakes
Votes: 49
48. Láska (1973)
88 min | Romance
Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Oldrich Kaiser, Milena Dvorská, Frantisek Velecký
Votes: 69
49. Atentát (2015–2016)
Crime
Stars: Andrea Opavská, Marek Nemec, Lukás Juza, Jan Dolanský
Votes: 15
50. Královský slib (2001)
90 min | Family, Romance
Krystof Hanzlík's realistic fairy tale, a story of an agreement made by two rulers as they fought on the battlefield, according to which their neighboring countries are to be joined through... See full summary »
Director: Krystof Hanzlík | Stars: Maros Kramár, Klára Issová, Lucie Vondrácková, David Kraus
Votes: 98