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- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsRudolf HrusínskýPetr CepekJosef SomrThree veterans are given magic artifacts by elves that can magically create gold, servants and any other object. They encounter greedy characters and one of them falls in love with a princess.
- DirectorDavid OndricekStarsIvan TrojanSebastian KochSona NorisováIn the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
- StarsVojtech KotekTatiana PauhofováMartin PechlátIn the time of absolute monarchies, political intrigue, and diplomacy through marriage, love is not a word associated with marriage. And a ruling Empress? Not even imaginable. But a bright little girl is growing up at the Hofburg palace: Not only does beautiful Maria Theresa study books she isn't supposed to read; she also has a crush on dashing Francis Stephen of Lorraine, whom her father, Charles VI, eventually allows her to marry. When Charles VI dies, an edict paves his daughter's way to the throne. The new Habsburg ruler is only 23 years old, and expecting her fourth child. Maria Theresa eagerly responds to her realm's need for reform and handles the state of affairs while her husband spends much of his time with their children. But Austria seems to be on the verge of collapse and European rulers soon attack the Habsburg Empire. It takes a diplomatic masterpiece for Maria Theresa to win allies and--eventually--revitalize an empire that would influence the rest of Europe for almost 150 years.
- DirectorMilan CieslarStarsAnna PolívkováAnita KrausováKaterina KlausováThree unmarried sisters, Katka, Eliska and Magda, go for an extended wellness weekend to a luxury hotel in Spindleruv Mlyn. Katka, the oldest, hates her job, where she spends so much time that she has no chance to make friends. Magda is a tattooed free-thinker and the youngest, Eliska, who thought up the whole trip, is quite a successful model. The ladies plan to ski and pick up some rich men. However, there was a mistake in the booking system and all three end up in alternative accommodation, which is far from luxurious.
- DirectorMartin KoppStarsKrystof HádekTereza RambaLukás LangmajerHonza and Klára became owners of a winery and parents. Alongside their marriage, they deal with theft in the vineyards. In addition, the vintage season is coming. And finally, after many years, Honza reunites with his friend Jirka.
- DirectorVlad LanneStarsJan Antonín DuchoslavKrystof HádekJirí KornOnce again, we will follow the adventures of two friends, Honza and Jirka. One of them embarks on the ultimate art of straw wine. Not only does he fail, but after the unexpected arrival of his buddy Jirka, his life is turned upside down.
- DirectorTomás BarinaStarsKrystof HádekLukás LangmajerLubomír LipskýFilm about two friends who find out that you do not have to fly to sea to spend fantastic holidays.
- DirectorMilan CieslarStarsOndrej VetchýSimona StasováBarbora PolákováPedantic policeman Frantisek (Ondrej Vetchý) wants to bring up his three daughters with a firm hand. He would like to see the girls coupled with capable and successful men, but instead they have the talent to find the opposite. One of them is constantly trying to get pregnant, second one is only dating exotic fools and the third one is expecting a baby without knowing who is the father. Frantisek and his wife (Simona Stasová) always spend their vacation at the local lake, although the wife is dreaming of the seaside. One day she meets a bohemian writer with slightly suicidal tendencies (Miroslav Táborský) and an attractive colleague with Spanish roots (Kristína Peláková) walks into Frantisek's office and things get moving.
- DirectorVojtech KotekStarsOndrej PavelkaMarek TaclíkJakub PracharWhat happens in the mountains, stay in the mountains. Giant Mountains are truly the spice of local highlanders who live here, whether any season. Skier with one leg, the legendary womanizer adorned with infertility, the bartender with a penchant for divination... And Pavka (Ondrej Pavelka), the oldest living member of a traditional cross-country Bulán family.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOldrich NovýNatasa GollováRaoul SchránilAlois Novák (Oldrich Nový), a minor clerk in a travel agency and the husband of a dowdy housewife Marenka (Natasa Gollová), lives a run-of-the-mill, dull life. In his soul, however, there resides an inextinguishable desire for adventure. And so once a month he poses as a playboy. As the mysterious and wealthy Mr. Kristian he goes to the exclusive Orient Bar where he does not skimp on generous tips and where he platonic-ally seduces beautiful and elegant women. In the salon he speaks of love and the magnificence of exotic lands, which he has supposedly come to know on his wanderings abroad. In reality he has read all of this in the travel agency's brochures.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsJosef KemrZdenek SverákDaniela KolárováThe Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
- DirectorMarie PolednákováStarsJúlius SatinskýJana SulcováVáclav PostráneckýThree middle-aged men go for a vacation with their children and learn to cope with their needs without their wives. Quickly, they plan to exhaust the kids to have some time off, but nothing really works out as planned.
- DirectorMartin HorskýStarsZlata AdamovskáTereza KostkováVeronika Khek KubarováWomen on the Run. Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and spirited mother of three daughters doesn't think that doing so will be a problem. She and her daughters will split up the route into four parts, and they'll overcome the over 42-kilometer-long challenge as a family relay team. Of course, the fact that neither of them has ever ran even a meter poses no problem.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsJirí SovákVáclav LohniskýIva JanzurováOlder group of workers are forced to attend the high school and finish it.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsIvan BarnevOldrich KaiserJulia JentschA look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.
- DirectorRadek BajgarStarsJirí BartoskaEliska BalzerováTatiana DykováThe last drop for Jan's resolution is the voluntary death of his father-in-law, whose strength and patience ran dry. Grandma made decisions about Grandpa's life, old age as well as the funeral. Jan is sure that he and his wife Olga are on the same route. He recalls his past life when he used to have his own will and dreams and he wants to live again with dignity and freedom. He longs to control his own life again. And his solution is escape from the present life. In this movie we watch, in parallel ,the fates of Jan's married daughters Olinka and Alenka and his sons-in-law Erik and Pepík.
- DirectorDavid OndricekStarsJirí MachácekIvan TrojanMarek TaclíkFate has been harsh to Standa but he took all the hard knocks without much fuzz. Being released from a prison, he believes everything would change for the better now. His former boss Zdenek owes him a considerable sum of money and Standa hopes it will help him to fulfil his dreams.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsKarel FialaRudolf DeylMilos KopeckýStraight 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 lemonade as the refresher that assures deadly aim, convinces the Arizona sin-town to abstain from alcohol. But Trigger Whiskey maker Duke Badman's brother the devious gunslinger Hogofogo, comes to save his sibling's saloon from Joe's allies, father and daughter temperance revivalists, the Goodmans. Based on famous Czech parody novel from the 1940s and its various stage adaptations.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsZdenek SverákAndrey KhalimonLibuse SafránkováA confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsMichael BeranMiroslav DonutilSimona StasováTwo families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totally stupid; fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.
- DirectorJirí VejdelekStarsVica KerekesJirí MachácekPetra HrebíckováWhen a father teaches his son in-law about the perks of cheating, things take unexpected turns...
- DirectorEric DarnellTom McGrathStarsChris RockBen StillerDavid SchwimmerA group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsZdenek SverákDaniela KolárováPavel LandovskýA comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.
- DirectorJirí VejdelekStarsAnna PolívkováEva HolubováBohumil KleplComedy based on the novel and screenplay of the most popular contemporary Czech writer Michal Viewegh builds on the success of novels for women, who became the most successful film of last year. On the bus to leave Adriatic managed a random group of passengers.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsJan TrískaOldrich KaiserTereza RambaA boy and his family leave Prague during World War II and move to a small village called Slavonice. There, he meets distant relatives and adjusts to a new way of life.
- DirectorJirí VejdelekStarsLenka VlasákováEliska BalzerováVojtech DykWhen a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
- DirectorDan SvátekStarsDavid SvehlíkJaroslav DusekMarika Soposká3 different stories of men connected by their failure becoming alcoholics. Will they get the help to overcome alcohol or replace it with something else?
- DirectorOndrej HavelkaStarsKarel DobrýVladimír PolívkaJirí LábusA strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human. He is a Hastrman - a water spirit. Water is his element. He loves it, understands it and communicates with it. He needs water not only to sustain his life, but also to gain superhuman strength and dexterity. In this romantic, fantastical, yet ironic story, love brings Hastrman unexpected happiness with an agonizing dilemma: whether to remain a wild creature or to cross the boundaries and get closer to become a human. Vivid and earthy folklore of local villagers brings authenticity to pagan folkways, yet the story ends in present times.
- DirectorJulius SevcíkStarsKarel RodenHanns ZischlerOldrich KaiserA period in the life of diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, who was the son of Czechoslovakia's founder, served as the Central-European country's minister of foreign affairs and has been brutally killed by Russian secret service in 1948.
- StarsTatiana PauhofováJaroslava PokornáPetr StachBased on real characters and events, this drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1969. Dagmar Buresová, a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Jan's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonor Palach's sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.
- StarsTatiana PauhofováMartin MysickaJan Vlasák1989, on the cusp of the Velvet Revoluition, Marie and her husband Viktor return home in Prague after years of exile. After a car accident, Marie wakes up from a coma with no trace of Viktor.
- DirectorJirí HavelkaStarsTereza RambaVojtech KotekDagmar HavlováMrs. 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.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsIvan TrojanJosef TrojanJuraj LojThe life of successful Czech healer Jan Mikolasek, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and strong familiarity with plants, set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
- StarsMartin HofmannErika StárkováFrantisek Filip CervenkaDivorced man Ludek is surprised when he reconnects with his brother after several years.
- StarsSvatopluk SkopalVeronika FreimanováAndrea RuzickováA retro-series about recent Czech and Slovak history told via the microcosm of a single Czech family. A mosaic of three generations blending nostalgia with the bitter reality of the socialist regime.
- DirectorTomas HoffmanStarsPetra HrebíckováOndrej VetchýMiroslav TáborskýEliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to start anew without his financial support. Eliska starts teaching at a local village school. Since she can't find a lodging, she moves to a former morgue. The small house is already occupied by a quirky and grumpy graveyard keeper named Bozicek. Their house sharing leads to a series of comical conflicts, but they eventually fall in love and Eliska proves to her ex-husband that she is able to stand on her own.
- DirectorMarie PolednákováStarsKamila MagálováJirí BartoskaEva HolubováHigh school professor Helena is one of the favorite teachers. While her professional life is going great, her personal life is taking unpredictable turns - and her extended family provides plenty of opportunities.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlastimil BrodskýFrantisek RehákThe friends enjoy the charms of nature - and of their guests.
- DirectorJirí VejdelekStarsTatiana PauhofováHynek CermákRobert CejnarThe congenial Vojta is bashful and his family is batty. His short-tempered father, who once failed to swim the English Channel, wants him to be a competing swimmer and his loving mother, a former child ice revue star, sees a talented pianist in her son. But Vojta has completely different priorities - most of all his red-haired classmate Ela, an enchanting synchronized swimmer who is leaving for Paris in November. If Vojta doesn't do something radical, and fast, Ela will disappear behind the Iron Curtain forever. The year is 1989.
- DirectorRudolf HavlikStarsAnna PolívkováJirí LangmajerTatiana PauhofováThe charismatic and self-confident man, Karel Král, is the editor-in-chief of men's magazine. Although a chauvinistic type, he is very popular with women. However, he struggles in his personal life. He frequently argues with his ex-wife over their 17 year-old daughter Julie, who despises his new way of life. Then the consequences of his behavior catch up with him. He loses his job, and the editor-in-chief position is given to a young and beautiful woman. But his bad luck does not end there. After another fight with his ex-wife and daughter, and a woman driver crashing into his car, Karel and his best friend Cestmír have an evening of binge drinking. During the wild night, he expresses a wish to be a woman. When he wakes up the next morning he discovers that his wish has been granted.
- DirectorTomás VorelStarsJakub KohákEva HolubováPetra SpalkováThe story is about a plumber, who is called Good man from the bones. He is not afraid of any work, he manages all the work he gets. Wittily responds to every situation that befalls him. The drama lies in his life story, lets it float through his fingers. He does not have the courage to ask for adequate finances and his whole life is governed by his mom who cooks for him, washes his laundry and even handles his phone calls.
- DirectorPetr NikolaevStarsOndrej VetchýLibuse SafránkováVladimír JavorskýThe story of an ordinary family living in Czechoslovakia from around 1963 until the Velvet Revolution. Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Michal Wiewegh.
- DirectorTomas MasinStarsKrystof HádekKarolina GruszkaMartin HubaA 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he writes lyrics for many of the underground rock band hits by 'The Plastic People of the Universa', a group heavily influenced by Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsVáclav NeckárJosef SomrVlastimil BrodskýAn apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
- DirectorMilos SmídmajerStarsJirí MádlFilip BlazekEva PodzimkováThis quirky student comedy tells the story of Petr Kovár (Filip Blazek), who gets the chance to return to the past for a while and he meets the love of his life, his classmate Eliska, again in June 1989. There is one hook: physically he is seventeen again (played by Jirí Mádl), but his mind remains that of a modern "forty-something". He returns to a different reality, forgetting that he will be tested again and how the school system was different back then. Thus the plot throws him several comical and provocative twists and through a surprising romantic entanglement it lets the audience see and recall the absurdity of the pre-revolution era.
- DirectorJan PrusinovskýStarsMatej HádekKrystof HádekJan HájekBrothers Grass and Cobra Snake feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsMagda VásáryováJirí SchmitzerJaromír HanzlíkAn evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.
- DirectorSlávek HorákStarsAnna GeislerováMartin HofmannStanislav Majer'Havel' covers the Czech president's transformation from playwright to politician
- DirectorJirí VejdelekStarsEliska BalzerováTatiana DykováMartin MysickaUnexpectedly, costume designer Eva has become a widow. The surprises continue when an unknown child's drawing is discovered in her husband's possessions, and even though Eva would generously ignore the discovery, her daughter, whose life is falling apart at the seams, latches onto the idea of an estranged stepbrother. The mother and daughter set out in Ludvík's vintage VOLGA GAZ 21 car to follow the trails of Ludvík's former lovers and friends and find out more about the hidden family secret.
- DirectorKarel SmyczekStarsVáclav KoptaMichal SuchánekJan Antonín DuchoslavStory about a class of sixteen year olds learning how to ski.
- DirectorJan HaluzaStarsLucie BenesováLukás HejlíkAndrea HoffmannováWhen Natasha and Dominic unexpectedly became parents, the decision was clear. As a successful toys designer, Natasha is able to better secure the family financially, so Dominik will stay home and take care of their newborn baby. He approaches the task with a bit of a naive idea, and will use all his ingenuity to take care of little Cenek during the first year. Care sometimes reminds of the fight for survival. However, thanks to little Cenek, he discovers, how many forms can love have..
- DirectorEmil KrizkaStarsMilan BarosDaniel BodlákAlbert CubaAction comedy about four men going on a road trip from Ostrava to Prague filled with crazy events and unexpected detours.
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsBolek PolívkaCsongor KassaiJaroslav DusekIn German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
- DirectorJirí HavelkaStarsIgor ChmelaJana PlodkováCtirad GötzThe film tells the story of a small train riding without its driver and the passengers locked inside. They all had originally their individual goals and destinations but now they one common target - getting out of the train or eventually stopping it. Although the train is moving very slowly, a real drama (partially very absurd) breaks out both inside and outside the train where a rescue operation is being prepared by local authorities.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsJan TrískaZdenek SverákLibuse SafránkováThe 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 teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women.
- DirectorDusan KleinStarsBolek PolívkaZlata AdamovskáJosef SomrDistinctive characters, a kind view of their dreams, worries, and transgressions, which none of us can avoid, an original plot... This is the prepossessing setting of a comedy that takes us to Zvestov, a picturesque Moravian village where the men like to re-enact a famous Napoleonic battle. They do it with such enthusiasm that they almost cause a tragedy and turn the romantic wedding of Tomas and a beautiful French girl, Claire, into bloodshed. In the end, everything is resolved with common sense and humor, but mostly with ordinary happiness and love, which drowns out all the sabre-rattling and is more powerful than dreams about fame.
- DirectorTomas MasinStarsJirí MachácekVojtech DykTatiana PauhofováComedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War has begun a rampage in Wilson City, a jerkwater town somewhere in Central Europe. The investigation is being led by an inhomogeneous pair of detectives - a greenhorn and local police cadet named Kvido Eisner (Vojtech Dyk) and an experienced FBI officer Aaron Food (Jirí Machácek), who has been sent to Europe by US President Woodrow Wilson himself.
- DirectorLadislav SmoljakStarsJosef AbrhámLibuse SafránkováDaniela BakerováA comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.
- StarsMarie RosulkováDana MedrickáJana StepánkováLegendary Czech TV sitcom about four generations living under the same roof in a small house.
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsBolek PolívkaEva HolubováJaroslav DusekA bittersweet comedy set just prior to 1984, during the era of 'practical socialism'. For political reasons, Bedrich Mára (Bolek Polívka) has had to give up teaching at Prague's Academy of Art. He is not allowed to exhibit and has been pushed to the sidelines of interest and lucrative commissions. He and his ceramicist wife (Eva Holubová) and two sons live in a small apartment on the outskirts of Prague. Míla Brecka (Jaroslav Dusek), the school principal, and his family stand in stark contrast to the Máras. Comrade Míla and his ambitious wife (Vilma Cibulková), Bedrich's fellow student from the Academy, have gone with the socialist flow for years. They find justification for their behavior in the usual words: 'Someones got to swim along with them to make things better; someones got to make that sacrifice!'
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsJirí MachácekSimona BabcákováPavel LiskaA Prague weatherman gets a bad case of the seven-year itch.
- StarsKrystof HádekKlára MelískováTomás JerábekStanda 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.
- StarsJán KoleníkJirí VyorálekVeronika ArichtevaA 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.
- DirectorMarta FerencovaStarsTatiana PauhofováKlára IssováMichal ZebrowskiThe lives of three best friends - Linda, Vanda and Edo - get all tangled by four attractive men.