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1. The Twelve Chairs (1970)
GP | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise
Votes: 7,130 | Gross: $1.81M
2. Anna Karenina (II) (2013–2018)
Not Rated | 354 min | Drama
Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent and handsome Count Vronsky. Tolstoy's novel adaptation.
Stars: Santiago Cabrera, Lou de Laâge, Sydne Rome, Ángela Molina
Votes: 648
3. Morgiana (1972)
106 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
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 her murder.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Josef Abrhám, Nina Divísková, Petr Cepek
Votes: 1,550
4. The Lower Depths (1957)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjirô Nakamura
Votes: 5,960
5. Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be all right. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world, and strange things are going to happen.
Director: Grigori Kromanov | Stars: Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver
Votes: 1,662
6. Anna Karenina (1977)
500 min | Drama, History, Romance
Anna Karenina is the young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires, Anna complicates her life.
Stars: Nicola Pagett, Stuart Wilson, Eric Porter, Robert Swann
Votes: 292
7. Lover's Prayer (2001)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War
A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.
Director: Reverge Anselmo | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Julie Walters, Geraldine James, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 866
8. Unexpected Encounters (1995 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Crew of a spaceship spearheading colonization of a planet comes into contact with just one local inhabitant - a humanoid boy that looks remarkably human.
Director: Irena Pavlásková | Stars: Petr Rícánek, Lukás Vaculík, Josef Abrhám, Martina Mensíková
Votes: 82
9. The Eagle (1925)
Unrated | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family's land, only to fall for his charming daughter.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser, Albert Conti
Votes: 2,278 | Gross: $0.32M
10. Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina (1994)
106 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Ilin
Votes: 602
11. Karamazovi (2008)
110 min | Drama
A film that examines the relationships between lives on both sides of the proscenium, Petr Zelenka's Karamazovi finds a Prague-based theatrical ensemble arriving in Krakow, Poland - where ... See full summary »
Director: Petr Zelenka | Stars: Michaela Badinková, Jerzy Michal Bozyk, Igor Chmela, Malgorzata Galkowska
Votes: 1,254
12. The Crabs (1976)
12 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A sci-fi film that is an allegory about the suicidal character of war waged by militant factions. A military scientist who originally intends to breed perfect robots - crabs, based on the ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Mergl
Votes: 116
13. Spring Waters (1968)
91 min | Drama, Romance
An aging lonesome man, Dimitri Pavlovich Sanin, holds a celebration at his manor. He leaves for his study and the iron ring which he finds in his table returns him in his memories forty ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Krska | Stars: Vít Olmer, Alzbeta Strkulová, Kveta Fialová, Marie Glázrová
Votes: 31
14. Notti bianche (2021)
Short, Drama, Romance
Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky's short story "White Nights", the short film presents two young men who were brought together by accidental forces of circumstances when one of them is ... See full summary »
Director: Alessandro Calì Ventura | Stars: Sebastiano Fumagalli, Emanuel Iacono
Votes: 55
15. The Darkness of Power (2012)
14 min | Short, Drama
On the day of his stepdaughter's wedding, her stepfather guilt over his affair with her and his other sins lead to shocking confessions.
Director: Maria Tsvetkova | Stars: Alla Dmitrieva, Ekaterina Kireeva, Viktor Kuzin, Ekaterina Melnik
16. Videt Salisbury (2022)
117 min | Comedy
The film was filmed based on the play of the same name by Viktor Shenderovich. A black comedy about a striking journey of two agents Tchepigin and Mishkin to the Mother Russia. Former ... See full summary »
Director: Michal Lang | Stars: Jakub Albrecht, Tomás Bukovský, Tomás Dianiska, Vendula Fialová
17. The Twelve Chairs (1933)
83 min | Comedy
Ferdinand spent most of his as a barber. And he would probably stay like this for the rest of his life. But one day an attorney's clerk knocks on his door and tells him he became universal heir to his aunt, who had recently died in Warsaw.
Directors: Martin Fric, Michal Waszynski | Stars: Vlasta Burian, Adolf Dymsza, Zula Pogorzelska, Zofia Jaroszewska
Votes: 98
18. Speed for Thespians (2000)
TV-PG | 28 min | Drama, Short, Comedy
Three actors and a director perform Chekhov's The Bear on a New York City bus (actually, a succession of buses, as they keep getting thrown off). The other riders on the final bus get progressively more interested.
Director: Kalman Apple | Stars: Jamie Harris, Camilla Enders, Denis Holmes, Layla Alexander
Votes: 115
19. Návsteva z vesmíru (1977 TV Movie)
Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director: Otakar Kosek | Stars: Petr Gleich, Zdenek Hradilák, Premysl Matousek, Svatopluk Matyás
21. Souboj (1969 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Jaroslava Adamová, Svatopluk Benes, Vladimír Bicík, Josef Bláha
22. Dotek motýla (1973 TV Movie)
50 min | Mystery, Romance
The romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at a carnival who seems familiar. He thinks he has seen her in an old castle where the villagers believe only the old ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Jana Brejchová, Pavel Pavlovský, Vladimir Jedenáctik, Petr Cepek
Votes: 31
23. Záhada trí kapitánu (1990– )
Family, Sci-Fi
Stars: Klára Jandová, Oldrich Vízner, Petr Kostka, Ilona Jirotková
24. Podobizna (1948)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but in the end he commits suicide. After Chazaj's death, the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it.
Director: Jiri Slavicek | Stars: Otomar Krejca, Ljuba Skorepová, Vladimír Smeral, Ladislav Kulhánek
Votes: 69
25. Na letním byte (1989 TV Movie)
25 min | Comedy
The elderly couple live peacefully in their summer house, the man and his brother-in-law just hang out at home. One day the husband receives a love letter - an unknown girl asks him out. He... See full summary »
Director: Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Alice Chrtková, Veronika Freimanová, Eva Hrusková, Tomás Juricka
27. Zlocinec (1967 TV Short)
14 min | Short, Comedy
The man who unscrewed the nut from the tracks, endangering safety, is being questioned in court. He defends himself that he needed the nut as a fishing pole. After all, everybody does it...... See full summary »
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Jaroslav Marvan, Vladimír Mensík
28. Medved (1985 TV Short)
33 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: Václav Hudecek | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Iva Janzurová, Frantisek Filipovský
Votes: 11
30. 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
31. The Inspector General (1933)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy
Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever... See full summary »
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Vlasta Burian, Jaroslav Marvan, Václav Trégl, Josef Vosalík
Votes: 145
32. Osvetnik (1958)
12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Literary adaptation from a Chekhov story: A man goes to a gun shop so he can take vengeance on his unfaithful wife and her lover. But he is also thinking of using the weapon on himself.
Director: Dusan Vukotic
Votes: 53
33. Otcové a deti (1971 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Zdenek Dusek, Jaromír Hanzlík, Hana Houbová, Jan Kacer
34. Revizor (2004 TV Movie)
108 min | Comedy
Director: Viktor Polesný | Stars: Jirí Lábus, Oldrich Kaiser, Simona Stasová, Katerina Hrachovcová
Votes: 10
35. Bahno (1969 TV Movie)
28 min | Comedy
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Jirí Adamíra, Jana Drbohlavová, Vera Koktová
36. Prehlídce velim já (1969)
85 min | Comedy
Ungraduated law student Folta (Karel Höger), now a driver at a soda works, offers successful legal guidance. He gives good advice to the butcher Pejsa (Ilja Prachar) who is facing charges ... See full summary »
Director: Jaroslav Mach | Stars: Karel Höger, Cestmír Randa, Slávka Budínová, Josef Chvalina
Votes: 32
37. Kolonie Lanfieri (1969)
84 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A handsome young man called Horn gets off a Dutch ship on a small godforsaken island. He builds a shack by the mountain lake and sometimes goes to the local village to buy things. He spends... See full summary »
Director: Jan Schmidt | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Zuzana Kocúriková, Václav Neckár, Michal Docolomanský
Votes: 38
38. Medved (1961)
34 min | Short, Comedy
Half a year after the death of her husband, a very well-preserved widow still keeps mourning and does not leave the house. Her exalted mourning is abruptly interrupted by a rude visitor - ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Jan Werich, Stella Zázvorková, Bohus Záhorský
Votes: 74
39. Mé ironické stestí (1974 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Jana Brejchová, Zdenek Buchvaldek, Zdenek Rehor, Frantisek Vicena
40. Oblomov (2002 TV Movie)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
Directors: Miroslav Krobot, Pavel Linhart | Stars: Igor Chmela, Jana Holcová, Lenka Krobotová, Jirí Machácek
41. Svédská zápalka (1982 TV Movie)
67 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: Jirí Svoboda | Stars: Josef Somr, Josef Abrhám, Rudolf Hrusínský, Jirí Menzel
Votes: 28
42. O neopetované lásce (1982 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Director: Jirí Belka | Stars: Eliska Balzerová, Vlastimil Bedrna, Vladimír Bicík, Eduard Cupák
43. Jubileum (1985 TV Short)
32 min | Short, Comedy
The bank, run by a certain Shipuchin, is preparing to celebrate its 15th anniversary. Shipuchin is waiting for the delegation and is preparing a speech about the bank's reputation. The ... See full summary »
Director: Ivo Paukert | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Karel Belohradský, Jirina Bohdalová, Rudolf Hrusínský
44. Zaslepení (1987 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Jan Censký, Zdenek Ornest, Simona Postlerová, Jirí Samek
45. Nepocestná (1991 TV Movie)
43 min | Drama
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Eliska Vitanovská, Ladislav Frej, Jana Brezinová
46. Neprátelé (1965 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Jaroslav Novotný | Stars: Blanka Bohdanová, Milos Kopecký, Miroslava Kozáková, Václav Lohniský
47. Ivanov (1984 TV Movie)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
Once a man of great influence and means, Ivanov has fallen into debt and out of love with his wife. Spending his evenings away from home, among the idle and morally corrupt, Ivanov finds ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Sevcík | Stars: Marta Solcová, Jaroslav Konecný, Radek Kolesa, Inka Brendlová
48. Polská krev (1934)
Musical
The daughter of a landowner saves an aristocratic neighbor from ruin in this operetta adaptation.
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Alfred Bastýr, Lilian Bergo, Jaroslav Bráska, Frantisek Cerný
Votes: 14
49. Visnový sad (1970 TV Movie)
Drama
Stars: Jana Gýrová, Svatava Hubenáková, Václav Jerábek, Eva Jirousková
50. Mestáci (1962 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Vladimír Hlavatý, Jirina Jirásková, Jaroslav Marvan, Ludek Munzar