The Girl on a Broomstick 1972
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…
The Bridge at Remagen 1969
In the last days of World War II, the Allied Army desperately searched for a bridgehead across the impenetrable Rhine River, in order to launch a major assault into the…
Podkova pro stestí 1946
A man walking on the street finds a horseshoe, thinks it’s a good luck charm. So he decides to take it home with him and find a suitable place for…
Vánocní sen 1946
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…
The Miraculous Virgin 1967
A group of artists meets a beautiful and mysterious woman called Anabella, and all of them experience passion, dreams and get inspired by her.
Rosa Luxemburg 1986
Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa’s political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and…
Ferat Vampire 1982
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…
Beauty and the Beast 1978
In this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant’s youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.
Case for a Rookie Hangman 1970
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…
Witchhammer 1970
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…
Intimate Lighting 1965
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…
Black Peter 1964
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…
Diamonds of the Night 1964
WWII. Together, two young men – boys, really – with only the clothes on their backs, are running toward the forest, shedding their coats identifying them as being housed at…
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen 1962
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…
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958
While sailing with Princess Parisa to Baghdad to their wedding, Sinbad finds the Colossa Island and anchors his vessel to get supplies for the starving crew. Sinbad and his men…
Cars Without a Home 1959
Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia’s unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.
Black and White Sylva 1961
The heroine of a motion picture falls from the screen and into the real world.
Joseph Kilian 1963
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.
Invention for Destruction 1958
An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.
Alice 1988
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…
Slunce, seno, erotika 1991
The employees of an agricultural cooperative from Italy invite JZD Hostic employees to visit planning to visit Hostice, Czech village in turn. So the local peasant team organizes a tour…
Zaniklý svet rukavic 1982
Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema – from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel…
The Shop on Main Street 1965
Fascist Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman’s little shop for sewing material. She is old and…
The Silent Village 1943
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
Cutting it Short 1981
Francin (Jirí Schmitzer), manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska (Magda Vásáryová) looks ethereal but loves meat…
Short Night of Glass Dolls 1971
Greg Moore, an American journalist visiting Prague with his girlfriend Mira is found dead. However, he’s actually only temporarily paralyzed, but the coroner fails to realize this and proceeds to…