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The Painted Bird
A young Jewish boy in Poland seeks refuge in the forest during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
The Last Legion
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
Bathory
Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and wealth.
Modrý tygr
In a city ruled by the diabolical Mayor, it appears that only one thing can save the old botanical garden from being demolished for the construction of an entertainment center: the Blue Tiger. Now it is up to Johanka and Matyas to protect the tiger from the evil clutches of the Mayor and his henchmen and save the garden.
Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále
Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period.
Král sokolu
Tomas, a 14-year-old boy lives beneath the castle of the powerful Lord Balador. The boy is able to communicate with animals, and he tries to obtain the royal falcon – a symbol of freedom and faith. He also falls in love with Balador's daughter Formina, a girl who is to be married off against her will.
Wino truskawkowe
This is not a love story though it is full of love. It is not a comedy though the characters often say funny things. It is not a detective story even though the hero is trying to solve a murder. It is not a nature drama though it shows the splendid colours and customs of the countryside.
Na pude aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny?
In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Prince Charming, lazy Teddy Bear and the plasticine creature Schubert. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the Land of Evil, her pals set out to rescue her.
Sílení
A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man might have predicted.
Janosik. Prawdziwa historia
Janosik, an 18th century Hungarian outlaw living on the Slovak-Polish border, becomes a popular folk hero.
Orbis Pictus
In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother.
Slepé lásky
A poetic story about love and happiness between doc and fiction.
Ve stínu
A police captain Hakl investigates a jewel robbery in 1950s Prague. The case tangles, and Hakl must fight an enemy to save his family and himself.
Czerwony pajak
Karol, an ordinary young man, runs into a much older man, whom he believes to be a Red Spider, the terrifying serial killer, prowling the streets of Cracow in 1960s. Karol becomes obsessed with the man and spies on him.
Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe)
Eugene, an aging man, leads a double life – one real, the other in his dreams. He goes to see a psychoanalyst, who tries to interpret the meaning of his dreams. Eugene finds a way of entering his dream-world at will and finds out about his childhood and what really happened to his parents.
Smrtelné historky
Murderous Tales is a special effect animated feature film combining live actors with 3D/2D animation, puppets and back projection. It contains three stories while each episode uses different production technology and is in a different genre. All the episodes are about double standards and deal with heroism and death.
8 hlav sílenství
ANNA ALEXANDROVNA BARKOVA (1901-1976) Journalist and poet, meeting suspicious characters. Involved in immoral love affairs. Work in the Kremlin, fired. 1934 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in Karaganda.
Papierove hlavy
Dušan Hanák's final film: a bitter documentary about the history of Communism in Czechoslovakia.
Poklosie
Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.
Visions of Europe
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Záhrada
Jakub's life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows by his relation with a married woman. Breaking out, Jakub realizes the pleasures of the countryside in the old garden of his grandfather.
Colette
Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most-renowned literary authors of our time. Lustig's novel 'A Girl from Antwerp,' upon which this film 'Colette' is based, draws on the author's personal Nazi concentration-camp experience and his own recollection of several escape attempts from the hell of Auschwitz.
LokalFilmis
An old gypsy prophecy predicts the arrival of a messiah from a Roma settlement who will change the world. Rytmaus is born and gradually becomes the most famous rapper in Europe. Rytmaus decides to run for president of the Slovak Republic. Pišta Lakatoš will stand against him in the elections.
Muz se zajecima usima
Despite the strong belief of Josef, a 60-year-old writer, that nothing can still surprise him, his life takes a sudden turn which forces him to settle scores with the past.
Prání k mání
Kindly, mischievous and humorous story about the troubles of a lovesick teenager called Albert.
Já, Olga Hepnarová
Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
Krajinka
Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small towns and villages.
Müanyag égbolt
2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen is gradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.
Spina
Lena is a 17-year-old girl from a middle-class family who is experiencing her first love: secret night adventures and magical morning walks along the Danube. However, her dream world is shattered when she is raped. Withdrawing, she ultimately attempts to slit her wrists. Her family, helpless, entrusts her to a psychiatric institute.
Vsetko co mam rad
A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who's soon to return home to England.
Zelary
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
#annaismissing
The gripping and thought-provoking #Annaismissing follows young Nina as she investigates the disappearance of Anna, a popular influencer known for her controversial online content. With shocking revelations about her own father’s connection to Anna, Nina must navigate a dangerous world of online predators and revenge porn to uncover the truth.
Andel Páne 2
A story that takes place during Advent, we'll meet again with your favorite pair angel Petronel and devil Urias. Their eternal wrangling causes the rare apple from the tree of the knowledge to roll on earth. And that God is really angry. Petronel with Urias find themselves in a small Czech town on the eve of the feast of St. Nicholas.
Charlatan
Born in the early 20th century, herbalist Jan Mikolasek became rich and famous after curing countless diseases with unorthodox means. A true emblem of Czechoslovakia before World War II, the healer became even more appreciated during the Nazi occupation and the communist regime. Each regime appreciates his skill and protects him.
Dom
Stone by stone, Imrich is building a small house for his daughter Eva almost entirely on his own. But for Eva, who is about to graduate from school, the prospect of moving into the house is about as appealing as being imprisoned in a jail she herself has helped to build. She has very different plans for her future...
Domestik
Roman is a top level cyclist recovering from an injury through hard work and strict regimen. To improve his performance, he even sleeps in an oxygen tent installed in his bedroom. That is a bitter pill to swallow for his wife, Šarlota, whose long-time wish is to conceive a child.
Fair Play
In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
Fotograf
The life and work of internationally renown provocative Czech photographer Jan Saudek.
Hovory s TGM
On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work.
I mysi patrí do nebe
A mouse and a fox die and find themselves in animal paradise and become best friends. Upon their return to earth they are reborn in opposite roles, but the power of friendship surpasses the impossible.
Je třeba zabít Sekala
ComiBaran, a protestant blacksmith arrives in the little village of Lakotice to kill Sekal, a cruel Nazi collaborator.
Její telo
A Czech high diver's Olympic dreams are shattered when she suffers a devastating injury while training. Forced to leave the sport she loves, she follows a photographer friend into the world of nude modeling, ultimately reinventing herself as an adult film actress. Inspired by the true story of diving champion Andrea Absolonová.
Klauni
Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years.
Líbánky
A wedding is supposed to be a joyous occasion, but things can go awry. When an uninvited guest turns up at the church and later at the reception as well, the newly-weds’ day turns sour. Shadows of the past can blight the most sumptuous of banquets and rend the most affectionate of embraces.
Lidice
Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.
Slunecní stát aneb hrdinové delnické trídy
Set in the present, the four ordinary men in this story find themselves at crossroads in their lives. Karel, Tomas, Milan, and Vinc were once seduced by the possibility of making money in Ostrava's cosmopolitan melting pot. But times are changing - the company has offered their jobs to foreign workers.
The Auschwitz Report
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning, they manage to escape. While the inmates they had left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, the two men are driven on by the hope that their evidence could save lives.
Tmár a jeho rod aneb Slzavé údolí pyramid
Karel Vachek’s latest documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion. At the same time it brings up the need for a healthy sense of skepticism and the benefit of not believing in anything that advertises itself as certain.
Tobruk
Set in the Libyan Desert in World War II, a battalion of Czech soldiers face the siege of Tobruk.
Vlk z Královských Vinohrad
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.