Movies and TvShows featuring "1940s-literature-on-screen" theme.
In Magnet of Doom, a man goes on the run in Paris and New York City after a failed boxing match. As he evades the authorities, he reflects on his life and tries to find a way to start anew.
Young Petr (Adam Novak) and his four friends undergoes several adventures throughout this series--setting a field on fire, sneaking into a theater without paying and many more.
Dominique is a psychological thriller about a wealthy woman who begins to question her sanity after the death of her husband. As she tries to move on with her life, she experiences strange occurrences and moments of memory lapse. She begins to suspect that someone is trying to gaslight her, leading her to question her own sanity and unravel the truth behind her husband's death.
Set in a psychiatric hospital, a young man with epilepsy tries to break free and search for his father. Along the way, he encounters various challenges and faces the harsh realities of his situation.
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
Saturnin is a comedy movie set in Prague, Czech Republic. It revolves around the lives of an old man, his nephew, and their eccentric household staff. The story is based on a novel and features humorous situations and family relationships during the 1930s and 1940s. The movie explores themes of upper-class society, employment dynamics, and the dynamics between different generations.
Barbora Hlavsová (1943) is a drama film based on a short story that takes place in central Europe during the 1940s. The story revolves around a female protagonist and explores themes of literature, culture, and history.
A husband and wife innkeeper in Central Europe face rivalry and conflict between brothers while dealing with a domineering wife and running their guesthouse. Based on a novel from the 1940s, this film showcases European humoristic literature.
Blazenka likes to imagine she is on a desolate island and has to find a way how to survive. After the death of her mother she stays together with her baby brother and has to take care of the family. In this difficult situation, she plays this role-game that helps her to deal with the sudden loss of her mother.
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
Joshua, a 20-something years old unemployed artist who's getting evicted, meets up with Gabriele, a boy who's new to the city and is apartment hunting. The two form a bond as Gabriele decides to move in after Joshua moves out, but expectations and unreadiness get in the way of a sparking romance.
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
Mother, father and child in the kitchen. They´ve run out of sugar and the child is sent over to grandma to get some. The child takes its every day route down the garden, over the fence, it crosses the street, gets the sugar and...
At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in whom he, to his horror, recognizes Hitler (Fritz Diez).
Set in the 18th century, this comedy revolves around a fake robbery and a group of respectable ladies from Pardubice, Czech Republic. Bound and gagged, they find themselves in a series of humorous situations.
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.