Movies and TvShows featuring "czech-noir" theme.
Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother.
In the year 2041, a female detective named Em investigates the murder of a couple in central Europe. The case takes a twist when a restoration team restores one of the victims back to life. As Em delves deeper into the investigation, she realizes that the case is more complex than it appears, with political implications. 'Restore Point' is a visually inventive and thought-provoking film that challenges the notion of technological progress.
Richard is a police investigator who hasn't seen his daughter Lily for very long time. The series starts when Lily shows up at his door and asks for help. She tells him that she fell in love with judge Kowalský but he attacked her and she killed him in self-defense. He decides to help her at all cost. Richard becomes lead investigator in case of Kowalský's murder.
In 1980s Prague, a British citizen disappears under suspicious circumstances. A female private investigator is hired to uncover the truth, leading her into a world of espionage and secret police. As she digs deeper, she unravels a web of secrets and discovers the dark underbelly of the city.
Four episodes reveal criminal background of organized crime in post-revolution Czechoslovakia. Who can you trust yet? Czechoslovakia in 1992 - communist regime has fallen short time ago and soviet occupying army is quickly retreating back to eastern Europe. Wagons leaving the country are full of weapons, ammunition and equipment. Two young students testing new railway control system find out, that some of soviet wagons disappear on their way home. They try to find out the reason, but one of them is found dead and second way is probably on the run. Senior warrant officer Roman Redl with team of investigators is trying to reveal reason for murder and trace the criminal ties, that could leaves east from Czechoslovakia.
In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy.
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.
In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchists.
Alois Nebel, a mute train dispatcher, becomes entangled in a murder mystery during the communist era. As he tries to escape his haunted past, he must confront his own demons. The film is a visually stunning neo-noir with deep social and political undertones.
In the Shadow is a crime drama set in Central Europe. The story follows a detective who is tasked with investigating the mysterious disappearance of a man in a small town. As he delves deeper into the case, he uncovers a web of intrigue and corruption that threatens to reveal dark secrets about the town and its inhabitants.
A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.
Set during World War II in Prague, a psychiatrist is drawn into the resistance movement as he confronts his personal fears and the atrocities of war.
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).
After a failed scientific experiment, a man becomes invisible and begins to uncover dark secrets within his family and society.