In a small Czech village occupied by the Nazis, a young train dispatcher apprentice navigates love, politics, and sexual awakening while working at the train depot.
In the heady days of the 1968 Prague Spring, a group of Czechoslovak Radio journalists risk not just their careers but their lives to distribute independent news amidst national and regional tumult. Orphaned brothers Tomáš and Pája are caught in the struggle for freedom. The elder, Tomáš, is a radio technician working at the station committed to defying the Communist Party’s censorship, overwhelming propaganda, and police harassment. When security forces pressure him to spy for them, Tomáš finds himself in a bind where he has to choose between betraying his colleagues or protecting Pája.
Dark Blue World is a movie set during World War II, where a group of Czech pilots join the Royal Air Force (RAF) to fight against Nazi Germany. The film explores themes of friendship, love, and sacrifice as the pilots face the challenges of war.
Based on a true story, Operation: Daybreak (1975) follows a group of Czech resistance fighters who are tasked with assassinating Reinhard Heydrich, one of the key architects of the Holocaust. As they carry out their mission, they face betrayal, danger, and the ultimate sacrifice.
In the eve of World War II, a Czech scientist and a British secret agent must escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on a night train to Munich, facing danger and intrigue along the way.
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife is a screwball comedy about a millionaire and a shopgirl who meet on the French Riviera and get married. However, their relationship is tested when the millionaire's ex-wife tries to win him back.
Johann Faust comes back to life. After centuries spent in darkness he unleashes a night of terror in Prague, with vampires, zombies and mutants. This time, Faust has a new obsession - to get even with his past life and his family. There is also the devil Mephistopheles, who controls everything like a puppeteer from afar. The film based on Goethe's iconic work and unpublished, short stories by F. Kotleta and K. Sněgoňová presenting bloody coctail of horror and fantasy.
Set in Prague, Czechoslovakia during World War Two, All My Loved Ones tells the story of Nicholas Winton and his efforts to save Jewish children from the horrors of the Holocaust. The film explores themes of family relationships, tragedy, and the resilience of the human spirit.
After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Libuše Jarcovjáková, a young female photographer, strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a schoolteacher becomes caught up in a web of betrayal, vengeance, and international relations as he navigates life under the oppressive regime. Based on a true story and featuring a courageous teenage protagonist, Higher Principle explores the themes of occupation, resistance, and the power of education.
Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since she loves her husband Václav sincerely. One day she spots him on the Lesser Town Square in Prague, kissing an attractive blonde good-bye. It seems to Marie that her small comfortable world has collapsed and she walks out of the tram in tears. But her sadness does not last long. She wipes off the tears and begins to act. She withdraws all the money from their savings books and buys off all the latest models from the Fashion Works. The visit to the beauty salon then completes her transformation into a lady.
The life of Franz Kafka in a series of independent chapters: from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his final years in Berlin and death in 1924, and his imagined future.
The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the Prague-occupying SS troops in World War II.
A gripping drama based on the true story of the Czech resistance fighters who assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Nazi leader. The film explores the brutality of war, the sacrifices made by the resistance fighters, and the devastating consequences of their actions.
During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir.
A little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. There, the boy became friends with a local fisherman and learned to catch the golden eels. Eventually, his father and mother were arrested by the Nazis and the boy stayed with the fisherman.
What is love? Two young men have found themselves out of rhythm in their relationship as issues they haven’t vocalized begin to boil over in unexpected ways one night. ROCK HARD is a story of what happens when partners don’t communicate, and serves as a lessons for billions of viewers worldwide in the ways we have to participate in love rather than seeing it as effortless.
Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.