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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wandering around wine bars and pubs drinking, thirty-year old worker Oldrich (Petr Kostka), who is celebrating the birth of his son, meets a seventeen-year old lad called Yellow T-shirt Boy (Vladimír Pucholt). Yellow T-shirt Boy is a problematic ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, poignant
Plot:
fatherhood, compassion, character study, working class, social realism, male protagonist, male bonding, friendship, alienation, bittersweet, coming of age, redemption ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Movie about a sculptor Otakar Svec who is building a statue of Stalin in Prague.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dark, art house, suspense ...
Plot:
artist, sculptor, moral dilemma, political oppression, totalitarianism, surveillance, symbolism, sculpture, propaganda, paranoia, biopic, accomplice ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A comedy on a typical children summer camp from the socialist time, telling the truth about it: combination of strange cynical leaders, absent-minded young assistants with complexes, teenage girls desperately in love with them etc. What a pioneer ...
Style:
satirical, period piece, ironic, dark comedy, light hearted ...
Plot:
summer, youth, teenage girl, satire, youth culture, summer camp, friendship, nostalgia, coming of age, slice of life, bittersweet, political satire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, hospital, innocence, coming of age, first love, compassion, empathy, adolescence, paralysis, recovery, bittersweet, summer ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Style:
period piece, tense, suspenseful, patriotic
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, behind enemy lines, guerilla warfare, resistance, occupation, sabotage, underground movement, sacrifice, resilience, heroism, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, czechoslovakia, poland, ussr
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an ...
Style:
romantic drama, period piece
Plot:
jealousy, young couple, family drama, marital problem, young parents, slice of life, motorcycle racing, brother brother relationship, matchmaking, coming of age, small town life, parenting ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva ...
Style:
absurd, surreal, slapstick, psychotronic, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
circus, elephant, anthropomorphism, talking animal, satire, human animal relationship, bet, language barrier, children, poodle, performance art, competition ...
Time:
70s
Place:
czechoslovakia, moscow russia, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is ...
Style:
fairy tale, folk tale, period piece, allegory, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
ghost, magic, supernatural, castle, hopes, wish fulfillment, political satire, small town, community, optimism, communism, enchantment ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, sabotage, resistance, covert operation, espionage, commando raid, guerilla warfare, sacrifice, loyalty, heroism, weapons ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, former yugoslavia
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138
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. They are especially focused on a pretty girl that sells newspapers, and they make a bet which one ...
Style:
tense, period piece, controversial, black and white, psychological
Plot:
summer, gang, teenager, small town, threat, sexual harassment, coastal town, antisocial behavior, seduction, bet, alienation, realism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in hus life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and ...
Style:
existential, contemplative, reflective, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
artist, self discovery, personal growth, choice, identity, character study, relationships, love triangle, humanism, slice of life, coming of age, intimate ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, slovakia, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The fourth part of Dusan Klein's comedy cycle, following its hero Stepán Safránek (Pavel Kríz) from his senior year in high school through medical school and his first year of medical practice to his post-Velvet Revolution experiences with ...
Style:
romantic comedy, period piece, witty, medical drama, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social commentary, ethical dilemma, irony, satire, personal growth, relationships, small town, slice of life, coming of age, hometown, bittersweet, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a ...
Style:
reflective, melancholic, art house, dark comedy, poetic ...
Plot:
fear of death, midlife crisis, mortality, aging, male protagonist, flirting, seduction, sexuality, retiring, regret, mature, character study ...
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
TV show
Story:
A three-part crime miniseries from the new cycle Detectives from the Holy Trinity, directed by one of the best present-day Czech film directors Jan Hrebejk. Containing retro-elements and framed by an authentic and realistic description of the crime ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
murder, exorcism, police investigation, police officer, coworker relationship, policewoman, priest, murder investigation, church, satanism, investigation, police procedural ...
Time:
60s
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia
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154
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 660 min.
TV show
Story:
Sanitka was a Czech television, drama series, first broadcast in 1984 and eleven episodes were made. It starred Jaromír Hanzlík, Tomáš Juricka and Zlata Adamovská among others.
Style:
medical drama, compassionate, historical drama, period piece, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ambulance, doctor, life & death, heroism, realism, resilience, humanism, social commentary, urban, family drama, emergency, medicine ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, rough, slasher, erotic ...
Plot:
paranoia, disappearance, dying repeatedly, orgy, sect, danger, journalism, autopsy, investigation, medical examiner, delusion, reporter ...
Time:
70s, future, 60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, czech republic, europe, venice ...
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
Style:
cult classic, humorous, intense, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, basic training, boot camp, cold war, soldier, u.s. army, slacker, satire, military, rescue mission, dumped by girlfriend, u.s. military ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
milan italy, czechoslovakia, italy, kentucky, west germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man.
Style:
apocalyptic, surreal, psychotronic
Plot:
post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, distopia, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, matriarchy, animal abuse, killing an animal, bombing, fishing, dystopia, minimal dialogue ...
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. During one of their "jobs" they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return news of the kidnapping and robbery to the King. Kozlik ...
Style:
art house, black and white, surreal, philosophical, experimental ...
Plot:
medieval, folk horror, stallion, nobility, renaissance, rape, brother sister incest, knight, sexual assault, winter, kidnapping, fortress ...
Time:
middle ages, near future, year 1967, 13th century, medieval times
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia, slovakia, czech republic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an ...
Style:
dark comedy, cult classic, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, sisters, renaissance, sister, totalitarian regime, holocaust, modernism, spirituality, hound dog, picnic, freedom ...
Time:
year 1966
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. The inquisitor targets nobles and merchants, whose property and goods are then ...
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
witch, burned at the stake, inquisition, medieval, torture, burned alive, torture chamber, witchcraft, occult, religions or cults, priest, church ...
Time:
middle ages, 20th century, year 1970, 17th century
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story is an allegory of Adam and Eve, in a modern (made in the '60s) Health Retreat. The action involves our hero wandering the grounds where she becomes obsessed with a mysterious man in red, who may or may not be a killer.
Style:
erotic, avant garde, art house, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot:
adam and eve, renaissance, surrealism, trippy, swamp, garden, woman, modernism, sister, sisters, folk horror, nudity ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, europe, central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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 man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined ...
Style:
surreal, satirical, existential, not serious, biting ...
Plot:
renaissance, surrealism, satire, disorder, social decay, fish out of water, imaginary, society, social misfits, dystopia, existentialism, hare ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, europe, czech republic, central europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Trojice venkovských fasádníků pracuje na montáži při obnově pražské zástavby. A když už se dostali do hlavního města, rozhodnou se, že by neškodilo si tady pořádně užít a vyhodit z kopýtka. Aby nedělali ostudu, nechají si ...
Style:
lighthearted, witty, romantic comedy, slapstick
Plot:
night, class differences, working class, satire, male bonding, fish out of water, friendship, entertainment, makeover, social climbing, deception, flirting ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The ...
Style:
black comedy, apocalyptic, absurd, raunchy comedy, spoof ...
Plot:
time paradox, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, distopia, surrealism, time travel, time machine, nobleman, fat man, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, woman rapes man, love story ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century, future, 1910s
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, europe, prague, czech republic
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress ...
Style:
fairy tale, gothic horror, atmospheric, romantic, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
beauty and the beast, monster, curse, loneliness, ruins, father, mansion, sister, daughter, maiden, father daughter relationship, strong female character ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, eastern europe, europe, central europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dorota, a bad woman married the miller, out of sheer greed drives him to death. She then took the mill away from his son Peter and threw him out of the hime. Lucifer, who is known to rule in hell, sends out the devil Janek. He is supposed to fetch ...
Style:
fairy tale, psychotronic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
stepmother stepson relationship, deal with the devil, pact with the devil, devil, hell, crazy love, mythology, voice over narration, secret mission, bossiness, dog, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
czech republic, czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!
Style:
slapstick, absurd, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy ...
Plot:
dream, superhero, mad scientist, cowboy, sleeping, cow, bribery, bureaucracy, absurdism, female scientist, police chase, gunslinger ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
czech republic, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe, prague
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet ...
Style:
satirical
Plot:
renaissance, road trip, communism, surrealism, robbery, female friendship, old woman, indigenous people, friend, friendship, suffering, male female relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
idealism, teenage life, fighting the system, youth, rebelliousness, hopes, politics, actor's life, parents and children, political unrest, adolescence, couples ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1977, year 1968
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe
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