Movies and TV shows set in czechoslovakia – page 3
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List of movies set in czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Slovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, a single mother who fled communist Czechoslovakia has to return to her homeland in order to pay an old debt. The risky trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Plot:
communism, single mother, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, museum, cheating wife, flashback, hotel room, bus, cuckolded husband, female protagonist, train, mother ...
Time:
80s, year 1990, year 1981
Place:
czechoslovakia, vienna
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39K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Australia, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
Style:
dramatic, historical drama, powerful, period drama
Plot:
child, rescue, jewish family, immigration, czech history, refugee, children, based on real people, biopic, world war two, deportation, war hero ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, 20th century, 1940s, year 1987
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, london
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The 20th century's first man lands on the moon and discovers - that Baron Munchausen has already beaten him to it, along with Cyrano and characters from Jules Verne's lunar-landing novel. The Baron spirits the young cosmonaut by ...
Style:
experimental, adult animation, psychedelic, cult classic, claymation ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
giant bird, trippy, european, nobleman, giant fish, psychology, spacesuit, moon landing, moon, palace, baron, beauty ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, constantinople
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of ...
Style:
art house, black and white, contemplative, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
cancer, superstition, soldier, anxiety, feminism, feminist, hospital, women, storytelling, art, character study, fear of death ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, czechoslovakia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the ...
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, store, genocide, nazi, fascist, politics, fascism, rescue, human nature, against humanity, danger ...
Time:
1940s, year 1965, year 1942
Place:
slovakia, israel, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ...
Style:
anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
Plot:
renaissance, surrealism, gypsy, motorcycle race, insurance agent, modernism, satire, fiancee, dark humor, pub, car, old man ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, prague, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Taking his young city girlfriend along for the trip, a man visits old musical friends in a country village for a string quartet rehearsal.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, modernism, exodus, renaissance, villa, classmate, musician, funeral, small town, gay subtext, bittersweet, misfit ...
Time:
year 1965, 20th century, 60s
Place:
balkan, czechoslovakia, eastern europe, europe, czech republic
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17K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap ...
Style:
psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, female friendship, feminism, flapper, nihilism, feminist, absurd humor, female protagonist, female antagonist, teenage girl, women, satire ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
czech republic, czechoslovakia, eastern europe, prague, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
Style:
black comedy, experimental, psychotronic, absurd, avant garde ...
Plot:
surrealism, female nudity, nude girl, modernism, swing, cheating wife, prison, funeral, wedding, murder, horse race, wedding ceremony ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, prague, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Dívka na koštěti or The Girl on the Broomstick is a 1972 Czechoslovak fantasy-comedy film directed by Václav Vorlíček. It tells a story of a teenage witch, Saxana (played by Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, who ...
Style:
fairy tale, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction ...
Audience:
kids, teen fantasy
Plot:
witch, sorcerer, owl, broken leg, psychiatric patient, parallel world, troublemaker, coming of age, supernatural, mythology, psychological manipulation, vintage car ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
costume drama, crying, period drama
Plot:
renaissance, wedding ceremony, marriage, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, train, gambler, mother daughter relationship, unhappy marriage, cousin cousin relationship, nun, illness ...
Time:
20th century, year 1900, turn of the century, 1900s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
Style:
surreal, slapstick comedy, buddy comedy, dark comedy, psychotronic ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
machine, man with glasses, dual role, biopunk, domestic drama, hotel manager, prison visit, lower class, death, scheme, overweight woman, heist ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague, central europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
Plot:
summer, renaissance, family relations, melancholy, drinking, beer, father son relationship, friend, friendship, hopes, illness, hospital ...
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every Christmas one of the boys has to face the master in a magical ...
Style:
christmas horror, cult classic, anime, fairy tale, psychotronic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, forbidden love, evil sorcerer, apprentice, raven, sorcerer, folk horror, warlock, master apprentice relationship, death, metamorphosis, death of friend ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
czech republic, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed ...
Style:
fairy tale, beautiful
Audience:
kids
Plot:
surrealism, wolf, snow, renaissance, prophecy, witch, stepmother, death, boy, peasant, avalanche, sister sister relationship ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, balkan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
husband and wife, village life, mental retardation, provincial life, working class, marital infidelity, married woman, cheating on husband, magic realism, summer, couple relations, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
balkan, czech republic, czechoslovakia, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true character to survive. Each time, the real human watches ...
Style:
surreal, captivating, biting, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
surrealism, parallel world, skinny dipping, satire, dentist, weakness, vengeance, danger, imaginary, media, vigilantism, man versus machine ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ondrej, a young boy who loves bees and bats, is introduced to his new mother, a woman much younger than his father. Her brings her a bowl of flower petals which she starts to throw in the air and then gives out a shriek, as she discovers several ...
Style:
homoerotic, black and white, spiritual, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
medieval, treasure hunt, male nudity, philosophy, time machine, spirituality, kingdom, crusader, existentialism, religion, heroes, introspection ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 13th century, year 1968
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, ...
Style:
dark comedy, gothic horror, black comedy, gothic, phantasmagoric ...
Plot:
murder, sister sister relationship, sister, sibling rivalry, nudity, female nudity, jealousy, poison, inheritance, terror, folk horror, renaissance ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, czech republic
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art ...
Style:
fairy tale, adult animation, expressionism, psychedelic, gothic horror ...
Plot:
stop motion, rat, magic realism, folklore, nightmare, money, greed, children, mysterious man, metamorphosis, folk horror, transformation ...
Time:
year 1986, medieval times
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck, art house ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
surrealism, killer child, folk horror, baby, absurdism, arthouse horror, tree, dark humor, couple relations, monster, obsession, extreme ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
For the past 40 years, Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure) has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative, and remarkable surrealists of our time. Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, ...
Style:
experimental, psychological, disturbing, surreal, art film ...
Plot:
surrealism, stop motion, puppet, humanity in peril, human existence, human flesh, multiple storylines, absurdism, dark humor, macabre, puppetry, symbolism ...
Place:
czechoslovakia
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594
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of The Insect ...
Style:
psychotronic, allegory, captivating, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
beetle, insect, cockroach, hallucination, pregnancy, newborn baby, murder, dog, baby, director, actor, dark humor ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
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878
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Czech refugee Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova) travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna (Sally Kirkland). After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, talky ...
Plot:
girl, aging, strong female presence, immigrant, desire for fame, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, actor's life, lifestyle, nightlife, culture clash ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
czechoslovakia, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in ...
Style:
historical drama, period drama
Plot:
post war, worker, factory, stalinism, frustration, betrayal, blue collar, labor movement, quarrel, river, machine, tragic event ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, post world war two
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, soviet union, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it ...
Style:
sensual, historical drama, tension, suspense, period drama
Plot:
revenge, jealousy, betrayal, seduction, desire, passion, manipulation, independent woman, femme fatale, robbery, love triangle, urban ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
berlin germany, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In the frontier village Vetrov boys from the children's home called Indians lead a bitter "war" with the local Símáks. Before a battle the Indians have a meeting in the sandpit with a smoke signaling. The smoke brings to the sandpit ...
Plot:
friendship, dog, children, innocence, boyhood, animal, compassion, police dog, determination, empathy, loyalty, small town ...
Time:
70s
Place:
czechoslovakia
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77
Genre: Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, art house, sensual
Plot:
teenager, adolescence, coming of age, first love, intimate, divorce, bittersweet, identity, seduction, taboo, eroticism, love ...
Time:
70s
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the face of insurmountable odds, one man will risk everything to take back his country. Czechoslovakia, 1943, and the world is enveloped by the dark clouds of war. Showing unimaginable bravery, a Jewish teenager manages to escape the clutches of ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, student film
Plot:
football, nazi occupation, brother brother relationship, football player, christian, monastery, world war, dictatorship, dictator, soccer, partisan, boy ...
Place:
slovakia, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
TV show
Story:
The mini-series are inspired by the real, albeit incredibly terrifying, events and actions that Ivan Roubal committed in the 1990s. Hynek Čermák is in the role of one of the biggest serial killers in Czechoslovak history.
Style:
poliziottesco, detective, period piece
Plot:
serial killer, advocate, trial, female lawyer, killer, true crime, criminal, teamwork, police detective, investigator, murder investigation, police investigator ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, prague
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