Movies and TV shows set in prague – page 4

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Tyranny (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Tyranny is an American drama and political thriller web series that premiered on March 11, 2010 on KoldCast TV. Written and directed by John Beck Hofmann, the series is centered on a man who, after volunteering for a neurological experiment at UC ...
Plot: propaganda, coincidence, brain, brainwashing, illusion, illuminati, game, underground, surveillance, flash forward, resistance, mathematics ...
Place: prague
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And Next Year at Balaton (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: East Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. But Ines’s narrow-minded parents intervene and insist that the young couple joins the family vacation. Problems arise, so everyone ends up traveling ...
Style: freeze frame, crying, road movie
Audience: kids
Plot: public nudity, male full rear nudity, female nudity, father daughter relationship, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, socialism, hitchhiker, socialist, on the road ...
Place: bulgaria, europe, berlin germany, east germany, prague ...
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The Roubal Case (2021)
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: detective, poliziottesco, period piece
Plot: serial killer, advocate, redhead, police operation, criminal, murderer, police investigator, czech history, police detective, killer, female lawyer, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe, prague
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 3K
Charlatan (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Ireland, Slovakia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The breathtaking story of a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
Style: non-linear, contemplative, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, healer, lgbt, diagnosis, politics, arrested, gay lead character, gay interest, mistrust, traumatized man ...
Time: year 1935, 1950s, year 1942, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: central europe, prague
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Havel (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story: It's the summer of '68 and the young Czech playwright Vaclav Havel is enjoying the heady atmosphere of new- found freedom as the iron grip of Soviet repression gradually loosens throughout Central Europe. In Havel's Prague, politics ...
Style: non-linear, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: playwright, czech history, lifestyle change, political activist, fight, rivals, jail, friendship between men, husband wife relationship, communist, conscience, revolution ...
Time: year 1977, 80s, 70s, year 1968, year 1989 ...
Place: prague, central europe
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 2K
Je Suis Karl (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After most of her family is murdered in a terrorist bombing, a young woman is unknowingly lured into joining the very group that killed them.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: terrorist plot, terrorism, neo fascism, rebellious youth, terrorist group, youth, power struggle, social problems, terrorist attack, fight for supremacy, youth gang, terrorist ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, central europe, prague ...
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Lousy Bastards (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two brothers got separated after their first love for the same girl. Richard Rohan is an ex-soldier taking care of his two daughters living in a small town. His brother Mikulas Rohan is a neurosurgery expert living in the capital. Both of them have ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: brother brother relationship, soldier, infidelity, adultery, doctor, surgeon, womanizer, death of mother, war in afghanistan, bare chested male, alcoholism, public nudity ...
Place: afghanistan, prague
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they ...
Style: surreal, metafiction
Plot: filmmaking, renaissance, film history, dream, filmmaker, reenactment, theatre audience
Time: pre world war one, turn of the century, 1900s
Place: eastern europe, prague
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The Confession (1970)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Style: political, political thriller, cynical, sad, thought provoking ...
Plot: politics, communism, dictatorship, dictator, spy, anti communist, cold war, prison, protest, worker, espionage, radical ...
Time: year 1970, 1950s, year 1968, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: france, czechoslovakia, czech republic, soviet union, central europe ...
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Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II's tide is turning toward the Allies, apprentice train-watcher Milos is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is obsessed with having his first sexual experience. Despite the favors of ...
Style: atmospheric, talky, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, satire, resistance, storytelling, politics, occupation, communism, village life, wartime life, partisan, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1966, 1930s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, europe, czechoslovakia, prague ...
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Circus World (1964)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.
Style: serious, realistic, epic
Plot: circus, cowboy, carnival, redheaded woman, battles, family relations, starting over, single parent, love and romance, parents and children, love affair, winter ...
Time: 60s, 1910s
Place: europe, copenhagen, new york, prague, barcelona ...
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Modelar (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Droneman is about Chemist and Fly Navigator Pavel and his friend Bussinessman and free time Rapper Plech. Pavel has strong sense of justice and wishes to fix wrongs with the World while Plech dreams about Big money and secure life. Their common ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, intense, melancholic ...
Plot: war crime, professor, university, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, terrorism, adultery, election, brother sister relationship, singer, bomb, lecture, journalist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: central europe, tel aviv israel, prague
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Stuck with a Perfect Woman (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to start anew without his financial support. Eliska starts ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, humorous, captivating, crying
Plot: secret, neighbor, husband wife relationship, doctor, painting, nurse, school, motorcycle, death, husband wife conflict, roommate, old man ...
Place: europe, czech republic, prague, central europe
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The Secret of an Old Attic (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Croatia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
Style: psychotronic, crying, detective
Plot: coming of age, brother sister relationship, friendship between boys, boy, car trunk, spying, cannon, photography, carriage, news reporter, scotsman, locked door ...
Place: prague
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The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.
Plot: world war two, fencing, nazi, third reich, radio station, world war, false evidence, police officer, sniper, pharmacist, nazi officer, nazi occupation ...
Time: pre world war two, year 1939, year 1938, 1930s
Place: germany, prague, berlin germany, munich germany, poland ...
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A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
Genre: Comedy, 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, psychotronic, dark comedy, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: machine, domestic drama, bare chested male, reporter, restaurant, lie, interview, police, teenage boy, baby, on the run, prison ...
Place: czechoslovakia, prague, central europe, czech republic
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The Limping Devil (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking ...
Style: psychotronic, modern day adaptation, urban fantasy
Plot: time travel, flexing muscles, fireman, psychiatric hospital, dwarf, deal with the devil, car crash, breaking the fourth wall, madhouse, card playing, police officer, house fire ...
Place: prague
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Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Karel Bursík, as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father, a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children hoping they would escape a country poverty. He soon threw his daughter Vera out of home; he did ...
Plot: economist, renaissance, unfaithfulness, sex, brother brother relationship, voyeurism, suburbs, family relations, grape, brother brother conflict, father daughter relationship, memory ...
Time: 1930s
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague
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Deckname Holec (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Young director Honza David (Krystof Hádek) films the Russian invasion in in Prague in August 1968. With Eva (Vica Kerekes) - the love of his life - he tries to get out of the country. He wants to bring the explosive material to Vienna, to the ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: spy, secret mission, blackmail, actress, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle, double agent, secret agent, mission, secret service, agent, spy mission ...
Time: 60s, year 1968
Place: vienna, prague, central europe, czechoslovakia
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How to Shake Off a Bride (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Story: Eva, the owner of a pastry shop hopes to re-unite with her ex-husband Honza, with whom she has a son Tobias. Honza surprises Eva with the request for a wedding cake. He is planning to marry Linda, his new girlfriend. Eva and Tobias don't like ...
Style: humorous, captivating, sincere, semi serious, freeze frame ...
Plot: wedding, fiance fiancee relationship, love triangle, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, rivalry, fake identity, psychological manipulation, manipulative woman, intrigue, family relations, strong female character, wedding ceremony ...
Place: prague
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Gangster Ka (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A film based on a book by Jaroslav Kmenta tells the story of a mafioso who got rich by tax fraud of billions of crowns in transactions with petroleum products and who later tried to gain control of the state-owned petroleum concern. The main ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, detective
Plot: gangster, father son relationship, murder, prison, lawyer, judge, police, trial, assault, money, exploitation, court ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, prague, czech republic
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In Your Dreams! (2016)
Genre: Family, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Only a few girls practice the art of parkour – running and somersaulting over rooftops, free-climbing up rusted scaffolding and leaping from one wall to the next. Laura takes it all in her stride. Though as she wildly races through the streets of ...
Style: romantic, sincere, serious, captivating
Plot: teenage girl, parkour, unrequited love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teen romance, mother daughter relationship, imagination, teenage crush, teenage boy, dream, family relations, father daughter relationship ...
Place: prague
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Devil's Mistress (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A film about the black-and-white era actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair.
Style: captivating, suspense, touching, disturbing, meta ...
Plot: nazism, world war two, nazi, love triangle, ambition, actress, mistress, intrigue, husband wife relationship, selfishness, dictator, filmmaking ...
Time: 1940s, year 1935, year 2000, year 1937, 20th century ...
Place: berlin germany, czechoslovakia, switzerland, czech republic, germany ...
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Photographer (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story is freely inspired by the life and work of Jan Saudek, who is probably the most well-known Czech photographer internationally and has indisputably been involved in the development of international photography. He has exhibited and sold his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, crying
Plot: photographer, photograph, photography, ambition, husband wife relationship, betrayal, drunkenness, womanizer, drug addict, rehabilitation, father son relationship, interview ...
Time: 90s
Place: czech republic, prague
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Lost in Munich (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Sir "P" a 90 year old gray parrot, formerly living with Edouard Daladier, the French prime minister responsible for signing the Munich Treaty, comes to Prague to give his "account" of the past events. But can he do it, being just ...
Style: non-linear, sincere, humorous, captivating, tense ...
Plot: parrot, chase, journalist, interview, world war two, czech german relations, friendship, bird, talking bird, affair, irony, funeral ...
Time: year 2008, year 1938, 2000s
Place: central europe, prague
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Family Film (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, France, Slovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ...
Style: sincere, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, poignant ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: lost dog, brother sister relationship, dog, vacation, teenage boy, family relations, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, shipwreck, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Place: central europe, prague
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...and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Jewish doctor helps a political fugitive during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Style: experimental, surreal, neo noir, expressionism, freeze frame
Plot: world war two, holocaust, surrealism, mental disorder, foreign legion, legion, colonialism, psychiatric patient, psychiatric hospital, informant, mental institution, hiding place ...
Place: prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Men in Hope (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Charming bon vivant Rudolf is convinced that infidelity is the basis for a happy marriage, since, after all, a woman does not want to be bored with her partner.
Style: humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, erotic ...
Plot: sex, love and romance, family problems, womanizer, seductress, infidelity, couple relations, dishonesty, couples, erotica, female nudity, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, europe, prague
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Up and Down (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are ...
Style: realistic, psychological, semi serious, clever, humorous ...
Plot: racism, immigrant, family relations, adoption, parents and children, terminal illness, youth, dealing with death, couple relations, love and romance, society, black market ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: balkan, eastern europe, czech republic, burma, prague ...
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The Annunciation (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Annunciation (in Hungarian: Angyali üdvözlet) is a Hungarian film directed by András Jeles in 1984, based on The Tragedy of Man (1861) by Imre Madách. When Adam (Péter Bocsor) and Eve (Júlia Mérő), having succumbed to Lucifer's ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: bible, children, devil, symbolism, philosophy, angel, coming of age, religions or cults, heroes, obsessive quest, ancient history, time ...
Time: 18th century
Place: ancient greece, france, athens greece, paris france, prague ...
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