Movies and TV shows set in czech republic – page 5

List of movies set in czech republic

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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
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, claymation, cult classic, psychedelic, adult animation ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: giant bird, trippy, european, psychology, spacesuit, moon, palace, steampunk, baron, beauty, princess, turkish army ...
Place: czechoslovakia, czech republic, constantinople
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Happy End (1967)
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: experimental, black comedy, absurd, avant garde, psychotronic ...
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, modernism, swing, domestic drama, tragic romance, funeral, prison, absurdism, murder, corpse, wedding ...
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe, czech republic
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Fruit of Paradise (1970)
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: surreal, art house, avant garde, erotic, psychedelic ...
Plot: adam and eve, surrealism, trippy, renaissance, sisters, modernism, woman, garden, sister, swamp, manipulative behavior, misandry ...
Time: year 1970
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic
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Men about Town (1969)
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 ...
Plot: swindle, con men, adultery, library
Place: czechoslovakia, prague, czech republic
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
Genre: Comedy, 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, dark comedy, spoof, raunchy comedy ...
Plot: post apocalypse, distopia, time travel, surrealism, love story, dystopia, time machine, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, woman rapes man, time paradox, kidnapping, disguise ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, future, 1910s
Place: central europe, czechoslovakia, prague, czech republic
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You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti ...
Style: dark comedy, psychotronic, surreal, absurd, spoof ...
Plot: fictitious kingdom, female nudity, switching bodies, astrologer, prophet, actress, brain, brain transplant, king, absurdism, human brain, conspirator ...
Place: central europe, czech republic
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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer ...
Style: dark comedy, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, poliziottesco, metafiction ...
Plot: multiple deaths, sneeze, romantic rivalry, police investigator, police operation, reputation, newspaper editor, irony of fate, doctor, overheard conversation, absurd humor, absurdism ...
Place: czech republic
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a ...
Style: fairy tale, surreal, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: innocence, teenage girl, magic realism, folk horror, coming of age, surrealism, supernatural, menstruation, wedding night, occult, seductive behavior, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 1970, near future, 19th century
Place: central europe, eastern europe, czech republic
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The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
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, coming of age, supernatural, mythology, owl, human becomes animal, insane asylum, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, new student, inn ...
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe, czech republic
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The Kerosene Lamps (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 101 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: crying
Plot: renaissance, wedding ceremony, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, marriage, unhappy marriage, officer, groom, spinster, nun, illness, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time: year 1900, turn of the century, 1900s
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe, czech republic
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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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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students ...
Plot: school, student, father son relationship, employer employee relationship, awkward situation, prank, bribery, husband wife relationship, prankster, classmate classmate relationship, rivalry, old man ...
Place: balkan, czech republic
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The Marco Effect (2021)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The thriller 'Marco effect' is a new film about the special unit of the police, Department Q, based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's fifth book in the crime series.
Style: suspenseful, tense, sincere, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: runaway, police, police detective, criminal, danger, uncle nephew relationship, youth, police commissioner, escapades, organized crime, family relations, fighting crime ...
Place: europe, denmark, central europe, czech republic
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The Pleasure Principle (2019)
Genre: Crime
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, Russia
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: Mysterious murders has been committed in four post-communist cities: Warsaw, Prague, Odesa, and Leipzig. The investigations are carried out by three absolutely different in many aspects criminal police officers. Independently of one another, they ...
Style: detective, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, killer on the loose, investigator, killing spree, police investigator, murder, twists and turns, police officer, murder investigation, dishonesty, investigation ...
Place: prague, ukraine, poland, odessa ukraine, central europe ...
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Zlo?in v Poln? (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
TV show
Story: An exciting drama from a detective history. In 1899 a dead girl - seamstress Anežka Hrůzová - was found between the village of Věžnička and the town of Polná. She was 19 and she had a cutting wound on the throat. There was no sexual violence ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: murder, murder investigation, trial, courtroom drama, false accusation, husband wife relationship, judge, lawyer, true crime, murder suspect, conspiracy theory, courtroom ...
Time: 1910s
Place: central europe, czech republic
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Snow in August (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style: touching, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: youth, culture clash, friendship, racism, bittersweet, human spirit, life is a bitch, injustice, haunted by the past, gang, rabbi, anti semitism ...
Place: new york, czech republic
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In the Shadow (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The ...
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, police investigation, fighting the system, political intrigue, police detective, political unrest, law enforcement, dishonesty, political conspiracy, cold war, secret service, working class ...
Time: 50s, 1920s
Place: europe, prague, central europe, czech republic
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Adelheid (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when ...
Style: surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: world war two, military, forbidden love, holocaust, girl, locomotive, forest, comeback, post war, estate, soldier, society ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, germany, czech republic
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Somewhere Only We Know (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jin Ying is currently experiencing two of life’s most depressing moments: She is jilted by her fiancé, and her loving grandmother passes away. Heartbroken, she decides to visit the European city of Prague, and hopes to use the time to heal her ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, uplifting, humorous, touching ...
Plot: womanizer, parents and children, grandparent grandchild relationship, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, love affair, fiance fiancee relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, romanticism, interracial relations, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, prague, czech republic
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Fair Play (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, touching
Plot: female athlete, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, family relations, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, contests and competitions, society, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century, year 1984
Place: czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic
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Armageddon (1997)
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The world's ten most influential scientists are being mysteriously killed, one by one, spontaneously combusted, microwaved to death, or otherwise. Another scientist, software prodigy Dr. Ken, searches for clues to these bizarre happenings only ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, scary
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: ghost, violent content, save the world, prodigy, supernatural ability, rivalry, race against time, imaginary, danger, supernatural, chaos, secret movement ...
Place: china, prague, hong kong, czech republic
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Canone inverso - Making Love (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the ...
Style: emotional, touching, captivating, serious, period piece ...
Plot: fall in love, friendship, world war two, love affair, violinist, holocaust, musician's life, violin, family relations, destiny, love and romance, musician ...
Time: 20th century
Place: prague, europe, czech republic
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The Amateur (1981)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
Style: political thriller, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: espionage, spy, revenge, law enforcement, secret mission, hostage, politics, intrigue, murder, violent content, secret agent, rivalry ...
Time: year 1981, 20th century, 80s
Place: europe, italy, prague, central europe, eastern europe ...
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Early Works (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of morale, their revolution fails and the girl ...
Style: black and white, biting, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: revolution, black, protest, revolutionary, politics, feminism, sexual content, coming of age, youth, state affairs, society, rebellion ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: slovakia, balkan, former yugoslavia, europe, czech republic
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The Ear (1970)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf'), and the resolution is worse ...
Style: political, cult classic, serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: communism, spy, night, renaissance, totalitarian regime, modernism, suspicion, election, totalitarianism, promotion, family problems, couples ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague, russia, czech republic
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Combat! (1962)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as ...
Style: retro, serious, realistic, vintage
Plot: world war two, military, world war, tank, mission, american soldier, soldier, us military, infantrymen, anti war, navy, d day ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, prague, france, czech republic
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Intimate Lighting (1965)
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: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: modernism, renaissance, exodus, villa, classmate, musician, funeral, small town, gay subtext, bittersweet, musician's life, music ...
Time: year 1965, 20th century, 60s
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czech republic
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Bitter Sugar (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Dominican Republic, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A patriot (René Lavan) with a rebellious brother falls in love with a dissident's daughter (Mayte Vilán) in Castro's Cuba.
Style: black and white, realistic, serious, tense, crying
Plot: revolution, hotel, politics, drinking, cuban revolution, communist, assassin, death, prostitute, kids in trouble, political unrest, love affair ...
Place: cuba, latin america, miami, florida, usa ...
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Slumming (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two yuppies play mean tricks on one another until one joke has fatal consequences.
Style: semi serious, bleak, realistic, humorous, cynical
Plot: life is a bitch, prank, buddies, misfit, power relations, disorder, love and romance, society, fall in love, social misfits, friends, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, indonesia, europe, czech republic
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Empties (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, dishonesty, hopes, starting over, couple relations, friends, family relations, couples, friendship, parents and children, teacher, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, balkan, prague, europe, czech republic
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