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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a villager is injured by a car at a party, firefighter Brona is immediately convinced that it is an attack perpetrated by an “Arab”. His colleague Standa sees things differently. A laconic film that explores the causes of racism.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
racism, xenophobia, prejudice, firefighter, social problems, lifestyle, satire, social issues, realism, ethical dilemma, mistrust, small town ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Netherlands, France, Canada
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Doblin's text to 2015 Berlin to tell the story of 30-year-old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat which crossed the Mediterranean illegally. Without citizenship papers, Francis is drawn into the underbelly of the city.
Style:
captivating, psychological, epic, touching, intense ...
Plot:
mistress, gay interest, drug dealer, refugee, lgbt, family relations, society, starting over, redemption, city life, hopes, lifestyle ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, central europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
After the centenarian Trudy’s death, her inheritors refuse the scheming mayor’s bid to buy her lakeside estate for a car lot and instead set about renovating the allegedly haunted villa. Their plans, already complicated by the village ...
Style:
lighthearted, pastoral, feel good, romantic comedy, slapstick ...
Plot:
village life, everyday life, renovation, fish out of water, culture clash, satire, social satire, social commentary, grandmother, gossip, czech village, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
czech republic, central europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Action - The body of Dr. Charles Berens, Chief of the United Nations Medical Relief Organization, is seen hurtling from the lofty parapet of an ancient church. He has chosen death rather than capitulate to his murderous pursuers. Police chief ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, twisted, noir ...
Plot:
female whipping, intrigue, conspiracy, murder, mysterious death, spy thriller, espionage, pursuit, betrayal, suspicion, hidden treasure, secret code ...
Time:
60s
Place:
central europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers with horror that the filmmakers have completely bypassed his intention - instead of a probe into the life of a contemporary village, they are ...
Style:
satirical, meta, parody, black comedy, period piece
Plot:
film industry, irony, satire, social commentary, behind the scenes, village, media manipulation, village life, bureaucracy, culture clash, farce, political satire ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone else? Det. Tony Rossini investigates, along with Larry "Cash" Carter, a theatre director ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, grim, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
murder mystery, anti semitism, investigation, whodunit, suspicion, justice, resistance, political intrigue, conspiracy, cover up, ethical dilemma, urban ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938
Place:
central europe, europe, germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Story:
The story begins where the first film ended: the gossip-monger Mrs. Horácková (Jana Synková) runs out from her house to greet the young hockey players who have come to visit their friend and teammate in a nearby cottage. Horácková immediately ...
Style:
light hearted, situational comedy, sitcom, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
gossip, mayor, village life, matchmaking, small town, farce, mistaken identity, revenge, satire, jealousy, nun, marijuana ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
czech republic, central europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Godfather's story is the story of the greatest of Czech post-revolutionary 'entrepreneurs'. His activities often crossed the edge of the law, and his life ended bullet assassin.
Style:
captivating, intense, political thriller, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
corruption, organized crime, justice, fighting the system, fight for justice, corrupt politician, political corruption, political intrigue, fighting crime, politics, political unrest, showdown ...
Time:
90s
Place:
czech republic, central europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Serbia, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep ...
Style:
melancholic, poignant, atmospheric, tragicomedy, period piece ...
Plot:
father son relationship, memory, family drama, madness, loneliness, childhood, identity, sadness, nostalgia, intimate, humiliation, dream ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
central europe, balkan
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Genre: Action, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After the Hungarian army was annihilated by the Mongols at the battle of Mohi, only the castle of Esztergom stood in the Mongolians' way of invading the rest of Europe. Batu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, reaches the walls of Esztergom ...
Style:
epic, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
priest, mongol empire, medieval, battles, moral dilemma, downfall, army, heroism, faith, strategy, leadership, political intrigue ...
Time:
13th century
Place:
hungary, central europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan Hus didn't even get warm in Constance, let alone burn up? What if Jan Zizka had more than one ...
Style:
parody, light, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nobleman, intrigue, czech history, satire, alternate history, irreverent, revisionist history, farce, political satire, anti hero, dark humor, mistaken identity ...
Time:
15th century, 14th century, middle ages
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
This loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness follows Robert Klein as he sets out to find his brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Style:
allegory, existential, art house, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
colonialism, culture clash, journey, adaptation, white supremacy, environmentalism, moral ambiguity, self discovery, male protagonist, darkness, identity, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
central 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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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
The series entitled Capek's Pockets represents a novel and unique student project in which talented young directors and experienced scriptwriters came together to produced their rendering of Tales from One Pocket and Tales from the Other Pocket ...
Style:
anthology, satirical, captivating, detective, psychological ...
Plot:
literary, crime investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, forensics, investigation, private detective, satire, sleuth, police investigation, social satire, irony ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, prague
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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, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a small Czech town, mother dependent Robert, his attractive girlfriend Simona, histrionic Tomas and extremely reserved History freak Funes, all dissatisfied with their lives, are members of the same string Quartet. As they rehearse for their next ...
Style:
light hearted, absurd
Plot:
musician, rehearsal, concert, friendship, small town, slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, provincial life, identity, introvert, family conflict ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The aging Eszter clarify outstanding relationship.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, love and romance, life turned upside down, hopes, society, estrangement, destiny, misfit, estate, female protagonist, lost love, heartbreak ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
hungary, central europe, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.
Style:
psychological, surreal, dark, art house, dread ...
Plot:
body horror, literary, adaptation, alienation, transformation, isolation, insect, nightmare, existentialism, claustrophobia, family drama, identity crisis ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Czech high diver's Olympic dreams are shattered when she suffers a devastating injury while training. Forced to leave the sport she loves, she follows a photographer friend into the world of nude modeling, ultimately reinventing herself as an ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
porn industry, new job, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, accident, swimming pool, athlete, swimmer, sister sister relationship, porn star, female athlete, gender issues ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.
Style:
saga, suspense, exciting, spy action, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
007, espionage, cold war, soviet afghanistan war, desert, cello, assassin, secret service, secret agent, deception, british secret service, cia agent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
vienna, britain, soviet union, central europe, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his ...
Style:
gothic horror, sexy, satanic, scary, stylized ...
Plot:
vampire, sister sister relationship, curses spells and rituals, twins, twin sister, burned at the stake, female nudity, identical twins, nudity, satanic cult, puritan, orphan ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century, 17th century, 16th century ...
Place:
central europe, europe, austria
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school ...
Style:
independent film, dark comedy, tragicomedy, humorous, cynical ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, nothing goes right, social satire, paranoia, loner, alienation, burnout, obsessive compulsive disorder, neurosis, longing, solitude, teacher ...
Time:
year 2002, middle ages
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, warsaw poland, poland
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Genre: Drama, Horror, War
Country: Poland, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the ...
Style:
perverse, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
concentration camp, bully, world war two, dog, holocaust, killed by a dog, dog training, escape, bullying, soldier, escape attempt, rape ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
europe, central europe, germany, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, erotic, rough, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
lgbt, gay, coming of age, lgbtq, gay teenager, friendship, rejection, gay lead character, gay interest, gay sex, gay friend, gay brother ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing ...
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
time travel, world war two, death of brother, conspiracy, twin brother, brother brother relationship, nazism, secret, boss, bomb, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 1996, year 1944, 90s ...
Place:
germany, central europe, europe, prague, czech republic ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The budding sexual urges of young women cause themselves and others trouble.
Style:
anthology, teen sex comedy, sex comedy, freeze frame, sexploitation film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
virgin, lesbianism, erotic dance, nudity, female sexual predator, seductive girl, teenage girl, teenage sexuality, orgasm, voyeurism, exhibitionism, lesbian ...
Place:
central europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Luka leaves for the countryside unhappy with the way his girlfriend Katarina has treated him. She follows him hoping that they could sort out their relationship. Despite the beauty and tranquillity of their surroundings they go through twists and ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, love, child, photography, rural setting, friendship, soldier, countryside, landscape, river, abortion, longing ...
Place:
slovenia, central europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
Style:
emotional, factual, visually stunning, slasher, social ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, conspiracy, gestapo, murderer, assassination, betrayal, nazi occupation, friendship between men, ss, suspicion, repression ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, year 2016, 90s, y2k ...
Place:
germany, prague, central europe, munich germany, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After she's diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sentimental, rom com, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
holiday, terminal illness, vacation, female protagonist, food, cooking, quitting a job, human nature, black woman, hotel, love and romance, restaurant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
central europe, indiana, czech republic, austria, europe ...
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