| The Lure (2015) | 6.2 | |
| The Labyrinth (2015) | 7.4 | |
| Major Case Squad (2014) | 8.5 | |
| Head Burst (2019) | 7.1 | |
| Restore Point (2023) | 6.1 |
Movies and TV shows set in central europe – page 5
Best films
New films
| Her Drunken Diary (2024) | 6.2 | |
| Terezín (2023) | 5.8 | |
| Miki (2024) | 6.6 | |
| Orphan (2025) | 6.6 | |
| Invalid (2023) | 7.2 |
List of movies set in central europe
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of a boy whose desire to correct human vices was stronger than the power of hell itself. Apolena, a herbalist, finds an abandoned newborn baby in a rye field. She names him Rye and raises him into a brave young man. Rye is recruited into the ...
Style:
psychotronic, fairy tale, visually appealing, captivating, light ...
Plot:
teenage protagonist, friendship, little boy, baby, supernatural power, rivalry, greed, countryside, boy, voice over narration, money, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The king Dalimil and the queen Eliska waited to see a longed-for offspring - a daughter Ruzenka. But Eliska's envious and bad sister Melánie curses her. When Ruzenka becomes 17 years old she will prick her finger and she will fall asleep for ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic comedy, costume drama, psychotronic, period drama
Plot:
queen, princess, sleeping beauty, curse, fictional kingdom, 17 year old, master servant relationship, teenager, nobleman, teenage boy, noblewoman, rivals ...
Place:
central europe, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The girlfriend of a beatnik-hippy artist enjoys having her body painted, posing naked for her boyfriend and seducing other men.
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, freeze frame, raunchy comedy, sexploitation film
Plot:
sexploitation, erotica, hippie, sex, seduction, photograph, carriage, debt, love triangle, lower class, landlady, striptease ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
central europe, europe, munich germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Gerard, Mara and Jiri are addicted to heroin. The trio's struggle to kick the habit is more complicated than they expected. And then something happens that changes everything.
Style:
psychotronic, crying, dark comedy, independent film
Plot:
drug addiction, mysterious event, doppelganger, cottage, addiction, breakup, dogma, attic, junkie, heroin, jealousy, multiple outcomes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
central europe, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young Prince Velen , who is left in charge of the castle and his three sisters. During the night he has a ...
Style:
fairy tale, costume drama, psychotronic, period drama
Audience:
kids
Plot:
shapeshifter, princess, prince, king, wizard, slavic mythology, mythology, fictitious kingdom, warlock, werewolf, shape shifting, father son relationship ...
Place:
central europe, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The story of a young woman who takes it upon herself to save her brothers and rid them of a curse which they were put under by their mother.
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, captivating, sincere, psychotronic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
bossy woman, curse, marriage proposal, sibling relationship, secret, strong female character, dysfunctional family, queen, dark secret, magic, manipulation, manipulative woman ...
Place:
czech republic, europe, central europe
Is relevant?
538
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
drunken teenager, mother daughter conflict, beach party, teenage love, obsession, teenage life, youth, high school life, revenge, jealousy, coming of age, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
poland, europe, central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the ...
Style:
sexy, psychedelic, erotic, sexual, independent film ...
Plot:
motorcycle, sex, bike, crazy love, on the road, biker gang, female nudity, female pubic hair, bare breasts, tragic romance, outdoor sex, sexual attraction ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
germany, france, europe, central europe, switzerland
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"Young, dumb and full of love!" is a hilarious comedy about sex, love and youth. What happens when a clumsy teenage boy meets the woman of his dreams? A woman who's a little bit older, a little bit married, and a little bit unfaithful ...
Style:
homoerotic, sex comedy, raunchy comedy, crying, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
older woman younger man sex, homoeroticism, horniness, rapist, fetishist, hotel, overweight woman, arrogance, manipulative woman, reception, old woman, voyeurism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold ...
Style:
allegory
Plot:
renaissance, community, panic, rural setting, czech village, rumor, public nudity, gang rape, anxiety, train, rape, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
eastern europe, central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Style:
surreal, compassionate, lyrical, uplifting, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, survival, idealism, couples, nazi occupation, human spirit, self discovery, against humanity, wartime life, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945
Place:
eastern europe, germany, poland, balkan, czech republic ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The top-secret project, which Kazma and his team have been working on for over 4 years, enters cinemas for the first time ever as ONEMANSHOW in feature-length format.
Plot:
one-man show, heist, delusion, blackmail, deception, delusional man, circus, sociopath, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, narcissist, criminal, narcissism ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
It follows young alchemist Amélie as she acquires a magical power: partially influencing the flow of time. But she is split in time, and Amélie from the present meets Améliw from the past, who accompanies her every step of the way.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, semi serious, fairy tale, suspenseful ...
Plot:
magic, alchemist, female protagonist, time paradox, manipulation, lookalikes, time warp, wizards and magicians, princess, magical, alchemy, magical girl ...
Place:
central europe
Is relevant?
222
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story:
Four episodes reveal criminal background of organized crime in post-revolution Czechoslovakia. Who can you trust yet?
Czechoslovakia in 1992 - communist regime has fallen short time ago and soviet occupying army is quickly retreating back to ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, tense, visually appealing ...
Plot:
spy, czech history, multiple deaths, deception, conspiracy, death, race against time, murderer, politics, manipulative person, criminal, organized crime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
europe, central europe, czechoslovakia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
To win back his girlfriend after an unfortunate misunderstanding, a hopeless romantic decides to recreate grand gestures from famous movies.
Style:
touching, psychological, humorous, talky, crying ...
Plot:
boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend conflict, socially awkward, secretly observing, jealous boyfriend, jealousy, shop owner, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love triangle, jealous man, manipulative person, seductive behavior ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
prague, europe, central europe
Is relevant?
561
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Frank Banner used to specialize in helping Soviet spies defect safely to the West. Banner's wife was shot to death aiding such an escape. Now, with the Cold War over, Banner is called upon to safely escort an ex-K.G.B. man who is wanted dead by ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, undercover, on the run, tough heroes, secret agent, rivalry, law enforcement, vengeance, danger, haunted by the past, working undercover, spy ...
Time:
year 1989, 90s, 80s
Place:
europe, hungary, vienna, central europe, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes ...
Plot:
male nudity, based on real people, nudity, italian history, music, biopic, music composer, mozart, wealth, male pubic hair, bare chested male, musician ...
Time:
18th century, 1770s
Place:
venice, central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
family secret, murder, parents and children, estate, losing-it hero, danger, mentally unstable, siblings relations, manipulation, life is a bitch, curses spells and rituals, secret ...
Time:
year 1972, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
germany, europe, central europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
TV show
Story:
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s.
Each episode encompasses one year, and ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, suspense, tense, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, political propaganda, police procedural, cold war, law and order, urban, corruption, biopic, communist propaganda, social commentary, moral ambiguity, police investigator ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 1950s
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague, central europe
Is relevant?
252
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation ...
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, existential, melancholic, allegory ...
Plot:
chancellor, retirement, political satire, character study, social commentary, bureaucracy, legacy, isolation, eviction, loneliness, bittersweet, public humiliation ...
Place:
central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their ...
Style:
art house, apocalyptic, psychotronic, crying, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
post-apocalyptic future, post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, distopia, surrealism, apocalypse, bombing, nuclear bomb, european, wasteland ...
Time:
near future, distant future
Place:
eastern europe, central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The son of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, Crown Prince Rudolf, is believed to have shot his female lover and himself in a tragic suicide pact in 1882 in Mayerling. Due to Imperial cover-ups, the full story may never be known. This story has been ...
Style:
erotic, eros, manga, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, sexual freedom, hermaphrodite, sex with a maid, sodomy, exhibitionism, sex with brother, illicit affair, eroticism, affair, moving, repression ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
austria, europe, central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
beer, renaissance, female nudity, nudity, provincial life, drinking, punishment, nude girl, modernism, family relations, small town, pregnancy ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1910s, pre world war one
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
circus, magic realism, renaissance, adultery, wine, young woman, magic, military officer, summer, bittersweet, friendship, rich and poor ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1920s
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Way Out tells a story of a young Romani couple, Zaneta and David, the parents of little Janicka. Their efforts to live a decent and dignified life run up against the "Romani social trap," which is racism, the society's prejudices, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
couples, gypsy, racism, family relations, unemployment, life is a bitch, realism, family problems, social misfits, couple relations, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, touching, black comedy ...
Plot:
nudity, peeping, female nudity, renaissance, bride and groom, nude girl, election, international relations, satire, politics, love of one's life, wedding ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, europe, prague ...
Is relevant?
260
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human.
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot:
loneliness, collector, tragic romance, priest in love, unrequited love, secret, fish out of water, love triangle, supernatural power, mythology, murder, hiding place ...
Time:
1830s, 19th century
Place:
central europe, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The detective story set in the early 20th century is full of suspense, twists and emotions. Love, hate and desire for revenge are the strongest motivation for the trio of its protagonists. Military trenches are still full of war victims when ...
Style:
suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological, suspense, esoteric ...
Plot:
suspect, mystery woman, police detective, investigation, strong female character, femme fatale, ritual, serial murder, murder mystery, mentally unstable, mother daughter relationship, murder ...
Time:
1910s, year 1915
Place:
central europe, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Russia, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Harvie is a smart but a bit too lively boy with one ambition, to finish the last level of his computer game. Once in the Gamers Hall of Fame, his absent-minded father, would finally be proud of him. But finishing the game turns out to be only the ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
museum, computer game, adventure hero, child, game, fantasy world, dream world, satire, father son relationship, dog, boy, girl ...
Place:
central europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, educational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coping, youth, rebelliousness, high school life, teachers and students, teenage life, social relations, power relations, coming of age, creepy child, psychoanalyst, undisciplined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia, central europe
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