Best Czechoslovak Movies – page 2
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: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera. He is also an obsessed opera fan, ...
Style:
surreal, spoof, gothic horror, gothic, cult classic ...
Plot:
renaissance, mad scientist, mountain, opera singer, castle, opera, inventor, servant, invention, collector, eccentricity, diva ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
eastern europe, czech republic, europe, central europe
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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: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Style:
parody, witty, cult classic, twisted, fast paced ...
Plot:
bar fight, abstinence, marketing, modernism, acid, danger, good versus evil, heroes, save the day, goofy hero, rescue, escapades ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
czech republic, prague, europe, arizona
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
Style:
political thriller, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, paratrooper, parachutist, man on a mission, czech history, swordplay, cycling, shootout, woods, horse riding, hiding place ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1941, 1940s
Place:
czech republic, prague, berlin germany, central europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can color people, according to their nature and mood. The grown-ups of the village consider the cat to be dangerous, but the kids ...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, allegory, psychedelic, experimental ...
Plot:
cat, surrealism, modernism, magic realism, circus, renaissance, magician, taxidermy, soul, metaphor, bird, magic show ...
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, central europe
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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: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Style:
thought provoking, avant garde, contemplative, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, boy girl relationship, renaissance, adolescence, parent child relationship, youth, shoplifting, smoking, teenage boy, teenager in love, daydreamer, boys and girls ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.
Style:
road movie, dark
Plot:
revenge, world war two, renaissance, soldier, burial, forest, tree, hatchet, wounded, wartime life, night, horse ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a white postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka. This is a poetic story, a mosaic of the playful world springing from the wild imagination of the ...
Plot:
gypsy, magic realism, renaissance, first love, bare chested male, pregnancy, rabbit, postman, marriage, pigeon, train, white rabbit ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, psychotronic, costume drama
Plot:
mythology, aristocrat, wedding, family relations, stuttering, teen romance, boat, teenager, cell, jail cell, intrigue, nobleman ...
Place:
czechoslovakia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!
Style:
slapstick, absurd, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy ...
Plot:
dream, superhero, mad scientist, cowboy, sleeping, cow, bribery, bureaucracy, absurdism, female scientist, police chase, gunslinger ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
czech republic, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe, prague
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In the year 2163 the starship Ikarie XB-1 (Ikarus XB-1) is sent to the mysterious "White Planet" orbiting the star Alpha Centauri. Travelling at near-light speed, the journey takes around 28 months for the astronauts, although the effects ...
Style:
futuristic, neo noir, mysterious, cult classic, black and white ...
Plot:
space, space opera, european, utopia, planet, spacesuit, lost in space, machine, monster, giant monster, alien, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, year 1963, 22nd century
Place:
czechoslovakia
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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: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the ...
Style:
black and white, spiritual, avant garde, surreal, no music ...
Plot:
holocaust, renaissance, surrealism, children in wartime, boy, nazi, bread, very little dialogue, tram, old man, escape, running ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ussr, germany, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Family, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely ...
Style:
fairy tale, dark, psychotronic, costume drama, beautiful
Plot:
mermaid, forbidden love, tragic romance, love, female nudity, self sacrifice, underwater, aquatic humanoid, interspecies romance, mute girl, love interest, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Pražský policejní inspektor Trachta a jeho nezkušený praktikant Hlaváček pátrají po záhadně zmizelém továrníkovi Bierhanzlovi. Jeho továrna se zabývala výrobou vyhlášené masti pro růst vlasů. Pan továrník však náhle ...
Style:
parody, psychotronic, costume drama, spoof, detective ...
Plot:
police, rich woman, psychiatric patient, psychiatric hospital, insane asylum, death, disappearance, witness, rich man, co worker co worker relationship, replacement, mentor ...
Place:
central europe, prague
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical ...
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
machine, socially awkward, absent mindedness, shyness, auto mechanic, bribery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, judo, employer employee relationship, chase, coincidence, mechanic ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
balkan, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, prague
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Funny family comedy based on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, feel good
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
small town, friends, young at heart, coming of age, chases and races, mischievous children, young lovers, escapades, heroes, youth, young heroes, buddies ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
czech republic, europe, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, experimental, avant garde, realistic ...
Plot:
communist, renaissance, communism, politics, exile, election, age-gap relationship, totalitarian regime, radical, revenge, adultery, hard labor ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1969, 50s, year 1949 ...
Place:
eastern europe, prague, central europe, czechoslovakia, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. ...
Style:
absurd, folk tale, psychotronic, dark comedy, slapstick ...
Plot:
new love, locked in, absurdism, fish out of water, missing person, father daughter relationship, drowning, scientist, professor, doctor, mother daughter relationship, dog ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, prague, central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, adult animation, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
dystopia, trippy, surrealism, distopia, slave, meditation, alien species, baby, alien life-form, giant, planet, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1973, distant future, future
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Brave sons of the king, twin brothers Jaroslav and Jaromír love and help each other. It was they and another brother - Jindrich, who once saw the portrait of Princess of Diamond Mountains, fell in love and went on her quest.
Style:
fairy tale, psychotronic
Plot:
princess, prince, nobleman, dual role, male bonding, brother brother relationship, jealousy, father son relationship, cave, disguise, fight, diving ...
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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, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an ...
Style:
dark comedy, cult classic, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, sisters, renaissance, sister, totalitarian regime, holocaust, modernism, spirituality, hound dog, picnic, freedom ...
Time:
year 1966
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
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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, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, world war two, military, holocaust, girl, forest, locomotive, comeback, post war, soldier, estate, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, germany, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
Style:
psychotronic, fairy tale, urban fantasy
Plot:
coming of age, renaissance, invisibility, gnome, forest, first love, supermarket, dwarf, magical power, ranger, carpenter, knight ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, 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
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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 ...
Style:
lighthearted, witty, romantic comedy, slapstick
Plot:
night, class differences, working class, satire, male bonding, fish out of water, friendship, entertainment, makeover, social climbing, deception, flirting ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, czech republic
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A fourteen-year-old girl isplaced in an institution for mentally ill instead of a foster-home due to an official mistake. Here she gets a most cruel treatment which is governed by high-handedness of the spineless and perverse nurses. The girl ...
Plot:
rape victim, humiliation, abuse, torture, mental institution, psychiatric patient, doctor, teenage protagonist, teenage girl, incest rape, father daughter incest, mentally challenged ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
czechoslovakia, europe, central europe
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