Best Czechoslovak Movies – page 3
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia, particularly with the fans of ...
Style:
crying, non-linear
Plot:
hooliganism, football, escalation, older brother, sex on a train, bad influence, bullying, teenager, underage drinking, soccer fan, juvenile delinquent, vandalism ...
Place:
eastern europe, prague
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of ...
Style:
bleak, grim, tense, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
boxing, concentration camp, world war two, boxer, survival, oppression, holocaust, tragedy, dehumanization, violence, forced labor, morality ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, 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:
spoof, dark comedy, psychotronic, absurd, black comedy ...
Plot:
fictitious kingdom, female nudity, switching bodies, astrologer, human brain, brain, prophet, sarcasm, sexual attraction, brain transplant, actress, businessman ...
Place:
central europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is ...
Style:
fairy tale, folk tale, period piece, allegory, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
ghost, magic, supernatural, castle, hopes, wish fulfillment, political satire, small town, community, optimism, communism, enchantment ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin ...
Plot:
cash, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, smuggler, criminal, communism, scam, money, hustler, police, bare breasts, disco, suitcase of money ...
Place:
prague
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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, spoof, psychedelic, psychotronic, parody ...
Plot:
multiple deaths, gang war, false accusation of murder, coworker relationship, poisoning, naive man, police interrogation, old woman, seductive behavior, police detective, female journalist, landlady ...
Place:
north america, czech republic
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A story set in 1947 when Ukrainian right-wing anti-Communist guerillas, looking like and feeling like Nazi's, are trying to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the forest to occupy a family's countryside ...
Plot:
renaissance, group, town, house, shootout, woods, suffocated to death, rural setting, fight, beaten up, killing an animal, sexual attraction ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, year 1947
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A quarter century after the release of the original film, this sequel brings us a drama about platonic love, life retrospective and memories. Former schoolmates meet again in the mountains and it turns out they have not changed much. Even though so ...
Style:
teen comedy
Plot:
boy, little boy, bare butt, woods, bare chested male, horniness, shakespeare's othello, nerdy boy, butt, saint bernard dog, complaint, school trip ...
Place:
czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Na hrad Karlštejn nesmí žádná žena! Přesto se zamilované Daniele Kolářové a neméně zamilované Janě Brejchové podaří přes přísný královský zákaz strávit na hradě jednu noc v přestrojení.
Style:
fairy tale
Plot:
king, queen, disguise, wine, husband wife relationship, cross dressing, missing person, female protagonist, mistaken identity, sexism, learning the truth, bishop ...
Time:
14th century, middle ages
Place:
central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers ...
Style:
black comedy, allegory, period piece, philosophical
Plot:
renaissance, criminal underworld, opera, social commentary, gangster, satire, corruption, poverty, class struggle, moral ambiguity, literary, political satire ...
Time:
18th century, 1920s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Style:
realistic, intense, harsh, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, survival, soldier, nazi, world war, tank, escapades, anti war, wartime life, danger ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1969, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, italy
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined ...
Style:
surreal, satirical, existential, not serious, biting ...
Plot:
renaissance, surrealism, satire, disorder, social decay, fish out of water, imaginary, society, social misfits, dystopia, existentialism, hare ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, europe, czech republic, central europe
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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, psychiatric patient, mental disorder, holocaust survivor, foreign legion, legion, colonialism, psychiatric hospital, hiding place, mental institution ...
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, prague
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In this Czech political allegory-cum-sci-fi adventure, ten teens from different schools find themselves chosen to take part in a special skiing workshop in the mountains. On the day of the seminar, eleven young people, each bearing an invitation, ...
Style:
psychotronic, gothic horror, gothic, psychological horror
Plot:
alien, snow, women, teenage girl, teenage boy, avalanche, juvenile delinquent, troubled youth, survival horror, survival, arthouse horror, folk horror ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia
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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
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Plot:
seductive behavior, summer, first love, man in underwear, flashback, female nudity, teenage boy, bare breasts, teenage protagonist, topless woman, river, teenager ...
Place:
eastern europe, central europe
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art ...
Style:
fairy tale, adult animation, expressionism, psychedelic, gothic horror ...
Plot:
stop motion, rat, magic realism, folklore, nightmare, money, greed, children, mysterious man, metamorphosis, folk horror, transformation ...
Time:
year 1986, medieval times
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The lacking attitude of a conscripted university graduate places him at odds with the power and doctrine of his military superiors. His secret relationship with the wife of a superior officer along with the low discipline of his fellow conscripts ...
Plot:
bossiness, bare chested male, horniness, voyeur, male nudity, man with glasses, soldier, female nudity, voyeurism, man in underwear, male objectification, sex scene ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in hus life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and ...
Style:
existential, contemplative, reflective, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
artist, self discovery, personal growth, choice, identity, character study, relationships, love triangle, humanism, slice of life, coming of age, intimate ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, slovakia, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are in the principal's office after the trouble with the rather scandalous song "On the Carpet", the school principal gives them the ...
Style:
metafiction, teen comedy
Plot:
skinny dipping, sexual attraction, public nudity, bare butt, nudity, male pubic hair, horniness, bare chested male, classmate classmate relationship, theatre director, man in underwear, director ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the Czech film comedy from 1988, you can see for yourself that the war was not easy, but otherwise it was great fun. Sergeant Kouba serving with the paratroopers has a soft spot for women. His superior does not like him. However, during a ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, feel good, lighthearted, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
heroism, sergeant, friendship, honor, redemption, soldier, satire, small town, moral dilemma, buddy, military, wedding ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, 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, slapstick comedy, buddy comedy, dark comedy, psychotronic ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
machine, man with glasses, dual role, biopunk, domestic drama, hotel manager, prison visit, lower class, death, scheme, overweight woman, heist ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague, central europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her ...
Style:
brutal, avant garde, crying
Plot:
renaissance, architecture, destiny, modernism, children, harvest, swimming, sun, blind woman, country, voice over narration, agriculture ...
Time:
year 1962
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A fairy-tale about the power of love. The old king Pravoslav feels it is time to entrust the rule over his kingdom to one of his three daughters - the one that loves him the most. The youngest, Maruška, fails her father's expectations about ...
Style:
fairy tale
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mythology, daughter, transformation, drinking, competition, ritual, gift, scolding, disguise, in laws, bare chested male, chore ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating people and making them to serve her. She plays with her ...
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
renaissance, asexual, father in law daughter in law relationship, family relations, egotism, opportunism, engagement, retribution, satire, mother in law daughter in law relationship, medical student, manipulation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
This light comedy finds a Czech taxi driver taking his family on a weekend outing in the country. His wife, daughter-in-law, son and two grandchildren are the passengers who disturb the solitude of two young lovers. While the women attend the horse ...
Plot:
argument, father in law daughter in law relationship, quarrel, overweight woman, grandparents, family life, one day, smoking, father son relationship, anger, husband wife relationship, female nudity ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Vera Chytilova wrote and directed this two-part story that took the Grand Prix at the Mannheim Film Festival. Part one deals with the rigorous training of Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosakova. She contemplates retirement as she goes through a ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, period piece
Plot:
feminism, housewife, gender roles, patriarchy, motherhood, female athlete, women's liberation, resentment, retirement, melancholy, gymnastics, introspection ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young ...
Style:
homoerotic, period drama
Plot:
gay, poem, loss of friend, cave, burglar, death of protagonist, nightmare, cemetery, scout, anti hero, deer, poacher ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
central europe
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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 ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
economist, renaissance, unfaithfulness, female objectification, family relations, grape, brother brother conflict, prostitution, male objectification, economic crisis, loss of innocence, cabaret ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague, europe, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, ...
Style:
anthology
Plot:
magic realism, renaissance, voyeurism, dog, voyeur, singer, wedding, train, officer, dream, fiancee, absurdism ...
Place:
eastern europe
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