Best Czechoslovak Movies – page 4
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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: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film is based on the book of the same title (A Sanguinary Novel) by the very individual Czech painter, typographer, author and philosopher Josef Vachal, who squeezed adventure, love, horror and other parallel episodes into, what is called, ...
Style:
parody, gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, expressionism ...
Plot:
dead body, woods, old man, arthouse horror, macabre, aristocrat, ship, dark humor, forest, boat, multiple murder, murder ...
Place:
czech republic, europe, central europe
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.
Style:
gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, crying
Plot:
distopia, town, voice over narration, inn, cannon, dead body, weapons, family relations, rivals, wanted, secret message, new year's eve party ...
Time:
1910s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A comedy about happiness, Indian magic and adultery. One day Mr and Mrs Sysel happen to solve the problem of lacking enough room in their tiny flat. They break through the wall into their neighbour's comfortable flat, from which they borrow not ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, light hearted, situational comedy, slapstick ...
Plot:
neighbor, adultery, marriage, optimism, relationships, happiness, apartment building, farce, family life, urban, daily life, satire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
india, europe, central europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The husband and wife Ludva and Hedus Homolkas with their twins Péta and Máta and Ludva's parents - the granny and grandpa - arrive in the snowy Spindleruv Mlýn for a holiday. They promise to each other that they will not spoil the quite ...
Style:
family comedy, lighthearted, feel good, slapstick, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
snow, unhappiness, ski resort, slice of life, family tradition, holiday romance, family relations, elderly, father son relationship, dancing, husband wife relationship, mountain ...
Time:
year 1970
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A comedy on a typical children summer camp from the socialist time, telling the truth about it: combination of strange cynical leaders, absent-minded young assistants with complexes, teenage girls desperately in love with them etc. What a pioneer ...
Style:
satirical, period piece, ironic, dark comedy, light hearted ...
Plot:
summer, youth, teenage girl, satire, youth culture, summer camp, friendship, nostalgia, coming of age, slice of life, bittersweet, political satire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This movie is realistic and even crude, and maybe that is the reason, why it's so impressive. Instead of romantic (nearly melodramatic) scenes, incorporated to the Sverak's "Tmavomodry svet" (Dark Blue World) it offers stories ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
world war two, aviation, luftwaffe, aeroplane, royal air force, airplane crash, aircraft, czech history, friend, airplane, funeral, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
england, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
kaiju, dinosaur, giant monster, giant creature, sea monster, sea creature, prehistoric creature, prehistoric animal, reptiles, thunderstorm, sea, ship ...
Time:
20th century, prehistory, 70s
Place:
north africa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Sonya is the inheritor to the riches of a Czech noble family - the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring the shady goings-on, especially an insane uncle who prowls the mansion thinking he is invisible, a peccadillo the family seems to ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, neo noir, psychotronic, crying ...
Plot:
uncle, parallel universe, xmas, extramarital affair, christmas, painter, husband wife relationship, death, father daughter relationship, funeral, broken mirror, baby ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, 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, absurd, raunchy comedy, spoof ...
Plot:
time paradox, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, distopia, surrealism, time travel, time machine, nobleman, fat man, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, woman rapes man, love story ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century, future, 1910s
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, europe, prague, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Two friends have sex just for fun. One day they make a blood test, just for fun, and they discover that one of them has AIDS, not knowing who.
Style:
tragicomedy, dark comedy, black humor, tragic
Plot:
sexual intercourse, aids, promiscuity, male friendship, satire, social commentary, branding iron, sexually liberated, casual sex, mortality, existential crisis, infidelity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, prague
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 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:
costume drama, crying, period drama
Plot:
renaissance, wedding ceremony, marriage, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, train, gambler, mother daughter relationship, unhappy marriage, cousin cousin relationship, nun, illness ...
Time:
20th century, year 1900, turn of the century, 1900s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Česká filmová parodie na brakové sešitové romány odehrávající se v ponurých šlechtických sídlech plných tajných chodeb, intrik a dávných tajemství. Příběh se "odehrává" v pražském Smetanově divadle, kde si během ...
Style:
parody, black comedy, psychotronic, detective, spoof ...
Plot:
castle, investigation, nobleman, escapee, mystery woman, voice over narration, bare chested male, coroner, tiger, wedding ceremony, orchestra, butler ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, hospital, innocence, coming of age, first love, compassion, empathy, adolescence, paralysis, recovery, bittersweet, summer ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia
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184
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro Jánošík [1688-1713] and the social situation in Slovakia of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The first part ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece
Plot:
execution, biopic, folklore, folk hero, class conflict, rebellion, national identity, feudalism, social injustice, outsider, sacrifice, hanging ...
Time:
18th century, 17th century, 16th century
Place:
slovakia
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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: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
House for Two is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Miloš Zábranský. This film stars two of the most recognized Czech actors, Ondřej Vetchý who plays Dan, and Jiří Schmitzer as Bóza. (From Wikipedia)
Plot:
hallucination, female nudity, male nudity, brother brother relationship, death of brother, birthday, family relations, man in underwear, insanity, pregnant woman, sex scene, adopted son ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on volunteer work some time before. The police detectives, Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and ...
Style:
crying, poliziottesco, detective
Plot:
photography, trespassing, excavation, following someone, suicide, landlady, photograph, war criminal, photo studio, burglary, police detective, eavesdropping ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
satire, firefighter, political satire, corruption, bureaucracy, fire, husband wife relationship, confusion, fire brigade, small town, renaissance, farce ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A sad story about love between Czech boy and German girl during 1944.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
world war two, sensuality, wedding ceremony, czech german relations, traumatic childhood, first love, xenophobia, european history, sex scene, violence, promiscuous man, christmas ...
Time:
year 1944, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, europe, central europe
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160
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats ...
Style:
slapstick comedy, raunchy comedy, slapstick, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
marriage for money, wedding, wedding present, domestic drama, teenage boy, money, man hits a woman, manipulative behavior, old man, promiscuous man, mayor, jealousy ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
europe, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet ...
Style:
satirical
Plot:
renaissance, road trip, communism, surrealism, robbery, female friendship, old woman, indigenous people, friend, friendship, suffering, male female relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Titulní hrdina komediálního filmu je typický žižkovský frajer. S chytrostí a šarmem si vyřizuje otevřené účty s policejním inspektorem Mourkem, který ho chce stůj co stůj dostat do kriminálu. Jenže Fešák Hubert unikne z každé ...
Style:
poliziottesco, detective, crying, period drama
Plot:
elderly man, pawnshop, female voyeur, deafness, elderly woman, drunkenness, police investigator, arrest, police officer, arrested, secretly observing, noblewoman ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
central europe, prague, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ...
Style:
anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
Plot:
renaissance, surrealism, gypsy, motorcycle race, insurance agent, modernism, satire, fiancee, dark humor, pub, car, old man ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, prague, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they ...
Style:
light hearted, surreal, black and white, satirical, melancholic ...
Plot:
film history, magician, friendship, nostalgia, circus, love triangle, jealousy, community, heartwarming, wanderer, renaissance, filmmaking ...
Time:
pre world war one, turn of the century, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A scientist convinces him that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, semi serious, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot:
dracula, vampire, killer car, renaissance, car, medical, ghost car, objects come to life, killer, automobile, monster car, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe, prague ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.
Style:
psychotronic, urban fantasy
Plot:
alien disguised as human, disguise, job, excavation, apartment building, fish out of water, neighbor, woman driver, forest, alien, supermarket, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
central europe, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, realistic, poignant
Plot:
nightlife, frustration, alcoholism, nightclub, escape, slice of life, social realism, working class, alienation, regret, introspection, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, slovakia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He ...
Style:
parody, fast paced, absurd, psychotronic, freeze frame ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, spy thriller, female secret agent, mass murder, bare chested male, dead body, spying, human dog relationship, narcissist, assassination ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
czech republic, europe, central europe, prague
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives ...
Style:
detective, poliziottesco
Plot:
hidden money, affair, illicit affair, trauma, mental illness, woods, mental patient, forest ranger, small town, brother brother relationship, nurse, rape ...
Place:
central europe
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