Best Czechoslovak Movies – page 5
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
Style:
tragicomedy, poignant, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
world war two, children in wartime, adolescence, imagination, coming of age, boyhood, childhood, innocence lost, grownups, loss of innocence, village life, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
slovakia
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Woodcutter Ondra, who for his bold nature is called Nebojsa. He goes into the world to learn fear. During his journey, on which he is accompanied by a cowardly thief Ferka, he can deal with a bunch of bandits, vicious mill, fiery rock and eventually ...
Style:
fairy tale, spooky, freeze frame, crying
Plot:
owl, tasks, gang of outlaws, flowers, disguise, friendship, criminal, painting, friendship between men, horse, violence, princess ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination ...
Style:
crying, freeze frame
Plot:
children, renaissance, photography, bare chested male, anton chekhov, trauma, neighbor, funeral, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, restaurant, wedding ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and ...
Plot:
alienation, renaissance, mental disorder, doctor, outsider, suicide attempt, adultery, unhappiness, psychiatric patient, psychiatric hospital, coworker relationship, unfaithful wife ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neighboring king fell in love with her from her description, but much to the king's disappointment, she rejected his ambassador, saying she had no ...
Style:
fairy tale, costume drama, psychotronic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
gift, talking animal, supernatural power, flying, boat, cooking, king, sister sister relationship, magical potion, quest, fish, goldfish ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man.
Style:
apocalyptic, surreal, psychotronic
Plot:
post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, distopia, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, matriarchy, animal abuse, killing an animal, bombing, fishing, dystopia, minimal dialogue ...
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to bend the backbone in face of foreign rule. Situating the story at the close of the Thirty Year War enabled the depiction of the misery of the people ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, grim, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
national identity, political intrigue, betrayal, survival, espionage, resistance, occupation, collaboration, misery, character study, desolation, poverty ...
Time:
17th century, medieval times
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
Style:
freeze frame, crying, period drama
Plot:
world war one, renaissance, biopic, signing a contract, work abroad, national identity, czech german relations, superstition, moral dilemma, forest, drunken man, shooting ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917, year 1916, year 1915, year 1914
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, prague, america, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Comedy with fairy-tale touches, about Kate, who wants to marry, and Mr. Devil, who is not interested in the heart or soul of this passionate and aging lady, but is interested in her good cooking – for Mr. Devil is a glutton.
Style:
psychotronic, black comedy, minimal cast, allegory, dark comedy ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, female empowerment, hallucinogenic drug, emancipation, egocentrism, loneliness, surrealism, feminism, magic realism, misogyny, snobbism, murderous scheme ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
central europe, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for ...
Style:
erotic, freeze frame, period drama
Plot:
world war two, czech history, renaissance, women's prison, female protagonist, european history, rural setting, female friendship, jail cell, bravery, german occupation, imprisonment ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Juvaj Jakubiskoʼs first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate ...
Plot:
renaissance, house, tree, rural setting, hypocrisy, family relations, nudity, con man, promise, thirty something, building a house, anti hero ...
Place:
eastern europe, slovakia, europe, central europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Style:
crying, freeze frame, period drama
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, prisoner, biopic, cooking, sadistic woman, evil mother, czech german relations, dead child, wound, factory worker, masseuse ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, 1930s
Place:
europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, prague
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Prague - mystical city. It was here in the Middle Ages, alchemists and magicians gathered. Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher's stone, and complex multi-level labyrinth of underground tunnels and cellars ...
Style:
anthology, psychotronic, dark comedy, horror comedy, costume drama ...
Plot:
selfish woman, accomplice, murderous scheme, killing spree, manipulation, supernatural horror, greed, scheme, villainess, ghost story, greedy woman, repeated event ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, central europe, prague
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child heroes who find themselves in great dangers. We are in the year 1611 and mercenaries that had ...
Style:
psychotronic, road movie, dark fantasy, freeze frame, costume drama ...
Plot:
children, nudity, inn, voice over narration, woods, czech german relations, executioner, desire, drowned, czech history, girl, soldier ...
Time:
17th century, medieval times
Place:
central europe, europe
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, UK, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, art house, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
surrealism, alice in wonderland, little girl, arthouse horror, absurdism, mushroom, stop motion, rabbit, female protagonist, child protagonist, anthropomorphic animal, skeleton ...
Time:
1800s, year 1988, 20th century, 80s, 19th century ...
Place:
czech republic, central europe, czechoslovakia, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Adolf (Miloš Kopecký), the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka (Hana Lelitová), a novice opera singer. The girl, however, prefers famous men and Adolf thus does not have a single chance with her. One day in a hospital, he meets a ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy
Plot:
voice over narration, lesbian erotica, friend, flashback, false friend, manipulative person, man with glasses, sexual attraction, anti hero, older man younger woman relationship, love triangle, seducer ...
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation is not easy, especially when one day the child's mother disappears. Twenty year old Zdenek ...
Plot:
teenage boy, coming of age, teenage protagonist, teenager, striptease, bare butt, nudity, bare chested male, railroad, public nudity, naked in public, social worker ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.
Style:
sexual, touching, atmospheric, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
magic realism, womanizer, haunted by the past, love and romance, couple relations, aging, unfulfillment, couples, snow, waiter, flowers, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1971, 1920s
Place:
europe, hungary, central europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland. There she ...
Style:
political, political thriller, philosophical, suspense, social ...
Plot:
communist, women, revolution, communism, biopic, capitalism, revolutionary, anarchist, world war one, protest, strike, union ...
Time:
20th century, year 1916
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak, period piece, tragic ...
Plot:
world war two, human animal relationship, loyalty, german shepherd, nazi occupation, resistance, child protagonist, grief, empathy, political repression, loss of innocence, animal cruelty ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals, keeping most people at a safe distance, yet trying to get male attention.
Plot:
traumatic childhood, summer, rain, soldier, dog, mother daughter relationship, seeing eye dog, platonic, heat wave, ambulance, hairdresser, teenage girl ...
Place:
eastern europe, prague
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends to his job as a television repairman, Slavek fondly remembers how he first met Ivana and the days ...
Style:
freeze frame, non-linear
Plot:
flashback, pregnancy, pregnant woman, hospital, newborn, renaissance, modernism, infant, female protagonist, doctor, nurse, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
eastern europe, prague
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Marta (Lucie Patikova) was blinded in an accident brought on by her careless and indulgent younger sister. Now in a school for the blind, Marta keeps up her hope that she will one day see again, mainly because her mother - out of good intentions - ...
Style:
non-linear, crying
Plot:
renaissance, doctor, blinded, accident, depression, children, voice over narration, trauma, secret, concert, nurse, girl ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.
Style:
romantic comedy
Plot:
rural setting, bare chested male, nudity, domestic drama, nude young male, female teacher, czech village, party, rainstorm, older man younger woman relationship, storm, single parent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every Christmas one of the boys has to face the master in a magical ...
Style:
christmas horror, cult classic, anime, fairy tale, psychotronic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, forbidden love, evil sorcerer, apprentice, raven, sorcerer, folk horror, warlock, master apprentice relationship, death, metamorphosis, death of friend ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
czech republic, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the ...
Style:
detective, poliziottesco
Plot:
banker, hospital, widow, shooting, police detective, safe, helicopter, investigation, police station, amnesia, bank manager, murder investigation ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running ...
Style:
satirical, slapstick, period piece, lighthearted, black comedy ...
Plot:
student, satire, bureaucracy, art school, social commentary, misunderstanding, humanism, sculpture, professor, jealousy, sexuality, slice of life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Occupied by family problems, a 13 year old Vojto takes every responsibility around the house. One day while on a train to school, he sees this girl, Kajka, and falls madly in love with her. Despite his busy life, he decides to win her heart by any ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
first love, coming of age, young love, grownups, childhood love, domestic drama, responsibility, working class family, slice of life, train station, small town life, intimate ...
Place:
czechoslovakia
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Genre: Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.
Style:
freeze frame, crying, psychotronic
Plot:
ufo sighting, child protagonist, youth, little girl, flashback, teacher, wedding party, boy, mother daughter relationship, little boy, scientist, radio ...
Time:
year 1975, year 2000, future, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
central europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant and biggest fan, answers the questions of his schoolfriend Pavlína in a superior tone. Student Zuzana (Libuse ...
Style:
romantic drama, dramatic, period drama
Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
brothers, friendship, grownups, adolescence, youth, coming of age, teen romance, first love, sibling rivalry, jealousy, love triangle, breakup ...
Time:
70s
Place:
prague
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