The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral maturity...

The story of a little boy named Sam, who is exploited by two evil chimney sweeps to clean narrow chimneys.

Short film made by Bretislav Pojar

Short movie by Bretislav Pojar

Songs about eternal love, American vagabonds, cowboys and desperadoes, with the romance of railways and trains speeding into the distance are...

The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the...

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic...

Olga Valentová, whose father was a communist resistance fighter and died during the occupation, works in the export department of Tatrovka....

It's a crisp autumn morning. Marta prepares breakfast and goes to work. Little Jenda has a sore throat, so she has to go to her grandfather's to look...

Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers with horror that the filmmakers have...

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

Little Rehor isn't allowed to play with the other boys. His only friend is the girl next door, Luci. Rehor's father is doctor on a boat and he has...

Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are in the principal's office after...

A satire about small and large crooks who thrive in a planned economy. They made great use of all its strengths and weaknesses.

The parents decided to send two twins, Honza, and Martin, on vacation to their grandfather.

A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in...

Two short stories by Karel Čintamani a ptáci An avid collector of carpets, MUDr. Vitásek discovers a unique piece in Mrs....

The story of a boy who finds himself in hospital.

Three small short stories, each of which was created by one of the famous Czechoslovak filmmakers of children's films: Magdalena, Fraud and Karp.

A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová,...

A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed...

The countess celebrates her sixtieth birthday at the moment when she is about to leave her castle. The new workers' government wants to mercilessly...

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because...

Oligophrenic Fany (Bohdalová) lives with her aunt who suddenly manages to travel abroad. Fany has to move to her sister...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and play the entire Chopin Sonata in B Minor would not...

Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical...

Petr and Lída Kadlec are moving to a dilapidated mill in the Bohemian Forest, which they plan to convert into a restaurant. Unsuspected...

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This...

An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter....

Twelve-year-old Jana returns from the hospital. She notices some changes at home and is worried that her parents are going to divorce. In reality,...

At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman. The gym teacher Vasek is shy and...

An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it.

A stories about friendship and love, children and parents, students and teachers - all from one regular Czech school during the eighties.

The lead character is a young woman who becomes close with a colleague of her husband. She finds herself at an important crossroad in life and...

Deputy of cartography enterprise Mr. Ciruvka tries to seduce the colleague's assistant to destabilize his confident in a run for the director's...

Spy film about a man with a face lift who gets recruited by western organisations.

During a royal hunt, the young prince is injured under strange circumstances, and his father, the king, falls from a high cliff and dies. The young...

A documentary about the life of Jewish children forced to live in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he...

The title character of this somewhat bitter comedy is Klára Zárubecká, a saleswoman at a train station buffet, a resolute and...

The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits him -...

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.

Adolf (Miloš Kopecký), the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka (Hana Lelitová), a novice opera singer. The girl,...

An escaped inmate of a mental home, Franz Moose, has been found shot dead in the forest. In the course of their investigation, District Commander...

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

A group of classmates is invited to stay at a spa. However, they experience many twists and turns, funny situations, but also personal dramas. At the...

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman,...

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.

A comedy about funny adventures of boys and girls during the summer vacation.

It was a fateful August, and devastating floods ravaged Bohemia. Mrs. Gabriela lived alone in a spacious apartment near Prague. Perhaps she just...

A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD...

For a second time this film leads us to the village in South Bohemia. We meet again Konopnik family and Skopek family. Venca Konopnik is marrying...

The local farmers' cooperative organized a trip to Italy, in which the Škopkovci took part. They went there at the invitation of the Italian...

A detective story set in New York in the 1920s.

The Karpísek married couple, both doctors, are leaving for London for two months on business. They entrust their five-year old son...

As the name suggests, the movie is about football. It is not about big league soccer, making huge money. It is about football, which lives just from...

Three generations live side by side. The wilful, jack-in-all-pots grandmother blackmails the family with fake faintings, while grandpa suffers from...

This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the ancient city adopting modern way of life. The form...

After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.

It seemed that the arrogant princess was tormenting the king with her whims. When she thought she would only marry a groom as frail as herself, the...

No one has ever managed to enter the dark cave of the fairy Asteria twice. Anyone brought here by chance or curiosity has been petrified. Only the...

In a South Moravian wine-growing village in the early 1970s lives an old man who cannot accept the attitude of the younger generation towards nature...

Stationmaster Miloš, a lonely trumpet player nearing fifty, watches life pass him by as he mourns alone at a funeral and pines secretly for...

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

Even the best of resolutions can crumble, especially when late paternal feelings are echoed. Although the protagonist is a lecturer in ethics at the...

A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury.

Among the apprentices learning the confectionery trade is Honza Králíček, who is not enjoying it at all and would rather be working...

Sňatky z rozumu was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1968. The programme was directed by František Filip.