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1. Spaceman (I) (2024)
R | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Half a year into his solo mission on the edge of the solar system, an astronaut concerned with the state of his life back on Earth is helped by an ancient creature he discovers in the bowels of his ship.
Director: Johan Renck | Stars: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, Kunal Nayyar
Votes: 32,731
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
R | 171 min | Drama, Romance
Central Europe, 1968: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint
Votes: 38,665 | Gross: $10.01M
3. A Stolen Life (1946)
Passed | 109 min | Drama
When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan
Votes: 4,091
4. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.
Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek
Votes: 11,246
5. Mother/Android (2021)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a post-apocalyptic world rocked by a violent android uprising, a young pregnant woman and her boyfriend desperately search for safety.
Director: Mattson Tomlin | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Algee Smith, Raúl Castillo, Linnea Gardner
Votes: 21,196
6. The Cremator (1969)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová, Milos Vognic
Votes: 10,793
7. Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, History, Romance
A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka
Votes: 6,033
8. Three Wishes for Cinderella (2021)
87 min | Family, Fantasy
A Cinderella story: in snow-heavy forests the heroine battles against her evil stepmother for her dream of meeting the handsome prince. This is a breathtaking ride featuring brilliant archery and a gorgeous palace ball.
Director: Cecilie A. Mosli | Stars: Astrid S, Bjørn Sundquist, Anne Marit Jacobsen, Toivo Ty Terjesen
Votes: 2,453
9. Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta
Votes: 13,855 | Gross: $3.27M
10. Little Otik (2000)
TV-14 | 132 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový
Votes: 6,883 | Gross: $0.12M
11. Brothers (2023)
135 min | Action, Drama, History
Adaptation of controversial real-life story from the 1950s.
Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Oskar Hes, Jan Nedbal, Adam Ernest, Tatiana Dyková
Votes: 315
12. Witchhammer (1970)
107 min | Drama, History, Horror
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr, Sona Valentová
Votes: 2,842
13. The Confession (1970)
GP | 139 min | Drama, Thriller
A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold
Votes: 4,820 | Gross: $0.33M
14. Cosy Dens (1999)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totally stupid; fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.
Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Michael Beran, Miroslav Donutil, Simona Stasová, Kristýna Nováková
Votes: 6,172
15. I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
Directors: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb | Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká
Votes: 2,723
16. Zelary (2003)
R | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War
A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
Director: Ondrej Trojan | Stars: Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Adamová
Votes: 3,753 | Gross: $0.33M
17. Il caso dell'infedele Klara (2009)
90 min | Drama, Romance
In contemporary Prague a young musician is obsessed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klara. He engages a private detective to spy on Klara but this starts an uncontrollable series ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Iain Glen, Laura Chiatti, Kierston Wareing
Votes: 446
18. Pickup (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A lonely widowers life changes when he marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon, Howland Chamberlain
Votes: 843
19. The Marriage Escape (2020)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
A middle-aged veterinary surgeon, believing that his wife pampers him too much, fakes the onset of dementia to get away from her.
Director: Johan Nijenhuis | Stars: Herman Finkers, Johanna ter Steege, Leonie ter Braak, Ferdi Stofmeel
Votes: 3,332
20. Diamonds of the Night (1964)
Not Rated | 67 min | Drama, War
Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.
Director: Jan Nemec | Stars: Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova, Jan Riha
Votes: 2,905
21. R.U.R.
Sci-Fi | Filming
A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results. Based on the famous 1920 play by Karel Capek, a satire ever more potent for today.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Mallory Jansen, Lindsay Farris
22. The Girl on a Broomstick (1972)
76 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Saxana has the enthusiasm, but lacks the right talent to become a witch. So she's kept in for 300 years - nothing unusual for a sorceress' school. Being bored, she skims through the ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Petra Cernocká, Jan Hrusínský, Jan Kraus, Vlastimil Zavrel
Votes: 1,484
23. I Served the King of England (2006)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Marián Labuda
Votes: 8,194 | Gross: $0.62M
24. Even Mice Belong in Heaven (2021)
80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A mouse and a fox die and find themselves in animal paradise and become best friends. Upon their return to earth they are reborn in opposite roles, but the power of friendship surpasses the impossible.
Directors: Jan Bubenicek, Denisa Grimmová | Stars: Erica Schroeder, Marc Thompson, Mike Pollock, Wayne Grayson
Votes: 763
25. R.U.R.: Genesis (2013)
7 min | Short, Action, Drama
Set in the style of a sexy, alt-history 1969, this adaptation depicts a world populated by genetically engineered workers ("artificials") -- perfect, made-to-order people who lack fundamental rights.
Director: James Kerwin | Stars: Chase Masterson, Kipleigh Brown, James Ellis Lane, Amara Cash
Votes: 32
26. Lemonade Joe (1964)
84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Straight shooting Lemonade Joe cleans up Stetson City, in this musical parody of early Westerns, after shooting the pants off villain Old Pistol. Joe's endorsement of Kolaloka lemonade as ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Karel Fiala, Rudolf Deyl, Milos Kopecký, Kveta Fialová
Votes: 3,057
27. Konec starych casu (1989)
97 min | Comedy
Czechia, 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic background, he is a man of fortune and is ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Marián Labuda, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrusínský
Votes: 449
28. Larks on a String (1969)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská
Votes: 2,191
29. Colette (2013)
126 min | Biography, Drama, History
Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most-renowned literary authors of our time. Lustig's novel 'A Girl from Antwerp,' upon which this film 'Colette' is based, draws on the author's ... See full summary »
Director: Milan Cieslar | Stars: Clémence Thioly, Jirí Mádl, Eric Bouwer, Andrej Hryc
Votes: 615
30. Volha (2023– )
Comedy, Drama
Standa Pekárek finishes compulsory military service and becomes a chauffeur at communist Czech TV in 1971 dreaming of his own Volga (Volha). Willing to do anything to fulfill his dream he agrees to be a spy under code-name Volha.
Stars: Krystof Hádek, Klára Melísková, Tomás Jerábek, Martin Pechlát
Votes: 138
31. Bylo nás pet (1994– )
360 min | Comedy
Young Petr and his four friends undergoes several adventures throughout this series--setting a field on fire, sneaking into a theater without paying and many more.
Stars: Adam Novák, Jaroslav Pauer, Oldrich Navrátil, Stepán Benyovszký
Votes: 363
32. Cutting it Short (1981)
93 min | Comedy
An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Magda Vásáryová, Jirí Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrusínský
Votes: 2,720
33. Velké trápení (1975)
87 min | Drama, Family
After the separation of her parents from her father, a 13-year-old girl is placed in an orphanage where she has difficulty settling in, but then begins to break away from her father because she sees through his selfishness.
Director: Jirí Hanibal | Stars: Renata Masková, Jana Stepánková, Bozena Böhmová, Eduard Cupák
Votes: 31
34. Pearls of the Deep (1965)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
Set against the backdrop of a repressed Czechoslovakia, five non-related vignettes are presented, each showcasing the need and want for human connection. In "Mr. Baltazar's Death", a middle... See full summary »
Directors: Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, Jirí Menzel, Jan Nemec, Evald Schorm | Stars: Pavla Marsálková, Ferdinand Kruta, Emil Iserle, Alois Vachek
Votes: 799
35. Robinsonka (1974)
77 min | Drama, Family
Blazenka likes to imagine she is on a desolate island and has to find a way how to survive. After the death of her mother she stays together with her baby brother and has to take care of ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Miroslava Safránková, Petr Kostka, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Vladimír Dlouhý
Votes: 66
36. What a Man Wants (2018)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A philandering cab driver makes a profound impression on his brother-in-law.
Director: Lee Byeong-heon | Stars: Lee Sung-min, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Ji-hyo, Lee El
Votes: 469
37. Oznamuje se láskám vasim (1989)
93 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1944, in Dresden, a young Czech sailor plans to steal a shipment of tobacco and sell it by himself. Things complicate when he and a beautiful daughter of a German officer fall in love just before the allied bombing of the city.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Lukás Vaculík, Markéta Hrubesová, Antonín Procházka, Zdenek Martínek
Votes: 148
38. Hastrman (2018)
98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human. He is a ... See full summary »
Director: Ondrej Havelka | Stars: Karel Dobrý, Vladimír Polívka, Jirí Lábus, Norbert Lichý
Votes: 249
39. R.U.R. (1938 TV Movie)
35 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Technological progress, in the shape of Rossum's Universal Robots, threatens to dominate and wipe out mankind.
Stars: Derek Bond, Harvey Braban, William Lyon Brown, Cherry Cottrell
Votes: 19
40. Gump - pes, který naucil lidi zít (2021)
92 min | Adventure, Family
A stray dog named Gump is searching for his place in the human world. He wishes to get a companion, but has to endure several challenges along the way.
Director: F.A. Brabec | Stars: Ivan Trojan, Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Ivana Chýlková
Votes: 269
41. The Joke (1969)
80 min | Drama
In the 1950's, 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar, Jaroslava Obermaierová
Votes: 1,705
42. The Noonday Witch (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror
A story of Eliska and her daughter, starting a new life in a remote house, with the father away on business, as the mother claims. After the lie is exposed, their relationship begins to ... See full summary »
Directors: Jiri Sádek, Matej Chlupacek, Michal Samir | Stars: Anna Geislerová, Karolína Lipowská, Zdenek Mucha, Daniela Kolárová
Votes: 685
43. Wild Flowers (2000)
81 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Seven unrelated Czech fairy tales from 1853 by Karel Jaromír Erben, united by folklore, atmosphere, and visuals, form this anthology film exploring themes through a series of poetic vignettes without a cohesive narrative.
Director: F.A. Brabec | Stars: Martina Bezousková, Sylvie Kraslová, Sára Vorísková, Anna Bezousková
Votes: 1,485
44. Oil Lamps (1971)
PG | 101 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Petr Cepek, Marie Rosulková, Ota Sklencka
Votes: 399
45. The Oddsockeaters (2016)
83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Oddsockeaters are small creatures, who live alongside us humans and are responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair - the odd sock. They eat socks, but only one from each pair.
Director: Galina Miklínová | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Jan Maxián, David Novotný, Ondrej Trojan
Votes: 301
46. Insect (2018)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Amateur actors rehearsing "Pictures from the Insects' Life". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. "Insects", is intercut with the ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Jirí Lábus, Jan Budar, Pavel Nový, Norbert Lichý
Votes: 523
47. The Golden Eels (1979 TV Movie)
84 min | Drama
A little boy, nicknamed Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. There, the boy became friends with a local fisherman and learned to catch ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Miroslava Hozová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Martin Mikulas
Votes: 234
48. Lotrando a Zubejda (1997)
106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Once upon a time, there was a band of robbers, ruled by Lotrando, the robber of robbers. He took from the poor and the rich, and gave generously to his cronies. His son had long since ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Smyczek | Stars: Jirí Strach, Barbora Seidlová, Pavel Zednícek, Arnost Goldflam
Votes: 542
49. Old Czech Legends (1953)
91 min | Animation, Fantasy
Excellent stop-motion animation film from one of the best Czech filmmakers, Jirí Trnka. It tells the ancient story of Bohemia, how it was founded by Czech, the Forefather, and a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Trnka | Stars: Zdenek Stepánek, Eduard Kohout, Karel Höger, Rùzena Nasková
Votes: 287
50. Shameless (2008)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A Prague weatherman gets a bad case of the seven-year itch.
Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Jirí Machácek, Simona Babcáková, Pavel Liska, Emília Vásáryová
Votes: 663