Czech Movies
List activity
197 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
23 titles
- DirectorJan SverákStarsJan TrískaZdenek SverákLibuse SafránkováThe time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women.
- DirectorJirí MádlStarsPetr SimcákJan MarsálOndrej VetchýTomas (12) gets a camera and begins making a film about his family. His enigmatic father (Ondrej Vetchý) works from home. By hiding a camera in his office, Tomas discovers that on Tuesdays and Thursdays his father leaves the house. When confronted with that fact, he denies it. On the pursuit of the great family secret Tomas reveals the hidden side of Haris, his best friend, who starts using a camera as the only way to get his mum and brother away from the hell of his violent father. Courage and profound friendship lead Tomas and Haris to the final revelation and an unpredictable conclusion. The whole film is shot and edited as if by a twelve-year-old boy. This technique allows us to perceive the world through the eyes of a child.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsVladimír MensíkMiroslava HozováRudolf HrusínskýA 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 the golden eels. Eventually, his father and mother were arrested by the Nazis and the boy stayed with the fisherman.
- DirectorPetr KravaStarsFilip FalcnikSimon HermanKluci JanzuraciA young teenage boy who is addicted to video games. He immensely enjoys the virtual reality into which he slips every time he has a chance. One day he loses a sense of reality and fantasy, goes out determined that he can in reality, be just as strong and clever as the virtual people he encounters in the games. From this moment, the short film Pez (P.E.Z.) becomes a realistic account of a young teenage boy whose psyche is negatively influenced and he goes out killing real people with flesh and blood. Pez (P.E.Z.) shows the dangers of mixing virtual reality and the real world.
- DirectorJuraj NvotaStarsRichard LabudaMilan LasicaLibuse SafránkováTragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Camaraderie, the first big discoveries of love, enemy gang fights and naive ideas are confronted with the reality of adult's world. The film is about the first contacts with bizarre and absurd reality of relationships and attitudes of adults, politics, emigration, but also betrayal and death and about how all those things form and transform the lives of small boys, who are forced to grow up too quickly.
- DirectorStepan AltrichterStarsDan HajekKarel ZimaVladimír SkultétyA young Czech boy, his favorite TV series Knight Rider, and a BMX bike. The true story of the Czech Revolution of 1989.
- DirectorGabriel de UriosteStarsMartin EntlicherMichaela SchönovaViktor Pavel VávraA boy gets tough when dealing with the neighborhood bullies.
- DirectorBobby GarabedianStarsVladimír JavorskýLadislav OndrejLinda RybováA poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.
- DirectorJakub HussarStarsTadeás HussarMikulás VeselyMartina HavelkováAtlas and friend on a fateful journey.
- DirectorRobert HlozStarsHanus BorMartin Eugen KulhánekStanislav LehkýFearing a beating from their parents, a bunch of ten-year olds decide to hide the body of a dead friend, instead of forwarding the matter to the police. But no plan is ever bullet-proof. Or is it?
- DirectorLeo WoodheadStarsJaroslav HorvathIvo HamanTeresa BrannaA young boy descends into the nightmarish world of child trafficking.
- DirectorJirí MádlStarsAlois SvehlíkDuy Anh TranMary HavranováSituated in Prague, a 20-year-old Vietnamese named Song, hoped for a better future in Europe. But now in a Vietnamese district in Prague, he is trapped in a marijuana grow house and has life of a modern slave. Police rounds up the place. Song runs away on the rooftop of a condo building in a nearby district where he breaks down. Mr. Rypar (78) lives alone. He is fond of the old times, living in a strong opposition to modern world. Rypar goes up on the roof and meets Song standing on the very edge of the roof crying and the story begins.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsJan TrískaOldrich KaiserTereza RambaA boy and his family leave Prague during World War II and move to a small village called Slavonice. There, he meets distant relatives and adjusts to a new way of life.
- DirectorVera Plívová-SimkováStarsMilan PadalíkJan KreidlViktor KrálMatej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a glass works where the oldest brother Francek works. They hide into a tub not to be seen by supervisors checking on the ban of children labor. They miss the Epiphany carol (songs and treats door-to-door) and all neighbor village boys again on them in all the neighbor houses. On their way home they are passed by a fast moving big man with a large backpack. The boys send the customs officers, who are pursuing the strange man, to the opposite direction. The man then thanks them and rewards them the next day. Based on fairy-tales and legends the boys think the man is Krakonos (the giant living and ruling in the Giant Mountains).
- DirectorVáclav MarhoulStarsPetr KotlárNina SunevicAlla SokolovaA young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
- DirectorOlmo OmerzuStarsTomás MrvíkJan Frantisek UherEliska KrenkováTwo mischievous adolescent boys embark on a journey of imaginative misadventure and coming-of-age self-discovery, in Olmo Omerzu's road-trip comedy celebrating the need to indulge the innocence, impulsiveness, and irrepressibility of youth.
- DirectorVít KarasStarsFilip AntonioLukás BrezinaJitka CvancarováKindly, mischievous and humorous story about the troubles of a lovesick teenager called Albert.
- DirectorJakub SmídStarsJindrich SkokanJulia IssaPetra SpalkováEleven years old Jacob does not know his Father. His picture is portrayed and idealized by his Mother and his own phantasy. Jacob is an uncontrollable and slightly asocial guy, who is lacking a male role model. He grows up among females- Mother, stepsister Pauline and Grandmother. Grandmother arrives to their small panel block building apartment at beginning of the Story. Jacob's resentment (a runaway escape through foggy neighborhood of concrete block buildings) is his way to finding out what' going on. It is his first disappointment, but also a first step of growing up. tease him. Mother has her hands full with the household and barely makes it. She does not have time to care about her children 's feelings. Money is tight. Among his schoolmates Jacob is considered poor and that bothers him as well.
- DirectorJiri SádekMatej ChlupacekMichal SamirStarsAnna GeislerováKarolína LipowskáZdenek MuchaA 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 wither. At that time, the mythical Noonday Witch begins to materialize. She is coming closer and closer and the question is posed: is the danger real or is it all in the mother's head?
- DirectorVáclav MarhoulStarsJan MedunaPetr VanekRobert NebrenskýSet in the Libyan Desert in World War II, a battalion of Czech soldiers face the siege of Tobruk.
- DirectorVáclav VorlícekStarsRobert HájekKristyna KvetovaStella ZázvorkováA live-action adaptation of the popular children's cartoon series about a couple of school kids who live through an incredible adventure thanks to a magic telephone receiver. In the feature version, the animated characters become normal children to see what real life is all about.
- DirectorDaniel PánekStarsThomas Richard BrentonKlára IssováHynek CermákSchoolboy Dominik decides to play ice hockey and puts together a group of boys. They plan to challenge the older boys from the neighboring village to a match; in addition, Dominik strives for the favor of his classmate Katka.