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- DirectorPetr KazdaTomás WeinrebStarsMichalina OlszanskaMartin PechlátKlára MelískováBased on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
- DirectorJulius SevcíkStarsMilan KnazkoDagmar HavlováPavel GajdosIn a world of decay even the most horrific deeds seem normal. Life account of the most dreaded German serial killer of the 1930s.
- DirectorDavid OndricekStarsIvan TrojanSebastian KochSona NorisováIn the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
- DirectorJan PachlStarsPavel ReznícekSona NorisováLívia BielovicKpt. Kalina (Pavel Řezníček) a policeman, a loving husband and a great father, is a victim of a car accident. From the position of a ghost, he follows the investigation of his own death. There are many humorous and unexpected situations. Gradually, small indicia begin to appear that everything may not have been as it sounded.
- DirectorVít OlmerStarsLukás VaculíkJirí KrampolKarla Triska
- DirectorPetr SíchaStarsTomás MagnusekDavid DolanskýLadislav PotmesilThe movie is firmly grounded in reality and shows what happens when the system fails. The story revolves around children from disadvantaged families. A tragedy occurs, spinning their behavior into a dramatic tale free of clichés and pretense, revealing their characters and showing that nothing is as simple as it at first appears.
- DirectorF.A. BrabecStarsMatej StropnickýNina DivískováKrystof HádekThe time-tested poem, more than a century old, transposed into a stirring story of undying love and passion. The story takes place in an unspecified, distant past, but the young heroes are more or less contemporary characters.
- DirectorJirí ChlumskýStarsOndrej SokolJakub KohákPetr NároznýComedy tells the story of two men who are much alike but their temperament and life story are as different as day and night. They have never seen each other, they have no idea about each other's mutual existence and it would remain like that if faith had not put them together... And from now on it is a great comedy of confusion.
- DirectorTomas MasinStarsJirí MachácekVojtech DykTatiana PauhofováComedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War has begun a rampage in Wilson City, a jerkwater town somewhere in Central Europe. The investigation is being led by an inhomogeneous pair of detectives - a greenhorn and local police cadet named Kvido Eisner (Vojtech Dyk) and an experienced FBI officer Aaron Food (Jirí Machácek), who has been sent to Europe by US President Woodrow Wilson himself.
- DirectorPetr NikolaevStarsKarel RodenKlára IssováJan Kanyza
- DirectorJirí SvobodaStarsMichal DlouhýJan DolanskýRichard KrajcoA thriller loosely based on one of the most violent Czech criminal cases of the nineties, popularly known as the Orlík murders. The film delves into the motivation behind the killings, exposing their exceptional cruelty and an absolute absence of moral values. The perpetrators executed four people on their way to achieving material gain. Two of the bodies were found at the bottom of Orlík reservoir, the third perished in a bomb blast, and the forth was shot at home...
- DirectorVladimír MichálekStarsJirí MachácekEva HerzigovaAnna GeislerováStoryteller is a love story of a man balancing on the edge of love , passion and lies.
- DirectorF.A. BrabecStarsBarbora SeidlováMartin StropnickýJan PotmesilA woman is savagely raped and murdered. Several years later the police start to put together the clues and make progress on the case.
- DirectorJan PachlStarsHynek CermákPredrag BjelacFilip CapkaA film based on a book by Jaroslav Kmenta tells the story of a mafioso who got rich by tax fraud of billions of crowns in transactions with petroleum products and who later tried to gain control of the state-owned petroleum concern. The main character is the gangster Radim Kraviec (Hynek Cermák). He was always capable of violence, but when his father is abducted and killed by a competing mafia, he is changed into a murdering monster.
- DirectorZdenek ViktoraStarsHa Thanh SpetlíkováDavid NovotnýJán JackuliakYoung policewoman from Czech Vietnamese community joins a sarcastic captain to investigate murder of the killer of her high school friend shortly after he was released from a correctional facility.
- DirectorRoman VojkuvkaStarsJiri ChromeckaAndrea CivanovaAndrea CivánováConfined to a wheelchair, Otto prays for the day when he can get revenge on the men who brutally attacked his wife and daughter.
- DirectorZdenek ViktoraStarsJan DolanskýErika DeutschovaHelena DvorákováFormer cop Filip Marold (Jan Dolanský) doesn't want to be reminded of some things from his past. But others remind him... He works as a private detective, sleeps with his secretary and spies on people for money. All up to the moment when he meets seductive Raluca (Malvína Pachlová) and his life turns upside down. Is it just a coincidence? Fate? Or has someone set a trap? Even in his wildest dreams he wouldn't imagine the things that were about to happen. Things that involve sex, murder, the big reveal and a harsh reminder of that damn past...
- DirectorTomás VorelStarsTomás Vorel Jr.Jirí MádlEva HolubováA comedy about students, teachers, parents and graffiti.
- DirectorMichal KollarKamil MisztalStarsMaciej StuhrOldrich KaiserMarián GeisbergHot summer of year 1992. The world has seen the Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia fall. This is what happens to detective Richard Krauz (played by Maciej Stuhr, the son of legendary Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr), when he is handed a case of a mysterious body, found in the course of the reconstruction of a cemetery. The body has a nail stuck in its skull, indicating the person did not go silently into the night. Richard wants to keep it ethical, but once he discovers that communist secret police was behind the torturing and the particular body is a sexton, related to a history of blackmailing crimes committed on priests, he soon finds himself on a slippery slope as the trail leads to an expert on interrogations within the communist secret police, the so-called "Red Captain".
- DirectorPetr JáklStarsTatiana DykováKonstantin LavronenkoVladimír DlouhýDeals with the most famous criminal in Czech Republic, the lawyer who continuously tries to free him; the circle of people on both sides of the law who want to keep him in jail and his infamous escape from prison.
- DirectorMiroslav OndrusStarsOndrej VetchýOldrich KaiserIgor ChmelaVendetta is an uncompromising thriller, an exciting story about revenge and the clash between two characters. Over the course of a few hours in a single day revenge intertwines the fates of a number of people. Which of them is the murderer, and who is the victim? The main events play out during only three hours. Revenge has pitted two men against each other and two policemen have also been dragged into their conflict.
- DirectorVladimír MichálekStarsOldrich KaiserMatej HádekKrystof HádekFive bored guys get a thrill from dressing up like police commandos and "raiding" wrongdoers until they accidentally stumble onto an actual crime.
- DirectorRadek BajgarStarsIva JanzurováMartin HofmannTatiana DykováAn elderly woman decides to act on her own with a rifle as she gets fed up with injustice.
- DirectorVáclav MarhoulStarsTomás HanákVilma CibulkováPavel LiskaInspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe, a romantic cowboy, who takes the law into his own hands in the rough prairie of a large city. He is honest, skeptical and hardworking. He toils away on the cases that he solves after numerous mistakes, while often being tormented and beaten up by criminals and even the police. In this world of violence, mistrust and corruption, everything is for sale. Everything except him.
- DirectorJirí ChlumskýStarsMichal SuchánekOndrej VetchýTomás HanákA film about the state of the world at the turn of the millennium. Three friends once attempted to escape totalitarian Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic. But the attempt to emigrate ended in fiasco. For one it meant prison. For the other two it meant lifelong frustration. The three meet again in scenic modern Prague... The film is a reconstruction of the two biggest robberies in Czech history. During the first robbery the thieves managed to steal 28 million crowns from a Prague post office. In the course of second robbery an armored car transporting money was liberated of 150 million crowns. How are they enjoying their money today? But even more importantly, how to put it into circulation without anyone catching on to them? Our three find out that it is much more difficult than they thought.
- DirectorJaroslav FuitStarsGregory FinnJakub Wagner
- A man spends his days performing routine activities, choirs and personal rituals. But his solitary, monotonous life gets occasionally disturbed...
- DirectorPetr MarekStarsPetr MarekJirí NebeskýJirí Nezhyba
- DirectorJan BubenicekStarsAntonín Jan AbrhámJosef Jan AbrhámJan BubenicekMurderous Tales is a special effect animated feature film combining live actors with 3D/2D animation, puppets and back projection. It contains three stories while each episode uses different production technology and is in a different genre. All the episodes are about double standards and deal with heroism and death.
- DirectorTomás KuceraStarsIveta BartosováIrena MáchováPetra HorváthováThe little town of Petrovice has been terrorized by a serial killer who is murdering the students of the local high school. Who is the killer?
- DirectorVít OlmerStarsMichaela BendovaStepán BenoniOtmar BrancuzskýA sequel to a Czech cult film Bony a klid (1988) about a group of money dealers, who trafficked foreign currencies and so called "bony" during the Communist era. Bony served as exchange vouchers used in shops with otherwise unavailable goods from Western countries. Any unauthorized trading of these currencies was punishable by law. However, as long as the police also got its cut, everyone kept quiet. Twenty five years later the group of small time criminals is back. They quickly shook the demise of their lucrative régime business off and adapted to a new market. They now specialize in governmental and European Union funding. A new young protagonist Martin (Jakub Prachar) who, like his predecessor, comes from a small city to Prague is dragged into their shady dealings...
- DirectorTomás MagnusekStarsTomás MagnusekIlona SvobodováTomás TöpferThe teacher Tomás Majer, who came to one former special school in 2010, has disappeared. He came to the school a few months after his sister, also a teacher, was murdered. The boys that murdered Jana Majerová died mysteriously during the school year. It seems that Tomás Majer most likely cold-bloodedly revenged his sister's death. Is there no problem with that? Will the police apprehend him? Will he face trial? What do the children's parents think? And Tomás Majer's parents? Society? What will happen when similar schools are shut down? The film that shocked the public two years ago is coming to its conclusion. A drama that plainly shows the hard reality of this day and age, that shows how far things can go it we only idly watch.....
- DirectorMilan SteindlerStarsJan DolanskýRadek KucharMichal DocolomanskýGirlfriend of young Jakub is found dead and with his best friend Radek is looking for her murderer to avenge her.
- DirectorKarel JanákStarsVojtech KotekJirí MádlMartin PísaríkGroup of young rock boys need money for their performing. Soo, they decide to rob big drug boss. Czech comedy.
- DirectorWiktor GrodeckiStarsDavid SvecKlára IssováPavel Skrípal
- DirectorJan LengyelStarsTomás MagnusekJan StastnýMartin Dejdar
- DirectorOndrej SokolStarsOndrej SokolMartin FingerJana KrausováStory follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother.
- DirectorDan SvátekStarsVáclav JirácekIvan FranekMarián GeisbergHynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.
- DirectorRobert SedlácekStarsSimona BabcákováRoman BohácJan BudarThirty-year-old Libor (Igor Chmela) is the father of two children, a former teacher, now a senior bank executive whose company went bankrupt because fraud by the managers was uncovered. The investigators offer to plea bargain in exchange for Libor's cooperation, and also suggest what all they know about him. Apparently there is plenty for a prison sentence. Libor takes time to reflect and convinces his wife to go away for a few days. Is he fleeing from justice, or does he merely want to delay the moment of truth, when he tells his wife he will have to go to jail? Or is there something else going on entirely?
- DirectorPetr NikolaevStarsOndrej VetchýRoman BohácVladimír BrabecThe Godfather's Story tells about the rise and fall of Vedral (Ondrej Vetchý), a person who worked his way up from dealing in digital watches to the position of a gray eminence of Czech politics. Two worlds collide in the film - the belief in the right of the stronger and smarter and the belief in justice. We follow the riveting duel between a representative of law and order and a person who changes the rules to suit himself. Police Inspector Cajthaml (Lukás Vaculík) has dedicated his life to trailing the Godfather and he never lost his faith in the victory of justice.
- DirectorJan PachlStarsHynek CermákPredrag BjelacFilip CapkaAfter narrowly escaping arrest in Prague, Czech mobster Radim "Kácko" Kraviec flees first to Seychelles and then to South Africa where he continues with his criminal endeavours. However, his illicit activities cannot go unnoticed forever.