Václav Halama

Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Václav Halama

A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Zora Božinová

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Václav Voska

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juraj Herz

More than twenty years after the Second World War, a mining engineer named Fischer is revealed as a former member of the Gestapo, Karel Kraus. He is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karel Dellapina

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zdeněk Najman

Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jozef Kroner

Genre: Family

Cast: Bohuš Záhorský

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,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bohumila Houdková

Françoise, a French sociology student, moves to Czechoslovakia to write her thesis. She falls in love with Pavel, a professor. But the events...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thalie Frugès

A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jiří Suchý

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vladimír Menšík

Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský

Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiřina Třebická

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiřina Štěpničková

This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Jiří Sovák

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jiří Sovák

The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Naďa Urbánková

The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marta Vančurová

The summer holidays are approaching and the children are bragging about all the exciting places they are going to visit during the long-awaited two...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jiří Kúkol

The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears...

Genre: Family

Cast: Lubomír Lipský

A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to him. He feels that he saw her in an old castle,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jana Brejchová

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Iva Janžurová

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek

In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martin Štěpánek

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miloš Kopecký

Orphan Jirka lives alone with his grandfather by the river. He spends all his free time by the water and does not grow up with the other children....

Genre: Family

Cast: Ilja Černohorský

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rudolf Deyl

Genre: Music

Cast: Jiřina Bohdalová

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pavel Landovský

A young teacher is sent to a rural reform school, where he is faced with brutality of the inmates.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Vyskočil