The Cremator

The Cremator

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

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Closely Watched Trains

Closely Watched Trains

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious...

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Run, Waiter, Run!

Run, Waiter, Run!

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...

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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions...

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Six Bears and a Clown

Six Bears and a Clown

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...

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Hodina života

Hodina života

The Valley of the Bees

The Valley of the Bees

Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship...

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Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping

Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping

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

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Mys Dobré naděje

Mys Dobré naděje

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must...

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Cutting It Short

Cutting It Short

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but...

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A Man Who Rose in Price

A Man Who Rose in Price

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...

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Kouzelníkův návrat

Kouzelníkův návrat

Prague Nights

Prague Nights

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

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Joachim, Put It in the Machine

Joachim, Put It in the Machine

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts,...

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Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist

Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to...

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Hotel for Strangers

Hotel for Strangers

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...

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O houslích krále snů

O houslích krále snů

The End of Agent W4C

The End of Agent W4C

The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan...

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