Jan Budař
Also Known As: Jan Budar, Pavel Beďura
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Frýdlant, Československo
Adult: No
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Princ Mamánek
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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O pokladech
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Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-12-30
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Empties
Overview: Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2007-03-08
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The Exhibition
Overview: The film tells about a small museum, where the economic boom has not yet arrived. It appears as if time has stopped in this national museum, a museum which should serve as a show window for Slovakia. Stuffed animals are covered with dust and the three employees working as caretakers of the huge building look like the museum exhibits themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-24
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Operation Dunaj
Overview: Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed Ladybird, which is the last to leave the barracks.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-07-21
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The Protector
Overview: A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia calls for more and more collaboration, his relationship with his wife spirals downward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-09-22
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Hodina klavíru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2007-09-23
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Up and Down
Overview: Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are responsible for running an illegal baby adoption center. Lubos and Eman make attempts to sell the baby to Miluska and Frantisek, a barren couple.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Rules of Lies
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Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2006-11-29
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Boredom in Brno
Overview: Black-and-white comedy about two young people who want to lose, finally, their innocence, and about life in a very boring city of Brno ...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2003-04-22
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Svatba na bitevním poli
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2008-01-10
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Czech Made Man
Overview: The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by stripping companies, making crooked deals and crony-ism, but by blazing his own trail like Schweikesque self-made man. He realizes early on that he has nobody but himself to rely on. During the totalitarian regime of the 80s, he ambles along his oddball path and then experiences the Velvet Revolution atypically, too - in an asylum amidst nut-cases. After the Revolution, he really gets rolling. To Germany and back. To prison and back. To China and back. The intriguing and endless opportunities afforded by the Internet eventually blossom into virtual prosperity. The hero has everything and is even planning a highly unorthodox family. A happy ending is nigh, until everything goes up in smoke, of course...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2011-04-27
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Muzika
Overview: In 1980s CSSR, depressed Martin tries to overcome the feeling of being locked up with jazz music.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2008-04-17
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The Devil Knows Why
Overview: A good king rules this land, but still things are going from bad to worse. The point is that the greedy Minister of State has an interesting pact with the Devil — for bringing the kingdom into a state of dire poverty and the king to hell, he himself would sit on the throne. And he would have been well nigh successful, were it not for Princess Annie, Filip and magic Apolena — because true love cannot be quelled even by the Devil's machinations.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2003-02-27
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Polski film
Overview: “The fact that I’m playing myself doesn’t mean that it’s me.” Four old schoolmates, today well-known Czech actors (Pavel Liška, Tomáš Matonoha, Josef Polášek and Marek Daniel), decide to make a movie together. Their ambitious colleague Jan Budař takes up directing duties and financing has arrived from Poland. What started out pleasantly enough, however, soon goes awry. Liška’s pronunciation difficulties, Daniel’s alter ego Havlát, and Matonoha’s financial machinations turn the shoot into a fight for survival. More than just a film about friendship and the absurdity of actors’ lives, director Marek Najbrt gives us a witty meditation on reality and illusion, and a unique take on the reality film genre. One of Pavel Liška’s on-set comments (“I didn’t know if I should act as if I were acting, or act as if I weren’t acting, or just not act at all”) illustrates the provocative nature of Najbrt’s subversive, quasi-documentary game.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-07-12
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The Confidant
Overview: New husband Adam reluctantly takes a job with state security in a totalitarian country, thus becoming a secret police agent. This "contract with the devil" helps secure a flat for the happy couple, as well as a prosperous future. However, he soon finds out that he too is under surveillance.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2012-04-19
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Otec neznámý aneb cesta do hlubin duše výstrojního náčelníka
Overview: Comedy about soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2001-05-09
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Dirty Soul
Overview: When sisters Jana and Anna meet their half-brother at their father's funeral, the siblings' lives entwine as they navigate relationships and setbacks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2004-10-14
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Hrubeš a Mareš jsou kamarádi do deště
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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Réveillon
Overview: On New Year's Eve, just a few hours before the breakup of Czechoslovakia, the Varchal family meets in Banská Bystrica in front of the church to baptize the newest addition to the family, little Zuzka, the daughter of Petr and Helena. However, Peter misses the baptism, because he got his hands on the file of his father Daniel, from which he learns that his father was led as an agent of the ŠtB. When Peter finally arrives home, he immediately confronts Daniel's father with his discovery. Daniel's heart can't handle it and he has a heart attack. His life is saved by the quick intervention of a family friend and the rest of the family. Daniel is taken to the hospital. After Peter reveals the reason for his father's collapse, more and more Varchal secrets begin to emerge, and the argument about the father and his motives gather momentum. As they leaf through the file together, the family is shaken to its foundations with each subsequent page.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2023-10-19
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Woman Without Piano
Overview: A quietly comic look at a Madrid housewife's attempt to escape from her mundane and tedious existence. Encountering mostly impersonal bureaucracy, she has no specific plan for what she wants to do, just the fervent hope that she will find the adventure she's so desperately seeking.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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Halt, Or I'll Miss!
Overview: It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1998-03-12
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Tender Waves
Overview: The congenial Vojta is bashful and his family is batty. His short-tempered father, who once failed to swim the English Channel, wants him to be a competing swimmer and his loving mother, a former child ice revue star, sees a talented pianist in her son. But Vojta has completely different priorities - most of all his red-haired classmate Ela, an enchanting synchronized swimmer who is leaving for Paris in November. If Vojta doesn't do something radical, and fast, Ela will disappear behind the Iron Curtain forever. The year is 1989.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2013-12-18
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Delight
Overview: The film's main theme is obsession. An obsession with love, with art, originality, copying, with success, money and... with oneself. Sooner or later, if we lose our rational upper hand over it and let ourselves be dragged down by it, every obsession leads to destruction. But it is only when being dragged down, in spite of all the cuts and bruises, that we find a unique DELIGHT, if only for a few short moments - and what else is life really about? It is like a drug. What at first seems to be weak and trivial is capable of expanding and growing into a serious problem that can appear to be absolutely incomprehensible and absurd to those who have never experienced anything like it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2013-12-05
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Long Live the Family!
Overview: Libor, a former teacher, enjoys a well-paid position as a bank manager, living in a luxurious villa outside Prague. His business partners are taken into custody and the authorities have a few questions for him to answer. Rather than wait around, he decides to take off to Moravia with his wife and two children. In the process, he pretends that everything is normal, rediscovers the value of family life, meets up with a former colleague lost in provincial obscurity, and becomes the object of a manhunt. Libor is not a criminal type, merely someone who signs cheques and is drawn into a business world failing to recognise its own criminality (he doesn’t even flee the country).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2011-10-13
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Winter '89
Overview: Love story against the background of the fall of the Wall. On New Year’s Eve 1989 Maria’s ex-husband turns up on her doorstep. She lives in Rotterdam now and he has just fled crumbling Communism in their homeland. A long flashback makes it clear why he is not welcomed with open arms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1998-12-09
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Natěrač
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-05-17
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Vaclav
Overview: Vaclav, the village loser, in his 40's bordering on autism, lives with his widowed mother on the outskirts of the village. He is seen by villagers as the local fool, nothing but a constant pain for them, but there is a skeleton in the village closet concerning his father's death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2007-12-06
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The Rain Fairy
Overview: The elements that rule Earth - Air, Fire, Earth and Water - are in their "regular inspection tour". We are following Water, in the form of the Rain Fairy. Traversing the land dressed like a poor woman, she learns that people really have begun focusing mainly on money and that love and goodness are disappearing.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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Bethlehem Light
Overview: A well-known writer now aged 75 is aware of his increasing age and the risk that his literary style will grow worn. His everyday existence is enlivened by characters from his stories, who tend to enter reality in unexpected ways, at various stages of completeness and with all kinds of strange demands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2022-03-10
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Climbing Paradise
Overview: The story of the dramatic fate of the Czech climber Josef speck and his comrades, executed by the Nazis in April 1945 in Theresienstadt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2016-10-27
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Anatomie gagu
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Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2008-10-27
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Murderous Tales
Overview: MURDEROUS TALES is a special effect animated feature film combining live actors with 3D/2D animation, puppets and back projection. It contains three stories: Antonio Cacto, Lighthouse and The Big Man, plus three ultra-short films called Charge the Dragon. Each episode uses different production technology and is in a different genre, but both their form and their content are related. All the episodes are about double standards and the topics of heroism and death. Something very small meets something very big (a tiny knight meets a huge dragon, an old Mexican goblin meets a man, a tiny Professor meets real-life cows, two mobsters meet the Big Man). All these meetings result in the heroic death of the small principal characters. Each script sees heroism and death differently.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2016-03-24
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Close To The Sultan
Overview: An early 20th-century sultan is introduced to the cinematograph with the help of a former operator for the Lumiere brothers.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Adventure Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-11-15
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All or Nothing
Overview: Linda and Vanda, two good-looking women in their thirties, are inseparable friends and co-owners of a small bookstore in the city center. Linda is divorced, educated and practical, has a little daughter and a sense of responsibility. Vanda, on the contrary, is single and free, attracting men as a magnet, but none of them is able to keep up with her spontaneity. Edo, shy, sensitive, and introverted gay working with them in the bookstore, longs for love for ages too. The lives of this trio get finally tangled by several men, while everything turns up differently than any of them had expected.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2017-01-12
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Dark Spirits
Overview: In this tense, heart-stopping supernatural-thriller, blonde beauty Eva foresees the brutal murder of her sister, Tereza – with whom she has recently argued – in a dream. Still angry, Tereza refuses to heed her warnings and shortly thereafter dies under gruesome and mysterious circumstances. In mourning and wracked by guilt, Eva moves to another city with her boyfriend. But the increasingly intense and disturbing visions continue to plague her … as well as inexplicable sightings of her dead sibling. In search of an explanation, she realizes that the evil behind her sister’s death is now pursing her!
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Good Plumber
Overview: The story is about a plumber, who is called Good man from the bones. He is not afraid of any work, he manages all the work he gets. Wittily responds to every situation that befalls him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2016-10-06
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Anthropoid
Overview: In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
Genres: History Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-12
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Love Life of a Gentle Coward
Overview: Sasa is an unsuccessful writer who works as a restaurant critic. His life starts to change when he meets and falls in love with Ines who works in a private sports center. However, things get complicated when he writes a bad review for the restaurant owned by a well-connected man. To get his life in order, Sasa has to face up to all of his character flaws.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Insect
Overview: The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of "The Insect Play", a famous satirical work from 1922 by the brothers Karel and Josef Čapek which features insects with decidedly human traits: greed, egocentrism, jealousy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Animation
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-02-19
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Ta třetí
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2002-03-24
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Nebe a Vincek
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Ruth to vidí jinak
Overview: Ruth and Magda have been inseparable friends since childhood. They both went to college and both fell in love with the same guy. Ruth has won the fight for love, and has put Magda before the tough decision: to give up Adam and maintain friendship with Ruth, or give preference to his heart? When Adam gets a dream internship abroad and leaves for Austria, Ruth takes his fresh pregnancies and refuses to go with him. But in time, Ruth convinces Magda to start behind Adam and try to get him back. However, Magda exploits the situation, acquires Adam for herself and marries him abroad. After years, Magda returns home and the old injustices come to life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2005-11-06
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Champions
Overview: Ice hockey is a Czech national obsession, and the country's victory over Russia in the 1969 World Championships, the year following the Soviet invasion, is a celebrated moment in its history. In Marek Najbrt's black comedy, the heroic exploits take place only on a black and white tv screen as a group of representative misfits gather and watch the game in a desolate village on the Czech border. While consisting of recognisable types, Najbrt's bleak portrait reveals a world of alcoholism, debt, racism, bigotry, and infidelity that trails behind the dreams of nationalism and bears little resemblance to the fantasies of the new consumerism. A clever and multi-levelled film, it provides a sharp antidote to the reconciliatory charms of the conventional Czech comedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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The Ferrari Dino Girl
Overview: It's nighttime in Prague, 21 August 1968. Soviet troops and tanks are occupying the city - random attacks, soldiers shooting, bodies lying dead on the sidewalk. With an impromptu crew, the director (Karel Roden) captures some unique evidence - material which is, however, worthless in occupied Prague; it has to be shown to the rest of the world. So, while the Soviets are concocting false reports of heartfelt receptions without military resistance for propaganda purposes, the director sets off on a risky trip across the closed Czech-Austrian border to Vienna.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-01-28
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Laika
Overview: Life is not easy for Laika, a dog on the outskirts of a big Russian city. She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics. Soon after her lift-off into space, a number of animals follow that are hurriedly launched from Houston and Baikonur. The animals travel astray, but finally manage, with the help of a black hole, to colonize a faraway planet. After a short period of harmonious, undisturbed co-existence with indigenous life forms, however, first human cosmonaut run ashore on their planet, and their harmonious life, indeed their very survival, are suddenly in jeopardy.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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Medieval
Overview: The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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The Magic Quill
Overview: The devil's magic quill keeps a tight record of sins. But when this precious artifact is stolen, a demon must find a way to make things right again.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-11-29
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Talks with TGM
Overview: On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is based on quotes from a future book and their mutual correspondence, considerably freeing the original format of literary conversation from binding conventions. Capek and Masaryk reproach and offend each other, but they also ask key personal questions and questions about the social functions of a writer and politician respectively. "It's a film about two extraordinary men; it's about the fact that emotions can be sometimes more powerful than ideas even in such exceptional people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-10-18
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Heart Beat 3D
Overview: A visual dreamscape of Prague streets, a hallucinatory vision of a world from the operating table for robotic heart surgeries, collaged together with the stories narrated by the mysterious Dr. B, who is a gifted surgeon at the centre of a conspiracy and a criminal ring trafficking in human parts, especially hearts. Because that’s where the world has ended up – humans thirsting for endless lives and shadowy businessmen and dealmakers taking advantage of this hunger. Set to original music by Němec’s student and fellow filmmaker Petr Marek and his band Midi Lidi, the rich soundscape of the film creates a distinct counterpart to the freewheeling visuals shot digitally in 3D. The former Czech president Václav Havel makes an appearance in the film recalling a script he wrote in the 1960s with Němec, his distant cousin, which the present film utilises as a reflecting surface.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2010-12-16
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The Butcher of Prague
Overview: Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2011-06-02
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Praho, má lásko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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Toyen
Overview: Jan Nemec, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave, creates an original portrait of one of the most provocative artists of the 20th century: Toyen (Marie Cerminova). As a female artist, Toyen broke through the male-dominated art world to create paintings and drawings often erotic in nature. She co-founded the surrealist movement in her native Prague, survived the Nazis and the Communists, maintained artistic and personal relationships with artists Jindrich Heisler (whom she hid during WWII) and Jindrich Styrsky.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2005-11-03
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August Fools
Overview: An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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Vesnice roku
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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The Meaning and Mystery of Life
Overview: What is the meaning of life? What is love, humor, fear and death? Is it all just a dream? Who are we and where are we heading? Will we wake up, will we remember?
Genres: Animation Documentary Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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Osudové peníze
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2010-09-26
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Zlatovláska
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2025-01-23
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The Crow
Overview: Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-21
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