Petr Vaněk
Also Known As: Petr Vanek
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nové Město na Moravě, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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Tobruk
Overview: It is the story of Jiri and Jan, two Czech soldiers, battling alongside the allied forces against the Germans, during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Jiri Pospichal, eighteen years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death.
Genres: War History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2008-09-04
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The Devil Conspiracy
Overview: A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-13
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Indián
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2022-09-22
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Women in Temptation
Overview: When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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Srdce na dlani
Overview: Josef is looking forward to finally fulfilling his old dream of becoming a street clown after retirement. With his charm, he charms even the vigorous Maruška, the owner of the mobile cafe. It's like the two of you have been looking for each other all your life. But isn't it a little late for fateful love? In addition, his daughter Anička and five-year-old Honzík are currently moving into the villa with Josef. She thinks she's done with men for good, but meeting her old love, Pavel, hits her in the heart. A new girl, Evička, joins Honzík in kindergarten. Honzík experiences the feelings associated with love for the first time, he does not fully understand them, so he gathers advice from his mother, grandfather Josef or sympathetic uncle Karel. He also meets love in kindergarten when he falls in love with Honzík's teacher, Eliška. And to add to the rapprochement, Karl's basset Váleček gets along very well with Elišča's basset Šalina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2022-01-20
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12 Months. A New Fairy Tale
Overview: Girl of our time gets into a dreamlike world. The middle of winter, she shall bring out of the woods bouquet of snowdrops to come New Year, which decided to cancel the evil royal advisor. And only then did she return to her parents.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Nosferatu in Love
Overview: In a fit of rebellion against his director which masks his own dark demons, a tormented movie actor (Mark Strong) starring as Nosferatu runs away to a nearby small Czech town when his young wife leaves him, teaming up with a local petty crook with unexpected, absurdest consequences. Loss and failure find their way to a redemption of sorts for both of them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-08
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Aussig
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-23
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11 Colours of the Bird
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the eleven-year process it took to make The Painted Bird. The narratives of director Václav Marhoul and actor Petr Kotlár weave their way through the various stages of the film's creation, offering their subjective views from the beginning to the last flap of a year-and-a-half long shoot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2020-03-11
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Die Liebe eines Priesters
Overview: Franz Josef Gottlieb's last movie.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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Experiment
Overview: A young woman, Anna, walks the streets of a foreign city. Her mind full of pain. No memory of who she is. and plagued by nightmarish visions. Then she meets Morgan, a man who also has no memory. Forced to trust each other, the two feel a mysterious connection. A strong powerful feeling that bonds the two together Unknown to them their every action is being guided by unseen forces from the dark underground shadows of the city. Anna and Morgan are part of a frightening experiment that will have a terrifying and shocking conclusion. There is no escape in this dark psychological thriller
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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Terezín
Overview: The story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czech violinist, who fall in love with each other during the World War II, in Prague.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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Child 44
Overview: Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Akáty bílé
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1997-03-06
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Happy New Year 2
Overview: In this romantic comedy sequel, Hana prepares for her perfect wedding in Croatia, but rollicking chaos ensues when her three best friends get involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-12-30
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Last Holiday
Overview: The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Matthews.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-13
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Wilson City
Overview: Comedy 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 Eastern Europe. The investigation is being led by an inhomogeneous pair of detectives - a greenhorn and local police cadet named Eisner and an experienced FBI officer Food, who has been sent to Europe by US President Woodrow Wilson himself.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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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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The Painted Bird
Overview: After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2019-09-12
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Interlude In Prague
Overview: The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-25
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Close To Heaven
Overview: Samuel stands on the edge of a hotel roof in the rain and, before he jumps into the street below, he tries to summon up in his mind an image of his homeland.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2005-06-24
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A Soul to Redeem
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Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2017-04-09
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Someone Down There Likes Me
Overview: Confined to a wheelchair, Otto prays for the day when he can get revenge on the men who brutally attacked his wife and daughter.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-04-03
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Toman
Overview: This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-10-04
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Happy New Year
Overview: Longtime friends and strangers mingle while spending the holiday on the snowy Slovakian mountains with an ample dose of ridiculousness and romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2019-12-05
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Stuck with a Perfect Woman
Overview: Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to start anew without his financial support. Eliska starts teaching at a local village school. Since she can't find a lodging, she moves to a former morgue. The small house is already occupied by a quirky and grumpy graveyard keeper named Bozicek. Their house sharing leads to a series of comical conflicts, but they eventually fall in love and Eliska proves to her ex-husband that she is able to stand on her own.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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Štěstí je krásná věc
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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Cesta do nemožna
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2019-10-30
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Vosto5: Pérák
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2020-08-29
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Healing Waters
Overview: The Queen of the Waterland gives the King Juraj access to the water of life when his daughter is seriously ill. However, if the magic fluid falls into the wrong hands, it loses its power.
Genres: Romance Adventure Family
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2020-12-24
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Jan Borna aneb Dokreslení Janka
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2020-08-26
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Přání Ježíškovi
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-11-11
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Serena
Overview: North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-12
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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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Us 2
Overview: A love story of the 21st century. Hoping for change, Ema runs away from her family and leaves her husband. She hides at the apartment of her hairdresser, a gay guy Tony, even though she barely knows him. At the beginning they are merely two strangers, connected by their mutual effort of escaping from their families. They get closer and help each other to overcome the internal, as well as external, obstacles of their lives. Their liberating friendship almost becomes a love affair, despite the fact it cannot be fulfilled. This liberation creates an intense bond between them: a new escape, a new quest. This is a love story of two people and their attempts to escape the trap of their own desires of belonging to somebody.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2014-11-20
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Čerešňový chlapec
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Jako letní sníh – Život J. A. Komenského
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-01-04
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Goldilocks and the Glorious Losers
Overview: Eight chapters on the disaster that ensues after a simple man signs a blank piece of paper when handed a pen.
Genres: Romance Crime Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2022-10-13
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Sleeping City
Overview: All the parents suddenly fall asleep, and children have to survive in the world. A thrilling adventure showing what can happen when chaos reigns and children are forced to face the pitfalls of the world on their own.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-08-19
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Chasing Liberty
Overview: The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger, who also happens to be working undercover for her father.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-09
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