Czechoslovakia Movies

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher’s garden. The teacher thinks…

An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods inhabit the world, the natives possess metal swords, even though…

Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.

The title “All My Good Countrymen” is not without irony as this epic tale of Czech village life from shortly after the end of the Second World War concentrates on…

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child’s…

A synagogue service in Bohemia, where the Torah scrolls are ceremoniously taken out and read, intercut with images of a Jewish cemetery.

A Jewish doctor helps a political fugitive during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.

This is an engaging drama by director Karel Kachyna about the growing pains of a young teen (Jorga Kotrbova) and the hardships of a noble steed mistreated by a cruel…

A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Julie is a bankrupt merchant’s daughter who as the only one of the three daughters chooses to save…

In the 1950’s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen…

A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

A series of loosely connected shorts comprised of three tales representing different aspects of love: temptation, dreams, and adventure.

Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly, they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which…

A queen is so vain she needs the magical mirror the Black Knight forged to tell her daily she’s the belle of the realm. When it adds Snowwhite, the king’s…

A fairy-tale about the power of love. The old king Pravoslav feels it is time to entrust the rule over his kingdom to one of his three daughters – the…

In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who…

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the…

We see the box set of the title, including “one mean, stupid cat”; “one sweet, lovable mouse” and other items. We see them used in two sequences, set against blank…

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

A historic mega-film, one family saga, three generations (1887 -1917) assimilated to the bee community in the hive. The queen bee serves as a big mother that symbolizes the family…

A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.

Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a…

The stories of Baron Münchhausen were enriched by Karel Zeman with a character of a modern astronaut Tommy and compare two different worlds – the world of a rococo cavalier…

The story of High school in Czechoslovakia during occupation by Nazi Germany, where three students are arrested by Gestapo.

In the 1800s, a baron, who is the owner of a castle known as The Devil’s Castle and who is also an obsessed opera fan, keeps the body of his…

A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his…

The lacking attitude of a conscripted university graduate places him at odds with the power and doctrine of his military superiors. His secret relationship with the wife of a superior…

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 collecting cash…

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his “fear powder” the students experience a series of hallucinations.

A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.

A homebody hobbit finds himself going on a quest to save a dwarven treasure from a dragon in this loose adaptation of the classic novel.

Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men’s wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend’s wife, but falls…

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman’s little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused…

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their…

Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it’s climax in…

When a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people. Among them Angelika, who just…

Kapitán Dabač stream online free with English Subtitles

A few days in the life of a model in Czechoslovakia in the ’60s

Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia…

A four-year-old boy is drafted into the army.