Virginity

The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era... The film lingers over its characters’ habitats and haunts, finding psychological truths in what each owns or desires, and countering every Hollywood-ready scene of gleaming restaurants and dazzling penthouses with realist moments of employment lines and crammed flats. Vavra’s classical camerawork and aura of romantic defeatism give Virginity a force comparable to the master ...

Muži nestárnou

Wolf Trap

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial politician (Miroslav Dolozai) who enters into a marriage of convenience with a smotheringly possessive -- and much older -- woman (Jirina Sejbavola). Hoping to temporarily escape his overbearing wife's clutches, the husband strikes up a friendship with her young ward (Jana Brejchova). The relationship blossoms into a deep abiding love, but the jellyfish husband can't bring himself to declare his ard...

Silent Barricade

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

V horách duní

Barbora Hlavsová

Městečko na dlani

The Way of the Cross

O ševci Matoušovi

Jménem Jeho Veličenstva

Jan Cimbura

Píseň léta

Dog's Heads

Dog's Heads (Czech: Psohlavci) is a 1955 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič, based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

Capek's Tales

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

Fučík

Battalion

Venice Film Festival 1937

Návrat presidenta dr. Edvarda Beneše do Prahy 16. května 1945

The World Belongs to Us

One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.

Karel Hynek Mácha

Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha

Pacientka dr. Hegla