Zdeněk Kryzánek

Marketa Lazarová

František Vláčil

František Velecký, Magda Vášáryová

Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.

Witchhammer

Otakar Vávra

Vladimír Šmeral, Elo Romančík

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.

Svědomí

Jiří Krejčík

Miloš Nedbal, Marie Vášová

Инспектор Карел Долежал был послан проверить работу страхового общества небольшого провинциального города Остравы. Директора общества Вербла не оказалось на месте, и Долежал весь день проработал вдвоём со своей секретаршей Властой. Страховые дела, казалось, были в полном порядке, и после работы довольный Карел и Власта отправились в ресторан. Проведя ночь вместе, они оба возвращаются домой на его машине. Однако, из-за невнимательности во время поездки, они сбивают мальчика. Карел покидает место преступления. Он никому не сообщает о том, что случилось. Затем, когда он читает в газете, что мальчик не пережил аварию, он начинает страдать от угрызений совести. Он рассказывает своей жене о несчастном случае, а не о своей неверности…

Údolí včel

František Vláčil

Jan Kačer, Věra Galatíková

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, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to discover his father to be dead, Ondrej now not only assumes control of his father's properties, but seeks to marry his former stepmother.

Smuteční slavnost

Zdeněk Sirový

Jaroslava Tichá, Josef Somr

Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). While Matylda hopes to have a funeral for Jan in the small town where they once lived, there are complications. Years earlier, Jan spoke out against the Communist government and was consequently expelled from the town. When Matylda fails to convince a local politician to allow the ceremony, she uses her husband's funeral as a public show of dissent.

Jumping Over Puddles

Karel Kachyňa

Vladimír Dlouhý, Zdena Hadrbolcová

This Czechoslovakian children’s film takes place during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The young son of a horse trainer loves nothing more than riding his horse, until he is stricken by polio…

I, Mournful God

Antonín Kachlík

Miloš Kopecký, Hana Lelitová

Adolf (Miloš Kopecký), the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka (Hana Lelitová), a novice opera singer. The girl, however, prefers famous men and Adolf thus does not have a single chance with her. One day in a hospital, he meets a Greek partisan named Apostolek (Pavel Landovský) who impresses him with his spontaneity and ease in solving all problems, especially those with women. Adolf has an idea for a revenge. He makes Apostolek familiar with social manners, dresses him after the latest fashion and introduces him to Janicka as a Greek conductor. Janicka instantly falls in love with the made-up composer and Apostolek does no better.

Езоп

Rangel Vulchanov

Georgi Kaloyanchev, Dorotea Toncheva

This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people with his wisdom in their struggle for freedom and happiness.

Karlovarští poníci

Jiří Hanibal

Barbora Landová, Vladimír Zátka

Angelika, a ten years old daughter of a spa visitor Bachmann is terribly bored in Karlovy Vary spa. Her father enjoys different spa procedures, trying to lose some weight, but the little girl feels to be only waiting for something to enjoy. Moreover, she cannot speak any Czech unlike her father. Kája, a son of the hotel receptionist Vlasta, attempts to amuse her despite he cannot speak German. Both children make friends although there is the language barrier.

The Legend of the Silver Fir

František Vláčil

Július Vašek, Zdeněk Kryzánek

According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's cottage hangs a picture showing silver firs, a person falling from a height and a watch. In art lessons Ondra paints trees of the same kind. - One day Lojzek Hojgr, a man who climbs fir trees to gather the seeds, comes to see Ondra's parents. Long-ago Ondra's father has had such a job and Lojzek is his long-time friend. Hojgr moves into a half-ruined wood cabin. Ondra's father takes him on a visit to Lojzek and both demonstrate the beautiful but dangerous work of seed-gathering to the boy.

The Nun's Night

Karel Kachyňa

Jana Brejchová, Mnislav Hofmann

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the mass closure of monasteries and convents.

A Game without Rules

Jindřich Polák

Svatopluk Matyáš, Jiří Adamíra

A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery away in a stolen car and that very night hide the loot tens of kilometers outside Prague in a forest. Then the three robbers part with each other. One of them, Burian, leaves in the same car, the other two, Duda and Hovorka, take to flight in another car, which soon ends up in a car crash. Hovorka dies in the accident, but Duda survives and hides in an abandoned cottage. Burian is arrested, Duda is traced out by a police dog. Duda confesses to the robbery to the criminologist Málek, but refuses to say where is the jewelery. The robber then begins to shoot and Málek kills him in self-defense. The court fails to prove Litera's involvement in the robbery and the only one convicted is Burian. The disappointed Málek leaves the police and begins to work as a cab driver.

Pasťák

Hynek Bočan

Ivan Vyskočil, Vilém Besser

Černý prapor

Vladimír Čech

Jaroslav Mareš, František Peterka

A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.

Case for a Rookie Hangman

Pavel Juráček

Lubomír Kostelka, Klára Jerneková

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 man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.

Maratón

Ivo Novák

Jaromír Hanzlík, Jana Brejchová

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.