The 50 Best Czech Movies Ever Made, According to Czechs
Over at the Czech version of the Internet Movie Database, a compilation of the highest-rated Czech movies yields some interesting results
May 22, 2017
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Over at the Czech version of the Internet Movie Database, a compilation of the highest-rated Czech movies yields some interesting results
The latest film from Czech director Bohdan Sláma is now playing in Prague cinemas and will debut internationally at Tribeca
The WWII-era biopic made Czech Lion history tonight with 12 wins including Best Picture, Director, and Actor
This new Czech movie hasn’t fared well with foreign press, but it’s one of the best-produced flicks to come out of the country in some time
From Saturday to Sunday, one of the first Czechoslovak sound films, will screen at Ponrepo on March 8
Všechno nejlepší, Miloši! The famed Czech director celebrates his 85, and Kino Aero unveils a mini-retrospective
The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich is brought to vivid life in this Prague-shot film, which premieres locally on Czech Statehood Day
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre meets domestic Czech melodrama in this new feature now playing in Prague with English subtitles
Czech director Jan Němec recounts his life story – with a good dash of fiction – in his autobiographical final film
A teacher misuses her students to earn parental favors in communist-era Czechoslovakia in this biting new drama
An off-the-wall performance by star Karel Roden highlights this hot-button Czech dark comedy
The stop-motion DIY handymen, among the Czech Republic's most beloved cartoon characters, are now on the big screen
Jiří Bartoška's sympathetic turn highlights this unexpectedly deep – and bitterly funny – new Czech comedy-drama
This striking new black & white biopic turns the infamous Czech mass murderer into a martyr
Czechoslovak police hunt down StB secrets in the solid new Czech-Slovak-Polish cop thriller The Red Captain
A castaway dog steals the show in this intermittently affecting family drama, a minor hit on the festival circuit
She was the Czech version of Marlene Dietrich, but this campy Third Reich melodrama doesn’t do her justice
The Greatest American Detective comes to Prague in Dinner for Adele, a strange, surreal mystery-comedy from acclaimed director Oldřich Lipský
The spirit of the USA’s Wild West is alive and well in Czech Republic tramping culture, as witnessed by the new film Amerika
Home Care was one of two Czech films in competition at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival, along with the far superior The Snake Brothers
Mallory follows its subject through a number of years; director Helena Třeštíková first began filming Mallory when she gave birth in 2002
The Little Man (Malý Pán) is a live-action puppet movie brought to life through the use of marionettes controlled off-screen by skilled puppeteers
Irena Pavlásková’s new Jan Saudek biopic Fotograf claims to be “loosely based” on events in the famed Czech photographer’s life
The Snake Brothers stars real-life brothers Matěj and Kryštof Hádek as a pair of down-and-out small-town siblings whose relationship is tenuous at best