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
Petr Jákl’s Ghoul was filmed in English with an international cast of actors, and shot in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and California
Despite being sold as a bouncy holiday-season romance, Pohádkář (English title: Storyteller) is anything but
Magický hlas rebelky (The Magic Voice of a Rebel) is a compelling new documentary that follows Kubišová’s humble beginnings to Prague Spring fame
Parádně pokecal (titled Totally Talking in English) is the debut feature from writer-director and FAMU graduate Tomáš Pavlíček
Director Miroslav Krobot combines elements of biting satire with droll comedy in Nowhere in Moravia (Díra u Hanušovic)
Lousy Bastards skirts around the premise of Susanne Bier’s film so openly that you wonder if it is an unofficial remake
The Way Out is like a punch to the gut: gritty, honest, and vividly realized, this is not a social polemic but a captivating look at the Czech Roma minority
Olga is not a definitive biography of the former First Lady, but paints an intimate picture of its subject with a fitting warmth and humanity
Hany follows a diverse group of youths over the course of a single night, was shot in one long, virtuoso single take that comprises the length of the film
Signál, the latest film from director Tomáš Řehořek, starts out with a can’t-miss premise but eventually turns into a muddle
Is Juraj Herz’s The Cremator the best Czech horror film ever made?
Karel Fiala stars as a soft-drinkin’ cowboy in director Oldřich Lipský’s classic 1964 musical western
Jan Hřebejk’s Svatá čtveřice (4Some, retitled from The Holy Quaternity in English) takes a look at two families sleeping around with each other
The Butcher of Prague is an admirable but ultimately underwhelming film version of the Heydrich assassination and Lidice massacre
Vendeta is a refreshingly old-fashioned revenge thriller that features the kind of no-nonsense filmmaking you don’t see any more
Obscurantist and His Lineage is an overwhelming, almost indecipherable deluge of religious, spiritual, and metaphysical gobbledygook
Alois Nebel was the Czech Republic’s official submission to the 2012 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Robert Sedláček’s Long Live the Family is a slow-moving, low-energy, but occasionally affecting family drama-cum-road movie,
The Magical Duvet is cloying, overstuffed, and oppressively cute, but you’d have to be a cynic to hate F.A. Brabec’s candy-colored musical
Leaving (Odcházení) sees former Czech president Václav Havel turn debut director in a surprisingly refined piece of intellectual surrealism
Perfect Halloweentime viewing: Oldřich Lipský’s hilarious horror parody
Katka, a documentary by Helena Třeštíková, gives a name, and more importantly, a face, to one of Prague’s lost and forgotten souls
Menzel followed his Oscar win with Rozmarné léto (Capricious Summer), a lightly comic tale based on the novel by Vladislav Vančura