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1. Anthropoid (2016)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, History
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Brian Caspe, Karel Hermánek Jr.
Votes: 54,164 | Gross: $2.96M
2. The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
R | 120 min | Action, Biography, Thriller
As Germany expands its borders, scorching Europe from end to end, two brave Czechs of the Resistance prepare to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the mastermind behind the hideous "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question".
Director: Cédric Jimenez | Stars: Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell, Jack Reynor
Votes: 18,380
3. Brothers (2023)
135 min | Action, Drama, History
Adaptation of controversial real-life story from the 1950s.
Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Oskar Hes, Jan Nedbal, Adam Ernest, Tatiana Dyková
Votes: 304
4. Operation Daybreak (1975)
PG | 118 min | Drama, History, War
In 1942, Britain sends a group of British-trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett
Votes: 2,387
5. Zelary (2003)
R | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War
A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
Director: Ondrej Trojan | Stars: Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Adamová
Votes: 3,747 | Gross: $0.33M
6. Hitler's Madman (1943)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, History, War
Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman
Votes: 917
7. Operation Silver A (2007 TV Movie)
149 min | Drama, History, War
Director: Jirí Strach | Stars: Klára Issová, Tatiana Dyková, Jirí Dvorák, Ivan Trojan
Votes: 94
8. Milena (1990)
139 min | Biography, Drama
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with ... See full summary »
Director: Véra Belmont | Stars: Valérie Kaprisky, Stacy Keach, Gudrun Landgrebe, Nick Mancuso
Votes: 102
9. Havel (2020)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
'Havel' covers the Czech president's transformation from playwright to politician
Director: Slávek Horák | Stars: Anna Geislerová, Barbora Seidlová, Martin Hofmann, Stanislav Majer
Votes: 509
10. Barefoot (2017)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
A boy and his family leave Prague during World War II and move to a small village called Slavonice. There, he meets distant relatives and adjusts to a new way of life.
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Jan Tríska, Oldrich Kaiser, Tereza Ramba, Ondrej Vetchý
Votes: 897
11. The Assassination (1964)
104 min | Action, Drama, History
The assasination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Rudolf Jelínek, Ladislav Mrkvicka, Ludek Munzar
Votes: 479
12. ...a pozdravuji vlastovky (1972)
90 min | Biography, Drama, War
Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska awaits in her cell in prison in Breslau (after war Polish Wroclaw) her execution. After death sentence it was ninety nine days of grace of ... See full summary »
Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Magda Vásáryová, Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek, Václav Helsus
Votes: 179
13. Zastihla me noc (1986)
135 min | Biography, Drama, War
A Holocaust drama made by a director who was himself, as a Jew, a prisoner in the German concentration camp of Ravensbrueck during the Second World War.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Jana Riháková, Jana Brejchová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Katerina Urbancová
Votes: 73
14. Sokolovo (1975)
129 min | Thriller, War
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Ladislav Chudík, Vladimir Samoylov, Yuriy Solomin, Bohus Pastorek
Votes: 80
15. Men Without Wings (1946)
79 min | Drama, War
The action takes place in occupied Czechoslovak Republic after assassination of Schutzstaffel (SS)-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reichsprotektor of the... See full synopsis »
Director: Frantisek Cáp | Stars: Gustav Nezval, Ladislav H. Struna, Jaroslav Zrotal, Vladimír Hlavatý
Votes: 149
16. Levé krídlo (1984)
81 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Director: Jirí Hanibal | Stars: Filip Renc, Lucie Zednícková, Pavel Kríz, Zbynek Honzík
Votes: 20
17. Klíc (1971)
97 min | Drama, History, War
Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Director: Vladimír Cech | Stars: Frantisek Vicena, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Zdenek Kampf, Vlasta Vlasáková
Votes: 41
18. Klauni a vlastenci (1991 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Hynek Bocan | Stars: Oldrich Vízner, Zdenek Zák, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jana Svandová
Votes: 9
19. Maratón (1968)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
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... See full summary »
Director: Ivo Novák | Stars: Jaromír Hanzlík, Jana Brejchová, Vladimír Mensík, Karel Höger
Votes: 29
20. The Art of Dissent (2021)
105 min | Documentary
"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary's main protagonists - Václav... See full synopsis »
Director: James Le Sueur | Stars: Timothy Garton Ash, Joan Bakewell, Shirley Bassey, Kamila Bendova
Votes: 15
21. Heydrich in Prag (1967 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Based on historical events, the film tells the story of Operation Anthropoid which led to the assassination of the German SS leader Heydrich in Prague by Czech rebels led by Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis.
Director: Rolf Hädrich | Stars: Martin Benrath, Horst Eisele, Günter Strack, Klaus Schwarzkopf
Votes: 11
23. Raport (1968 TV Movie)
64 min | Drama
In the Gestapo prison, the prisoner Evzen is put in a cell as a confederate. First he denounced his fellow prisoner Arnost and now he has to find out from the young arrested resistance ... See full summary »
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Jan Tríska, Jaroslav Moucka, Zaslouzilý Umelec
Votes: 18
24. Opus Pro Smrtihlava (1984)
98 min | Documentary
Descendants and ancestors create a portrait representing the imperial protector Reinhard Heydrich.
Director: Karel Marsálek | Stars: Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler, Emil Hácha, Ludek Munzar
Votes: 8
25. Praha nultá hodina (1963)
78 min | Drama, War
Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.
Director: Milos Makovec | Stars: Josef Bek, Ivan Palec, Jutta Hoffmann, Lubor Tokos
Votes: 13
26. Pérák: Stín nad Prahou (2016)
13 min | Animation, Short, Action
Nazi occupation of Czech Republic during the WW II: The phantom avenger with spring-heeled shoes jumps above the streets of Prague and fights the occupiers. He has to stop the Nazis from ... See full summary »
Director: Marek Berger
Votes: 30
27. That Instant, That While (1981)
100 min | Drama, War
Winter of 1944 and the people of a small Protectorate town are beginning to feel the approaching end of the war. Here, the local hospital is run by a medical authority - chief of surgery Jan Kodet.
Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Frantisek Nemec, Daniela Kolárová, Ludek Munzar, Ladislav Frej
Votes: 28
28. Pravomil (2014)
25 min | Short, Drama
He could not live with the sense of injustice so he decided to get revenge.
Director: Pavel Nosek | Stars: Martin Huba, Jan Horky, Hana Kusnjerová, Tereza Beranová
29. Nocní depese (1989)
Short, Drama, War
Director: Petr Hvizd | Stars: Karel Hlusicka, Frantisek Jákl, Denisa Kubová, Jirí Ornest
30. Herec (1988 TV Movie)
67 min | Drama
On 29 September 1938, the infamous Munich Agreement was negotiated, and it is the story of the dark period of the German occupation of Czechia that takes us to a theatre where two acting ... See full summary »
Director: Alois Müller | Stars: Ludek Munzar, Sona Dvoráková, Vladimír Brabec, Stanislav Tríska
31. Kat nepocká (1972 TV Movie)
Drama, War
Wartime Prague... The last scenes of a cabaret operetta are being filmed at Barrandov film studio when word spreads that the main star, Karla Hlinová, has been arrested by the Gestapo. Fear... See full summary »
Director: Frantisek Filip | Stars: Jirina Bohdalová, Martin Ruzek, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Radovan Lukavský
Votes: 23
33.
Král Sumavy: Fantom temného kraje (2022– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2022)
Drama
Stars: Oskar Hes, Kristyna Ryska, Judit Bárdos, Jan Jankovský
34.
Bohéma (2017)
Episode:
Past na svedomí
(2017)
TV-PG | 76 min | Biography, Drama, History
Anti-German student demonstrations as part of the anniversary of the founding of the republic were bloodily suppressed by the Nazi authorities, and student Jan Opletal and bakery worker ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Sedlácek | Stars: Michal Dlouhý, Vladimír Javorský, Jaroslav Plesl, Sasa Rasilov
Votes: 12
35.
Bohéma (2017)
Episode:
Krev, puda a strach
(2017)
TV-PG | 80 min | Biography, Drama, History
In his secret inauguration speech, Heydrich told his comrades-in-arms how he envisions things going forward with Bohemia. According to him, the Central European area needs to be cleared of ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Sedlácek | Stars: Michal Dlouhý, Vladimír Javorský, Jaroslav Plesl, Sasa Rasilov
Votes: 11