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- Anna is a controversial influencer and best known for her provocative online content, but suddenly she goes silent and stops posting any updates. When Nina finds a halfnaked photo of Anna on her dad's phone, she decides to track down Anna.
- A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums start to "terorize" their families because they were set up to ensure the mums exercise, the kids study etc. Apart from that they start causing problems to the other family ... cut ropes with hanging clothes, pierced tires, etc. Once they get to killing each other family's pets the parents get really worried about the safety of their kids. The grannys later destroy each other while fighting and the families decide that they'll be better off without any robots. (It's some time since I saw this so the details may be off.) Mainly thanks to the design of the robots it's rather a comedy than a horror. Unless you are ten. And a rather good comedy!
- Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation.
- "Sex, drugs and rock and roll", not in the West but in a Communist police state - Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia of the 1970s . Anti-hero Olin, 21, has just left a mental hospital, after having slashed his wrists to dodge military service. His prominence in the underground scene of youthful revolt makes him an increasing target for the forces of order. Eventually he is on the run, determined to cross the frontier to the "West" he dreams of.
- 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 life that were granted to prisoners by the Nazis, a period during which the prisoners were put to work. Maruska paints the eyes of the plaster tin soldiers by a thin brush and thus she takes the opportunity to put down secretly the fragments of her memories, thoughts and expectations. She hopes she will manage to smuggle these "scraps", as she calls them, to her close friends and family. In retrospect there are returning the girl's experiences.
- Osvald, stripped of honor of being leader of children's party, prepares a terrible revenge.
- A Jewish doctor in Nazi-occupied Prague risks his life by assisting a gravely injured member of the resistance.
- The hero of the new film comedy Marek is a typical example of a young Mimone, living in his own universe. It's smart and kind astrophysics student, whose greatest love is not only stars, but also horoscopes. His career, however, he one day crosses the dream girl and Marek falls hopelessly so that the school can not even do the test. At this moment things are worn to his friends committed. They decide to call for help and dedication to Mark's problems his father, who is a successful publisher of a series of bestsellers on the topic: how to get a woman. Together, they begin to prepare Marek great strategy game, thanks to which he would be able to find your way to the beloved girl. It had, however, setting the stage for many a big bummer. Marek under the guidance of his father and friends undertake a very peculiar psychology course girls. This applies, however, in the lives of the 10 rules exactly as guaranteed by the books?
- On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away his bad luck with his friend Jirka Broz. The old accountant auditor Zelinka drops a wallet. Karel picks it up and before he gives it back he notices the winning lottery-ticket in it. Both young men accompany the old drunk man. Karel steals the ticket and exchanges it with his own. Next day, Zelinka is found dead. Investigators, Captain Tuma and the Lieutenant Líbal, soon discover that this is a murder case covered up as an accident.
- Unique view behind the curtain of development and production of The Painted Bird, a film adaptation of Jerzy Kosiskis novel, which has travelled festivals all over the world. 11 Colours of The Bird is neither cruel, nor black and white or taciturn. Stories of director Vclav Marhoul and (non)actor Petr Kotlr, bring back the film's various creative peripetia, offering their subjective perspectives, from the first to the last scene of a year-and-half long shoot. Sometimes funny, sometimes hard. The documentary also offers testimonies of the world cinema starts acting in the film. Thanks to a truly open narrative, divided into 11 chapters, the viewer becomes one of the film crews members.
- Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknamed The Cat. He rightly suspects that Cat will go and pick up his last loot which the police didn't manage to find and that he will want revenge on Karta who helped get him behind bars. At the hospital, Cat's ex-lover Fróny hopelessly falls for doctor Chrudimský and decides to start a new life. She still refuses to help the inspector in his search for The Cat and Karta.
- A low-budget Czech road movie. A computer hacker (Martin Trnavský) has 24 hours to repay some money he's stolen via Internet, and he is reluctant to do so. But there is also a girl involved (Barbora Seidlová), so deeply ashamed of her past as a peepshow stripper that she is determined to end her life. The film focuses on the pair's strengthening relationship as they head down a 'road to nowhere'.
- The four-hour film was made improvised by the method of "dried humor", i.e. an attempt to destroy each newly emerging gag by diluting it.
- Once again, we will follow the adventures of two friends, Honza and Jirka. One of them embarks on the ultimate art of straw wine. Not only does he fail, but after the unexpected arrival of his buddy Jirka, his life is turned upside down.
- A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he writes lyrics for many of the underground rock band hits by 'The Plastic People of the Universa', a group heavily influenced by Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground.
- Thirty female students in a second-year grammar school are resisting the efforts of old professor Machacek to teach them Pythagoras' theorem. But then, via a collective classroom vision, the young, good-looking teacher Ludolf appears and decides to put the complicated maths equation to music.
- The film treatise has the structure of a city, following the direction from the periphery to the centre, which is perceived as the centre of power, hegemony and normativity. Each part of the city/film introduces a representative of Czech art or Czech thinking.
- Honza and Klára became owners of a winery and parents. Alongside their marriage, they deal with theft in the vineyards. In addition, the vintage season is coming. And finally, after many years, Honza reunites with his friend Jirka.
- Two middle-aged couples are linked by more than just a lifelong friendship. While relaxing on a Caribbean island, they get an unconventional idea to enrich and, as a result, complicate their sexual lives.
- Obey and you will be happy. You must, however, adapt to the System - to its laws, rules and customs - whether you like it or not. You will cease to be a free person. Your freedom will be exchanged for subordination and the rewards it brings. This documentary film is about a high-risk, experimental game that shows how quickly one can succumb to a totalitarian system. Fifty people signed up as volunteers for the game, not knowing they would have to come to terms with a totalitarian system. Fascist, communist and national-corporate totalitarian systems are all represented here.
- A documentary film about the Kosice swimming pool where history came to bathe. Seen through several stories which unfolded between the years 1936 and 2002, the film captures 66 seasons at the popular swimming pool, and the same number of years in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.
- Story of the talented Russian poet, Anna Barkova (1906-1976), who spent twenty-two years of her life in the Gulags. She survived thanks to her poems, thanks to hope and her passionate love for a woman named Valentina.
- A creative documentary film portrait of Olda Riha, front-man of a famous Czech rock band Katapult celebrating 35 years of its existence.
- Dogs, sheep, goats, humans and many other animals go about their daily affairs on a farm in the Czech countryside. Tenderly capturing their reciprocal dynamics, a Few mornings, an Evening invites us to observe and reflect on our relationship with animals in human agriculture.
- Gymnastics professor Vasek Zamberk (Pavel Landovský) would like to get closer to Miss Lenka Stríbrná (Marie Drahokoupilová). He invites her to races and introduces her to his friend Karel, editor in a big publishing house. Karel (Jan Kacer), an experienced seducer, seizes the opportunity. But it seems that the girl is far more interested in Karel's superior, editor-in-chief Procházka (Ilja Prachar). Karel, who is capable of brilliantly navigating his way through all the difficulties of the Communist regime, does not give up. He endeavors to win Lenka over, the more so since he has really fallen in love with her.
- 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.
- Marvin, a creative writer, and Ivan, a psychiatrist, relocate to Sweden from the Czech Republic to raise their young family during Marvin's gender transition.
- One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
- The little town of Petrovice has been terrorized by a serial killer who is murdering the students of the local high school. Who is the killer?
- Tána Cepeláková lives happily six years in a girls boarding school among cheerful friends. The young friend of her father's, Rudolf Kolínský, wants to marry her but Tána stubbornly rejects him. She does not want to return home because she is convinced that her father's second wife is a pernicious step-mother. Curiosity, however, gets the better of her and Tána decides to enter her parent's service under an assumed name. She takes up employment as the attendant to her step-mother.
- Amateur home film is the source of the films created in the cycle Private Century. The material, which at the time it was made was important to a certain group of people, today presents historical testimony that is exclusive (unofficial) for its details and tone it. After decades as celluloid memories, a family portrait takes on the form of a universally communicable story. A Low-Level Flight tells the story of Tána and Václav from the end of the 1950s to the start of the normalization period. Václav was a fighter pilot in the Czechoslovak army. His wife played the role of an officer's wife, and after a time she and the family followed him to the Soviet Union. Infidelity and alcoholism gradually result in the marriage's break-up. In addition to describing the living conditions in a Soviet military housing estate, the film also presents the extraordinary footage that Václav filmed during test flights, which at the time he could probably have been imprisoned for filming. Sikl's visual archaeology is a unique meditation on the human condition. The director examines the existence of man as spread out across time and space through amateur home film footage. For the director these represent an important counterpart to the images of the past preserved in professional film productions. In a monologue Sikl emphasizes the fatefulness of the actions of the individual figures in the film. For the director the interpretation of history is the surface against which he arranges the film shadows of his film heroes.
- In 35 years of one couple's shared life, a lot of things happen: from the moments of an absolute harmony to the dramatic falls. For the most of the time, the couple cares for common daily life issues and joys that come together with raising the children, running the household or running a business. And this is exactly the life of furniture shop owners Ivana and Vaclav Strnadovi, 2 characters that a director Helena Trestíková follows with her camera as of the year 1980 within a project The Marriage Story. Her new feature documentary about Strnad family is linked to TV films from this cycle, but most importantly it shows further shocking twists, that life brought to the couple and their children.
- The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jirí Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
- Three friends meet off the South African coast to face the most dangerous shark - The Great White. Each of them has already met him, each differently. It's a usual meeting for diver Andre Hartman, perhaps nobody knows more about the great white than him. Marine biologist Ryan Johnson considers the secret of this shark a challenge and the youngest, Mark Jucker, still remembers hair curling moments when a great white shark attacked him while surfing. Thanks to Andre's experience, Ryan and Mark may reach the dreaded predator. Everybody agrees that the Great White will remain a major figure - a real master of the seas.
- In this documentary, a worker retrains as a computer programmer after his coal mine closes.But after 25 years as a physical laborer, can he fit in with the young and trendy digital crowd?
- On New Years Day, two innocent 12-year-old boys in a small town buys vodka for a young female teacher, Katerina's (Natálie Rehorová) and two other men (David (Martin Pechlát), her boyfriend, and his friend Stepanand (Jirí Cerný). They are invited to the house. Here they experience their first encounter with sexuality. The children lose track of time. They were expected home long ago. They drink, throw up and are intoxicated by love and "the shameless, unbridled and licentious" world in which David, Katerina and Stepán live.
- Thirty-year-old Hana (Ivana Chylková) enters a life crisis. She discovers her husband Igor's (Jiri Bartoska) infidelity and her life, subordinated to her husband, is suddenly questioned.
- A period in the life of diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, who was the son of Czechoslovakia's founder, served as the Central-European country's minister of foreign affairs and has been brutally killed by Russian secret service in 1948.
- A small group of bourgeois guests head for a birthday party of a prominent figure. As they go through the woods and have a picnic, they are suddenly surrounded by a bunch of suspicious strangers.
- Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now he has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by the fact that he betrayed his first love Emca and his beloved river Sázava where he spent his childhood and youth. A visit from an old friend Lebeda brings it all back to him. After a nervous breakdown Leopold secretly visits his home instead of going to the spa. As a tramp wandering from place to place he supports himself by casual labor. Mrs Koháková sends someone to look for the missing husband. Living an active life brings the lost spark back into Leopold's life. He shaves, changes his clothes and becomes astonishingly young-looking.
- Stories from the three-year journey of the world-famous Sinbad.
- People living on an island finds a treasure, but it does not only do them good.
- Lada is a little boy who likes to read fiction and has a great imagination. He figures out that his sister Eva's boyfriend is a vampire, and so he and his brother put him through various tests that, in effect, cause Eva and her boyfriend to break up for real. That Lada must eventually make things right again is clear in this comedic romp.
- The young couple Uli and Vanilla want to split up, but lust and money get in their way.
- The famous singer Manon Cavalliniová comes to Prague after fifteen years. Many years ago she was forced by her husband, the industrialist Rón, to choose between a career and life with him and their young daughter Vera. Now Manon invites her husband to the premiere.