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The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Williams.
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Čenda and Jana don't have it easy in life. They're both unemployed, Čenda is up to his ears in debt, and the most frequent visitor to their home is the debt collector. But that's about to change thanks to a lottery ticket blessed by a priest. A fairy-tale win of 176 million crowns opens the door to a world of unlimited possibilities for the couple. But it also brings a lot of new friends who would like to get a big piece of the prize.
Milan and Týna Svoboda’s marriage has, in recent months, turned into a series of minor and major misunderstandings, with the couple now arguing about almost anything. A holiday therefore seems like the right choice to save their relationship. But what if they each have a different idea of what that should be? Milan has a soft spot for the Czech countryside and is thrilled at the prospect of sleeping under the stars, whilst Týna would much rather be by the sea. She sees the campsite in the Bohemian Paradise more as a compromise. From the moment they arrive, even seemingly ordinary things turn into comical disasters that gradually escalate. Instead of relaxation, the tension between them only intensifies. After an unexpected incident at Trosky Castle, they decide to try something completely different – spending some time apart. Perhaps this way they’ll finally discover what’s really important in life…
Tereza is a former prima ballerina at the National Theater who ended her career as a professional dancer after an injury and moved with her husband Petr and seven-year-old daughter Maruška to an abandoned mill in the Broumov region, which she inherited from her grandmother. With dogged determination and limited financial resources, she is renovating the building to create a new home for her family. She earns extra money by running a physical education club at the local school.
After the premiere, the theatre group gathers in a bar to celebrate. However, the cheerful gathering is interrupted by a drunken Soviet officer. He insists on selling a can of petrol. However, when he senses the awkwardness, the hidden hatred, the cowardice, the timidity of the people there, he begins to enjoy the situation with his intrusiveness. When he takes his pistol out of its holster, things start to get crazy. The people in the bar suddenly become “freedom fighters” against the Russian occupation.
Eight chapters on the disaster that ensues after a simple man signs a blank piece of paper when handed a pen.
Johanka and Matyáš have an unusual home. The two live among the animals and plants of an enchanted botanical garden in the middle of the city, but this idyll is under threat. To the children’s horror, the mayor wants to build a theme park on the same spot. The Blue Tiger, an animal with magic powers, comes to their aid. Only he can protect the garden, but Johanka and Matyáš must now stop the mayor from capturing their newfound friend. MODRY TYGR is a colourful, atmospheric and imaginatively told animated fairytale that inspires the viewer to reflect on natural resources and habitats.
The film chronicles the events of a village on the Czech-Austrian border from the 1930s to 1950s, where genocide occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war.
Andrew is a tough businessman and an arrogant workaholic. He runs a large, successful company in Prague. The meaning of his life is money. Ondřej has just negotiated the deal of a lifetime in Nebraska with a wealthy investor who will finance the construction of luxury residences on the outskirts of Prague. On his way back from America, the plane flies over a reservation where an Indian chief is being buried. The spirit of the Indian rising to the sky crashes into the plane and inadvertently becomes incarnate in Ondrej. And this spirit has decidedly different ideas about Andrew's life and values.
The discovery of decades-old skeletal remains kicks off a criminal investigation into the ancient secrets of the Beskydy Mountains.
The devil's magic quill keeps a tight record of sins. But when this precious artifact is stolen, a demon must find a way to make things right again.
A film based on a book by Jaroslav Kmenta tells the story of a mafioso who got rich by tax fraud of billions of crowns in transactions with petroleum products and who later tried to gain control of the state-owned petroleum concern. The main character is the gangster Radim Kraviec (Hynek Cermák). He was always capable of violence, but when his father is abducted and killed by a competing mafia, he is changed into a murdering monster.
After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague, Czech mobster Radim "Kácko" Kraviec flees first to Seychelles and then to South Africa where he continues with his criminal endeavours. However, his illicit activities cannot go unnoticed forever.
This loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness follows Robert Klein as he sets out to find his brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Three friends meet regularly at a renowned spa, where their band entertains the local guests while they enjoy a guys' getaway together. Everything changes with the sudden revelation that one of them has a secret seven-year-old son.
Vincent, a thoughtful and peaceful young man who loves reading and painting, is the complete opposite of his father. As a retired and ambitious knight, his father feels a strong need to constantly look after his son and shower him with important advice. He even accompanies him on his journey into the world. On their journey, they encounter a sorcerer, endanger the fairy kingdom, and must rectify their mistake. And, of course, they must also rescue the beautiful princess. In the end, the knight understands that not everything can be solved with a sword, and Vincent realizes that evil must be fought. The love of the beautiful princess and half the kingdom is then the natural reward.
Count Frank Kostka, his wife Vivien and their daughter Marie live in their ancestral castle Kostka. They are helped by the housekeeper Mrs. Tichá, the handyman Krása and the Castellan Josef. The original interest of visitors to the castle in the Curse of Comtesse Marie is no longer the same as before, which does not bother Maria at all – at least she has enough time for her Max, a nobleman from the next Castle Hvězda. Frank, however, is at a loss, there is not enough money either for salaries or for the necessary repairs. And just then, Bendy's lawyer's daughter Deniska appears, stirring up the tranquil waters of the ancestral home...
An ambitious young economist moves to the north of Czechia to find work. Here he meets the sons of the best meth cook, Grundza, and eventually Grundza himself, the head of the family and a caring father. The unconventional group combine progressive economic practices with street knowledge to take the family business to a whole new level.
This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana. The two of them tirelessly seek Mr. Right. Having once lived through an intense relationship with a ‘typical’ Czech man, Jana intentionally avoids Czech men. She searches for her dream foreigner while long-sufferingly warding off the tragicomic advances of her good-natured neighbor Žemla. After several unsuccessful attempts, Laura falls in love with Oliver, a forty year old who works as an ad agency idea man. Little does she suspect that twenty years ago Oliver was Jana’s true love…
The eternal outsider Aleš Hrdlička always wanted to be an actor. However, his childhood dream did not come true, so he trained as a chef. Fate, however, wanted him to end up as an assistant in his friend's psychological counseling center. There he meets Richard Mayer, the owner of the Profumo del Mondo restaurant, who asks him for help in establishing a relationship with a beautiful sommelier with whom he has fallen head over heels in love. During his not-so-successful attempts to win Nikoletina's favor, Aleš falls for Richard's daughter Lucie. However, when he tries to get her phone number, he accidentally gets the contact information for a waitress named Stáza. While Aleš thinks he is texting Lucie during the night, it is actually Stáza who is responding to his messages.
The ambulance doctor František moves away from his wife Bohuna to his new love Helena. She has been married for several years to the successful writer Karl. However, thanks to her husband's philandering, she was by no means happy in it. It seems that František and Helena are finally waiting for peaceful days and now, on the threshold of fifty, they will finally be able to experience their satisfied love. However, their enthusiasm is not shared by their past partners.
This impressionistic film captures the uniqueness of life and creativity. An experimental feature comprising 40 distinct acting roles, each captured on its own 16 mm film roll, offering a kaleidoscopic mosaic of human traits that fluidly crosses comedy, drama, and documentary styles. Rather than following a conventional narrative, it presents standalone character portraits that collectively inspire creative artists to define and communicate their vision clearly.
A family of four sets off for a summer vacation by the sea in the camper van. Even though the Adriatic is within reach, the journey might just take longer than expected.
A devoted gardener and his wife live peacefully at the foot of a hill, tending their nursery according to nature’s rhythms. When a new castle owner seeks to transform the entire estate and demands they sell their garden business, the couple refuses. In response, the owner erects barbed-wire fences and places a guard at the entrance road…
Explosive conversational comedy based on the successful theater plays, which takes place one evening in a remote local pub, during the match of Ice Hockey World Championship. What can happen and can be told, when the kidnapped bride is getting drunk together with the best woman of her husband and experienced barmaid and the only one, who is able to stop and save everything, is not coming.
LITTLE SECRET is a short, suspenseful drama about a fifteen year old boy and his inner struggles. A son tells his mother an innocent lie as an excuse. We've all covered things up, but what happens when the consequences begin to snowball, and every minute it becomes harder and harder to take back the lie. Little Secret is inspired by a true story that happened in April 2012 in the Czech Republic and became a national scandal and media sensation for weeks. It started a huge racist backlash in the country.
The budget for the program to colonize Mars was so drastically cut back that settlements never appeared on the faraway planet. Now the only reminder of the ambitious plan is an abandoned base inhabited by a very lonely robot. The silence and tranquility of the red planet is eventually disturbed, however, by a privately-funded Czech crew, whose members have taken on the mission for very different reasons...
The film's main theme is obsession. An obsession with love, with art, originality, copying, with success, money and... with oneself. Sooner or later, if we lose our rational upper hand over it and let ourselves be dragged down by it, every obsession leads to destruction. But it is only when being dragged down, in spite of all the cuts and bruises, that we find a unique DELIGHT, if only for a few short moments - and what else is life really about? It is like a drug. What at first seems to be weak and trivial is capable of expanding and growing into a serious problem that can appear to be absolutely incomprehensible and absurd to those who have never experienced anything like it.
"A documentary anatomy of mass murder for one monitor and 34 talking heads." These are the words the filmmakers use in the credits to describe their project, which thematises the execution of more than 260 Carpathian Germans, Hungarians and Slovaks by Czechoslovak army soldiers near Přerov in June 1945. The “massacre at Přerov” is made present through a minimalist dramatisation of the interrogation footage of direct participants, eyewitnesses, and others. It is as if the characters of ancient theatre were entering the Zoom “stage” and delivering a tragic message of fear, hatred and disinterest across the chasm of time.
ANNA ALEXANDROVNA BARKOVA (1901-1976) Journalist and poet, meeting suspicious characters. Involved in immoral love affairs. Work in the Kremlin, fired. 1934 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in Karaganda. Lived in Ukraine during the WWII. 1946 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in the Komi Republic. 1956 - Rehabilitated, disability pension. 1957 - Arrested, 10 years of penal servitude. The film 8 Heads of Madness is about the eternal struggle between the artist and external circumstances, the artist and her demons and longings. 8 Heads of Madness is a drama woven from fragments of an appalling era. An unhappy cross-section of the 20th century in an unhappy country, as seen through the sensitive, perceptive vision of a poet.
A kidnapped bride. A distraught hero. Odysseys through surreal worlds. Menandros and Thaïs are freshly married, but the wedding day ends bloodily. Thaïs is abducted by pirates. Searching for her, the bridegroom becomes a bloodthirsty monster, his horse grows wings, a witch promises him to another woman, King Xerxes unmans him, but everything comes to an happy end. Or does it?
Pérák is an action-packed historical fiction that combines elements of martial arts and stunts with typical verbal humor. But it is also a playful interpretation of the dramatic events of the Protectorate period: the feverish activity of a fictional resistance group – the Czechoslovak League of Exceptionals – is almost swept away by the unexpected strike of the incoming Reich Protector Heydrich, who arrives in Prague to restore order. Will the mythical Czech superhero Pérák save the day, using the springs on his feet to leap over Prague's fences, trams, and houses and harm the fascist occupiers? And does he even exist? Pérák introduces real figures from our history in incredible contexts.
Šimon (46) has been suffering from insomnia for several years. Behind the illusion of a secure and happy life, he has a monotonous job he doesn't like, his wife looks down on him, his son doesn’t take him seriously, and Šimon has long since lost any hope for change. But then he discovers a 16-year-old YouTuber on his son’s computer whose ASMR videos finally help him to sleep. But he soon realises that the girl means much more to him than he had thought. The illusion begins to crumble.
