Movie | United Kingdom | 10/06/1989 | Drama | Knights
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeares play about the English Kings bloody conquest of France.
Movie | United Kingdom | 05/21/2023 | Drama | Knights
In blood-soaked Tudor England, Catherine Parr attempts to navigate English politics when she becomes King Henry VIII’s sixth wife.
Movie | Germany | 06/11/2010 | Drama | Knights
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumors circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
Movie | Czech Republic | 04/14/1986 | Drama | Knights
Movie | Czech Republic | 11/18/1966 | Drama | World War II
Closely Watched Trains is a Czech film that won the Oscar for best foreign film in 1967. Director Jirí Menzel unfolds an antiwar comedy set during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia about the story of young boy named Milos who has a job at a small Czech train station and falls in love with the beautiful Masa.
Movie | Czech Republic | 09/26/1969 | Drama | Satira
This mosaic-like parable is set in undefined space and time, still its crazy world without ideals filled with violence, cynicism and hopelessness clearly resembles the social atmosphere in Czechoslovakia after August 1968. Three strange loners survive only thanks to their \foolishness\ - a life based on play and philosophy of joy. But the tragic ending of their coexistence is an inevitable outcome of reality that only offers two possibilities: insanity or death.
Movie | Czech Republic | 01/01/1962 | Drama | Relationship
Oldrich \Fajolo\ Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.
Movie | Czech Republic | 01/01/1969 | Drama | Communism
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect bourgeois elements
Movie | Czech Republic | 07/04/1969 | Drama | Communism
The title \All My Good Countrymen\ is not without irony as this epic tale of Czech village life from shortly after the end of the Second World War concentrates on the activities of a group of friends who are not beyond reproach in siding with a politically corrupt regime for material advancement. Are these the \good countrymen\ of the title or does it refer to the rest of the village who scorn these petty authority figure with silent contempt?
Movie | Czech Republic | 01/19/1970 | Drama | Cry movie
Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.
Movie | Czech Republic | 01/01/1962 | Drama
A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of a local miller. The miller and his son are the descendants of an old family whose ancestral home burned down a century ago, but was rebuilt from scratch. The miller inherited much of his knowledge about the land, water, and a building's stability from generations of family experience. His reputation for finding water and predicting when a structure might collapse have come to the attention of the Inquisition -surely he must be in league with the Devil.
Movie | Czech Republic | 10/08/1965 | Drama | Holocaust
Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him a take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material.
Movie | Czech Republic | 12/30/1966 | Drama | Surreal
Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.
Movie | Czech Republic | 05/17/1968 | Drama | Family Ties
Ondrej, a young boy who loves bees and bats, is introduced to his new mother, a woman much younger than his father. Her brings her a bowl of flower petals which she starts to throw in the air and then gives out a shriek, as she discovers several bats in the bottom of the bowl. In a rage, Ondrej's father picks the boy up and hurls him against a wall. Then as the boy lays in a stupor the father promises the Holy Virgin to dedicate the boy to her if she will spare his life. The boy lives and Ondrej is raised in a strict monastic order, where he is mentored by a very pious warrior monk, Armin. One day after being chastised for no good reason, he escapes and returns home. Armin heads out to bring him back. With his father dead, Ondrej becomes lord of the castle and becomes engaged to his father's widow. Near the end, Armin shows up and attempts to get Ondrej to come back to the order.
