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 | 07/18/1960 | Drama | World War II
A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans.
Movie | Czech Republic | 07/01/1958 | Drama | Murder
On the state stud-farm, Tomás (Rudolf Jelínek) is preparing to become a jockey together with other boys. He loves to read cowboy stories and Western pulp magazines and his passion makes him...
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 | 11/24/1967 | Drama | Knights
Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. During one of their \jobs\ they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return news of the kidnapping and robbery to the King. Kozlik prepares for the wrath of the King, and sends Mikolás to pressure his neighbor Lazar to join him in war. Persuasion fails, and in vengeance Mikolás abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa, just as she was about to join a convent. The King, meantime, dispatches an army and the religious Lazar will be called upon to join hands against Kozlik. Stripped-down, surreal, and relentlessly grimy account of the shift from Paganism to Christianity.
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 | 09/19/1960 | Drama | World War II
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased \hero of the Reich\ are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
Movie | Czech Republic | 11/11/1966 | Drama | World War II
A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.
Movie | Czech Republic | 09/25/1964 | Drama | Holocaust
Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.