Movies
- 1970
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders6.9671970HD
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...
- 1969
The Joke
The Joke6.61969HD
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he...
- 1966
Pearls of the Deep
Pearls of the Deep61966HD
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...
- 1972
And Give My Love to the Swallows
And Give My Love to the Swallows4.71972HD
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...
- 1964
The Hall of Lost Steps
The Hall of Lost Steps7.61964HD
In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due...
- 2018
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel6.52018HD
An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...
- 1964
The Cry
The Cry6.91964HD
While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends...
- 1974
Il Divino Boemo
Il Divino Boemo01974HD
- 1982
Opera ve vinici
Opera ve vinici01982HD
- 1977
Flying Saucers Over Our Village
Flying Saucers Over Our Village4.51977HD
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.
- 1961
Footprints
Footprints5.81961HD
This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS.
- 1973
Kasař
Kasař01973HD
- 1980
Escape Home
Escape Home61980HD
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.
- 1983
Incomplete Eclipse
Incomplete Eclipse61983HD
Marta (Lucie Patikova) was blinded in an accident brought on by her careless and indulgent younger sister. Now in a school for the blind, Marta keeps...
- 1963
The Dynamite Watcher
The Dynamite Watcher01963HD
- 1985
Extended Time
Extended Time61985HD
- 1995
Učitel tance
Učitel tance6.81995HD
- 1980
Payment in Kind
Payment in Kind5.31980HD
In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...
- 1999
Double Role
Double Role71999HD
An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two...
- 1988
O Háderunovi a víle Elóře
O Háderunovi a víle Elóře01988HD