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1. Kolya (1996)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Andrey Khalimon, Libuse Safránková, Ondrej Vetchý
Votes: 16,247 | Gross: $5.73M
2. When the Cat Comes (1963)
104 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
People arrive in a small village with a strange cat wearing glasses. When someone takes them off, he can color people, according to their nature and mood. Adults consider him dangerous; children love him.
Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Jan Werich, Emília Vásáryová, Vlastimil Brodský, Jirí Sovák
Votes: 2,076
3. Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
93 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Jan is a decent, boring man, living a decent, boring life as a rocket designer. When his adventurous twin brother dies in a breakfast accident, Jan decides to impersonate him, unwittingly becoming a part of a Nazi time travel conspiracy.
Director: Jindrich Polák | Stars: Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Vlastimil Brodský
Votes: 1,474
4. Létající Cestmír (1983– )
258 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
One morning on his way to school, Cestmír Trnka tripped over the Blue Stone and suddenly found himself on the Planet of Flowers. He experienced incredible things there and brought back ... See full summary »
Stars: Lukás Bech, Zaneta Fuchsová, Antonín Kala, Jan Kreidl
Votes: 417
5. Arabela (1980–1981)
30 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Princess Arabela, the daughter of the King of the fairy tale world escapes before the revenge of a cunning and deceitful magician Rumburak and leaves the world of fairy tales. She meets ... See full summary »
Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Stella Zázvorková, Jana Nagyová, Veronika Tyblová
Votes: 1,491
6. How About a Plate of Spinach? (1977)
86 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Two swindlers get to prison for alcohol theft. After an exit from prison they are employed for theft of the device for regeneration of old cows. The owner of salon wants to use devices for rejuvenation. But something went not so.
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Jirí Sovák, Iva Janzurová, Michal Kocourek
Votes: 778
7. 90 Degrees in the Shade (1965)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A respected grocery shop employee in Prague is covering up for her manager's misconduct with whom she is having an affair; however, things will get complicated when a thorough auditor pays a visit.
Director: Jirí Weiss | Stars: Anne Heywood, James Booth, Rudolf Hrusínský, Ann Todd
Votes: 350
8. You Are a Widow, Sir! (1971)
97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Olga Schoberová, Eduard Cupák, Jirí Sovák
Votes: 860
9. Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
85 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Dana Vávrová, Jirí Procházka, Jirí Sovák, Vlastimil Brodský
Votes: 730
10. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
"What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?" a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Dana Medrická, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová, Juraj Visny
Votes: 1,160
11. Bakalári (1972– )
Comedy
Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Stella Zázvorková, Ludmila Roubíková, Josef Bláha
Votes: 34
12. I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Jana Brejchová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janzurová
Votes: 575
13. My vsichni skolou povinní (1984– )
50 min | Drama, Family
Stars: Miroslav Vladyka, Veronika Zilková, Jirí Bartoska, Jana Sulcová
Votes: 104
14. Arabela se vrací (1993–1994)
30 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The series is the continuation of the series Die Märchenbraut.
Stars: Vladimír Dlouhý, Alena Karesová, Jirí Lábus, Ondrej Kepka
Votes: 414
15. Pan Tau (1970–1978)
30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The children's series reintroduces on the screen Mister Tau the charmer, along with his double, Uncle Alfons. It is impossible to tell them apart, and the cases of their mistaken identity ... See full summary »
Stars: Otto Simánek, Frantisek Filipovský, Jirina Bohdalová, Vladimír Mensík
Votes: 600
16. The End of Agent W4C (1967)
87 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C (Jan Kacer) has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Jan Kacer, Kveta Fialová, Jirí Sovák, Jan Libícek
Votes: 367
17. What I Have I Hold, Gentlemen...! (1980)
84 min | Comedy
In a prefabricated house at the housing estate there live the Nováks and the Bartáceks. The members of both families lack spiritual values altogether. The highest life aim is to gain as ... See full summary »
Directors: Petr Schulhoff, Otakar Fuka | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Iva Janzurová, Stella Zázvorková, Ludek Sobota
Votes: 211
18. Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
91 min | Comedy
Older group of workers are forced to attend the high school and finish it.
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Václav Lohniský, Iva Janzurová, Míla Myslíková
Votes: 2,301
19. Chalupári (1975– )
Comedy
Show about live in a village in Czech republic in the 70's.
Stars: Jirí Sovák, Josef Kemr, Jirina Bohdalová, Josef Vetrovec
Votes: 276
20. Jak se budí princezny (1978)
83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The king Dalimil and the queen Eliska waited to see a longed-for offspring - a daughter Ruzenka. But Eliska's envious and bad sister Melánie curses her. When Ruzenka becomes 17 years old ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Milena Dvorská, Frantisek Filipovský
Votes: 670
21. CBS Children's Film Festival (1967–1978)
Family
Kukla, Fran and Ollie hosted this film program. They would introduce children's films from around the world. In between, the three would act in short skits.
Stars: Perry Benson, Anoop Singh, Brett Way, Raymond Boal
Votes: 86
22. Svetáci (1969)
98 min | Comedy
Skopec, Prouza and Petrtýl are three country plasterers who are working on the renovation of houses in Prague. They are tempted by the Prague night life, but their first visit to the luxury... See full summary »
Director: Zdenek Podskalský | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Vlastimil Brodský, Jan Libícek, Jirina Bohdalová
Votes: 670
23. Na kolejích ceká vrah (1970)
91 min | Crime, Thriller
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway ... See full summary »
Director: Josef Mach | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jaromír Hanzlík, Kveta Fialová
Votes: 131
24. Vernymi ostanemsya (1989)
192 min | Drama, War
Director: Andrey Malyukov | Stars: Igor Volkov, Elena Yakovleva, Vania Tzvetkova, Zoltán Bezerédi
Votes: 19
25. Darzhbuján a Pandrhola (1960)
80 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Cuba Drobbyan (Jiri Sovak) is a poor cavalier who has a good wife (Bela Jurdova) and eleven children. When it comes to the twelfth, Cuba decides to go into the world and get a good ... See full synopsis »
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Rudolf Hrusínský, Václav Lohniský, Josef Hlinomaz
Votes: 424
26. Zabí král (1991)
90 min | Fantasy
When a moody royal Prince's party of court brats pulls a few pranks too many in the woods, a mean fairy lays a cruel spell. She turns one into a frog, who can only become human again by a ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Iris Berben, Michael Degen, Linda Rybová, Michal Dlouhý
Votes: 140
27. Return to Paradise Lost (1999)
116 min | Drama
Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Vladimír Pucholt, Ingrid Timková, Adam Davidson, Jakub Laurych
Votes: 126
28. Piesen o sivom holubovi (1961)
98 min | Drama, War
During the WW2 a group of Slovak children goes a trip on the mountains with their teacher.
Director: Stanislav Barabas | Stars: Karol Machata, Jirí Sovák, Radoslav Bartoník, Michal Belák
Votes: 98
29. Území bílých králu (1991– )
51 min | Family, Action
Stars: Lukás Jencík, Zuzana Vejvodová, Petr Cech, Robert Jezek
Votes: 28
30. Tanková brigáda (1955)
93 min | War
The film is depicting Czechoslovak tank brigade fighting along with the Red Army in the WW II. During the War Czechoslovak armored brigade was formed and trained in the Soviet Union. ... See full summary »
Director: Ivo Toman | Stars: Otomar Krejca, Anonymous, Bedrich Prokos, Zdenek Díte
Votes: 63
31. Nikdo nic nevi (1947)
76 min | Comedy, War
Only 2 years after the end of WWII, a comedy,with much ingenious clowning,on Nazism in which two Prague street car conductors need to quietly remove a drunken German soldier from the occupied city.
Director: Josef Mach | Stars: Jaroslav Marvan, Frantisek Filipovský, Eduard Linkers, Jana Dítetová
Votes: 104
32. Krecek v nocní kosili (1988–1989)
Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Who knows how it happened that Kája Berka forgot to take his pajamas with him to visit his grandfather and grandmother in Rosebach. His great-grandmother willingly lent him her ... See full summary »
Stars: Ondrej Regazzo, Jirí Racek, Július Satinský, Marek Brodský
Votes: 164
33. Sest medvedu s Cibulkou (1972)
83 min | Comedy, Family
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jirí Sovák, Milos Kopecký, Jan Libícek
Votes: 350
34. F.L. Vek (1971– )
693 min | Drama
Stars: Antonie Hegerlíková, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jana Brejchová, Dana Medrická
Votes: 120
35. Cirkus v cirkuse (1975)
131 min | Comedy, Family
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Evgeniy Leonov, Natalya Varley, Aleksandr Lenkov, Leonid Kuravlyov
Votes: 106
36. Hrísní lidé mesta prazského (1968– )
Crime, Drama
Appearing on the scene in the series of thirteen detective stories is the Prague underworld of the 1920s and 1930s. The trio of police inspectors hunting for criminals from petty thieves to... See full summary »
Stars: Jaroslav Marvan, Josef Bláha, Josef Vinklár, Frantisek Filipovský
Votes: 176
37. Cintamani & podvodník (1965)
111 min | Comedy, Crime
In 'Chintamani and birds', we witness the collector's obsession of M.D. Vitásek, who discovers a unique Persian carpet in a junk shop. The journey to acquire it is more than a little ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Jarmila Kronbauerová, Josef Hlinomaz, Ludmila Roubíková
Votes: 69
38. The Man from London (1974)
91 min | Comedy, Crime
A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar ... See full summary »
Director: Hynek Bocan | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Kveta Fialová, Lubomír Lipský, Václav Babka
Votes: 28
39. Mature Wine (1981)
Comedy
Once again we meet Michal Janák, the chairman of farm Rozvoj and a winemaker in body and soul, who this time has to deal with more problems than just his gallbladder. He is worried about ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Bozidara Turzonovová, Iva Janzurová, Jirí Sovák
Votes: 56
40. Probuzení (1960)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Jitka, an untrained 16-year-old hairdresser, runs away from the youth home and returns to a group of hooligans led by a young man named Vilda. They all hang out in Prague's arcades and make... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Jana Brejchová, Jan Smíd, Vladimír Brabec, Marie Brozová
Votes: 62
41. When the Woman Butts In (1960)
80 min | Comedy
The study of Dr Frantisek Prucha, who bears the nickname Faust, is located in Faust's House, now converted into a hospital. Dr Prucha is worn out from overwork, thus he does not even notice... See full summary »
Director: Zdenek Podskalský | Stars: Miroslav Hornícek, Jana Hlavácová, Vlastimil Brodský, Jirí Sovák
Votes: 117
42. Stipku soli (1977– )
80 min | Comedy
Stars: Emília Vásáryová, Josef Abrhám, Jirí Krampol, Viera Strnisková
Votes: 12
43. Sign of the Cancer (1967)
87 min | Crime, Drama
In a rather bizarre environment of a hospital, a criminal plot takes place - a murder occurs there. One of the doctors discovers the real reason for the crime and the perpetrator. However, ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Zora Bozinová, Zdenek Stepánek, Ilja Prachar, Lubomír Cerník
Votes: 73
44. Obcan Brych (1959)
107 min | Drama
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Karel Höger, Vlasta Fialová, Otomar Krejca, Zdenek Stepánek
Votes: 24
45. V tomhle zámku strasí, séfe! (1989 TV Movie)
Comedy
Director: Hynek Bocan | Stars: Petr Nározný, Karel Hermánek, Nada Konvalinková, Jirina Bohdalová
Votes: 21
46. Sherlock Holmes v pánském klubu aneb Komisar Dreyfus zasahuje (1992 TV Short)
40 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Oleg Reif | Stars: Herbert Lom, Svatopluk Benes, Vladimír Dvorák, Petr Hapka
47. Druhý dech (1988– )
Drama
Stars: Josef Abrhám, Petr Pelzer, Vladimír Kratina, Nada Konvalinková
Votes: 20
48. Muz, zena, Zorzík a klíc (1965 TV Movie)
Comedy
Comedy skit variations on the topic of married life. The first situation represents a domestic quarrel of a married couple, where a friend Zorzík is visiting. The spouses call each other by... See full summary »
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Jirina Bohdalová, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Jan Libícek
49. Hodina modrych slonu (1971)
69 min | Family, Fantasy
Two days before Christmas. Zuzanka and Tomás, friends from a kindergarten wander off during a walk. They admire toys and decoration in shop-windows. Zuzanka shall receive a sledge as a ... See full summary »
Director: Radim Cvrcek | Stars: Barbora Pirnerová, Tomás Muchka, Karel Stedrý, Josef Hlinomaz
Votes: 16
50. Hry lásky sálivé (1971)
112 min | Comedy, History
In "The Arabian Horse", the respectable bourgeois Francesco Vergellesi is so firmly convinced of his wife's virtue that he does not hesitate to bet her against the rare stallion he has his ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Bozidara Turzonovová, Jozef Adamovic, Jirí Sovák
Votes: 48