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1. The Ear (1970)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
After coming home from a Party gathering one night, a Czech official becomes convinced that he is about to be the subject of a political purge and tries to do damage control, while also dealing with his turbulent marriage.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Gustav Opocenský, Miroslav Holub
Votes: 3,308
2. The Elementary School (1991)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Jan Tríska, Zdenek Sverák, Libuse Safránková, Rudolf Hrusínský
Votes: 3,231
3. The Little Mermaid (1976)
84 min | Family, Drama, Romance
The little mermaid, one of the daughters of the sea king, seeing the prince on the deck of a luxurious ship, falls in love with him. But during a storm, the ship crashes against a rock. The little mermaid saves her lover from death.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Miroslava Safránková, Radovan Lukavský, Petr Svojtka, Libuse Safránková
Votes: 869
4. Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Karel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Vladimír Mensík, Lukás Vaculík, Michal Dlouhý
Votes: 254
5. The Last Butterfly (1991)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, War
Stage mime Antoine Moreau (Sir Tom Courtenay) is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Ingrid Held, Freddie Jones
Votes: 307
6. The Golden Eels (1979 TV Movie)
84 min | Drama
A little boy, nicknamed Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. There, the boy became friends with a local fisherman and learned to catch ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Miroslava Hozová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Martin Mikulas
Votes: 232
7. Carriage to Vienna (1966)
78 min | Drama, War
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.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Jaromír Hanzlík, Ludek Munzar, Vladimír Ptácek
Votes: 1,142
8. Duhová kulicka (1985 TV Movie)
78 min | Family
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Lubor Tokos, Filip Novotny, Adolf Kohut, Miroslava Hozová
Votes: 58
9. Robinsonka (1974)
77 min | Drama, Family
Blazenka likes to imagine she is on a desolate island and has to find a way how to survive. After the death of her mother she stays together with her baby brother and has to take care of ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Miroslava Safránková, Petr Kostka, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Vladimír Dlouhý
Votes: 66
10. 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
11. Oznamuje se láskám vasim (1989)
93 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1944, in Dresden, a young Czech sailor plans to steal a shipment of tobacco and sell it by himself. Things complicate when he and a beautiful daughter of a German officer fall in love just before the allied bombing of the city.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Lukás Vaculík, Markéta Hrubesová, Antonín Procházka, Zdenek Martínek
Votes: 148
12. Setkání v cervenci (1978)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A high school student named Jakub falls in love with his English teacher Klára, who is a divorced mother of a five-year-old son and who is also Jakub's friend. The film explores the themes of love, friendship, revenge, and maturity.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Daniela Kolárová, Oldrich Kaiser, Tomás Holý, Svatopluk Matyás
Votes: 149
13. Láska (1973)
88 min | Romance
Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Oldrich Kaiser, Milena Dvorská, Frantisek Velecký
Votes: 69
14. Blázni a devcátka (1988)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
13-year-old Jirka, who lives alone with his father, sets up a special friendship with the town's fool, a mighty man with a child's mentality.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Radim Spacek, Milan Simácek, Pavel Nový, Josef Somr
Votes: 66
15. The Cow (1994)
86 min | Drama
Adam is a young farmer. As a child, fleeing the bleak reality of his mother's life as a prostitute, he tumbled from a mountain and was mentally injured. Years later, his mother is dying, so... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Radek Holub, Alena Mihulová, Valérie Zawadská, Antonín Molcík
Votes: 289
16. Smrt krásných srncu (1987)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War II, Leo Popper, a travel agent traveling across the country to sell vacuum cleaners, loses his job, for the sole fault of being Jewish. When his two sons are sent to the ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Karel Hermánek, Rudolf Hrusínský, Jirí Krampol, Lubor Tokos
Votes: 599
17. Prace (1962)
84 min | Family, War
A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and ends up working for the army against the Germans.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Michal Koblic, Marienka Magdolenova, Vladimír Hlavatý, Gustáv Valach
Votes: 118
18. Cekání na dést (1978)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Twelve-year-old Alena (Dita Kaplanová) has had to leave the countryside on a blazing hot summer day and come back home to a block of flats on the outskirts of Prague. She spends most of the... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jirí Bartoska, Michal Hofbauer, Monika Hálová, Dita Kaplanová
Votes: 109
19. At' zije Republika (1965)
134 min | Drama, War
It is the spring 1945 and the front line is getting closer to the small Moravian village of Nesovice. Twelve-year old Oldrich Vareka, nicknamed Shorty for his tiny stature, observes the ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Frank Argus, Josef Barta, P. Bohdanecky, Eduard Bredun
Votes: 307
20. Dobré svetlo (1986)
90 min | Drama
Viktor, an artist, seeks a new direction in his life. Then he meets a young gypsy woman by chance who awakens in him a desire for freedom and independence.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Karel Hermánek, Ivana Chýlková, Jana Sulcová, Anna Tomsová
Votes: 64
21. Jumping Over Puddles (1971)
91 min | Drama, Family
A boy keeps his spiritedness and optimism in spite of polio.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Vladimír Dlouhý, Zdena Hadrbolcová, Karel Hlusicka, Vladimír Smeral
Votes: 254
22. Kam, pánové, kam jdete? (1988)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Karel Hermánek, Sona Valentová, Miroslava Plestilová, Zuzana Geislerová
Votes: 69
23. The High Wall (1964)
71 min | Drama, Romance
After school, thirteen-year old Jitka likes to wander alone through Prague. The brisk girl also likes to sneak around the backyards surrounding the block of flats where she lives. One day, ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Radka Dulíková, Vít Olmer, Helena Kruzíková, Václav Lohniský
Votes: 95
24. Pocítání ovecek (1982 TV Movie)
77 min | Drama
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Zaneta Fuchsová, Vera Galatíková, Vlastimil Brodský, Nada Konvalinková
Votes: 47
25. The Stress of Youth (1962)
90 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Adults who have long ago lost their link to nature fail to understand the feelings a growing 12-year-old country girl has for a beautiful black stallion.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jorga Kotrbová, Rudolf Prucha, Milan Jedlicka, Zora Jiráková
Votes: 76
26. Nadeje (1964)
92 min | Drama, Romance
A group of outcasts, including a vagabond and a prostitute, gather at the outskirts of the industrial area of a large Czech city, one of the things that helps some of them survive is alcohol.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Hana Hegerová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Frantisek Peterka, Otto Simánek
Votes: 81
27. Nejistá sezóna (1988)
88 min | Comedy
The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance.
Director: Ladislav Smoljak | Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Ladislav Smoljak, Jaroslav Weigel, Jan Hrabeta
Votes: 419
28. Pozor, vizita! (1982)
88 min | Drama
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Libuse Svormová, Blazena Holisová, Ludovít Gresso
Votes: 222
29. Vlak detství a nadeje (1989– )
360 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Why do people like returning to their childhood in their memories? Most probably because seen through children's eyes, the world is better and merrier than as adults perceive it. Close ... See full summary »
Stars: Stanislav Zindulka, Jarmila Svehlová, Helena Ruzicková, Vladimír Javorský
Votes: 132
30. Smrt mouchy (1977)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Lubos Knytl, Jana Krausová, Miroslava Safránková, Otakar Brousek
Votes: 29
31. Rozpustený a vypustený (1985)
85 min | Comedy, Crime
A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.
Director: Ladislav Smoljak | Stars: Jirí Zahajský, Marek Brodský, Rudolf Hrusínský, Blazena Holisová
Votes: 578
32. Král Sumavy (1959)
90 min | Crime, Drama
A communist film about Czechoslovak border guards in the late 1940s and their struggle against smugglers and refugees.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Radovan Lukavský, Jirí Vala, Jirina Svorcová, Stanislav Remunda
Votes: 202
33. Fany (1995)
99 min | Drama
Oligophrenic Fany (Bohdalová) lives with her aunt who suddenly manages to travel abroad. Fany has to move to her sister (Jirásková). Two very different women, one mentally disabled and the ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jirina Bohdalová, Jirina Jirásková, Miroslav Donutil, Martin Huba
Votes: 227
34. Hanele (1999)
92 min | Drama, Romance
A drama focusing on the age-old conflict between faith, family and love in which every is hard. The lyric unfolds in Sub-Carpathian Ukraine in the 1930s. An enclave of Jews living there ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Lada Jelínková, Miro Noga, Jirí Ornest, Tána Fischerová
Votes: 165
35. Sestricky (1984)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
The young nurse Mari, the "last virgin of the group", decides to become a real woman. But she has bad luck, the warden catches her with a patient and she has to go to a distant border town as punishment.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Alena Mihulová, Jirina Jirásková, Ondrej Vetchý, Oldrich Vízner
Votes: 165
36. Cukrová bouda (1981)
85 min | Drama, War
In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jana Svandová, Michal Dlouhý, Marek Mikulás, Lubomír Kostelka
Votes: 25
37. Ztracená stopa (1956)
81 min | Adventure, Drama
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Zdenek Díte, Karol L. Zachar, Josef Bek
Votes: 13
38. Závrat (1963)
81 min | Drama
Geologists looking for tin stay at a country hotel.The manager's daughter experiences her first love.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Eva Solcová, Petr Skála, Oldrich Velen, Jaroslav Radimecky
Votes: 72
39. Vlak do stanice Nebe (1972)
80 min | Drama, War
In the middle of the war, a girl will be delighted with the railroad that takes the boys to school.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Zdena Smrcková, Michal Vavrusa, Josef Koza, Alena Procházková
Votes: 49
40. Mestem chodi Mikulas (1992 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
During the evening when St. Nicholas arrives to hand out gifts to good children, when human hearts and souls are yielding to the good deeds of the Christmas season, events in the lives of ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Daniel Douda, Eliska Balzerová, Josef Abrhám, Alena Mihulová
Votes: 95
41. Pouta (1961)
92 min | Drama
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Radovan Lukavský, Blanka Bohdanová, Jirina Svorcová, Zdenek Stepánek
Votes: 12
42. Smesný pán (1969)
81 min | Drama
Sixty-year old Professor Simek (Vladimír Smeral) is undergoing a serious heart operation. The surgeon Preclík is satisfied with the result, and after the successful operation he and his ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Jirí Adamíra, Zdenek Kryzánek, Evelyna Steimarová
Votes: 63
43. Noc nevesty (1967)
90 min | Drama
One day of autumn 1950, during the forced collectivization, the farmers lead their cattle into the common stables of the new cooperative. The cooperative's chairman, Picin, publicly calls ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Jana Brejchová, Mnislav Hofman, Gustáv Valach, Josef Kemr
Votes: 162
44. Pavlínka (1974)
90 min | Romance
After the death of her parents Pavlínka is borough up by her grandmother Barbora. They both live in a poor mountain region that has just one textile factory, in Svárov. Its owner Baron ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Brigita Hausnerová, Marián Kleis St., Marie Brozová, Vladimír Smeral
Votes: 18
45. Fandy, ó Fandy (1983)
87 min | Comedy
Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek, who has just graduated from high school ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Bohumir Stary, Dana Medrická, Stanislava Coufalová, Zuzana Hradecká
Votes: 45
46. Vanoce s Alzbetou (1968)
91 min | Drama, Romance
Surly solitary truck driver is given an assistant for his daily rounds: a young woman with a fondness for mini-skirts and boys, fresh out of prison.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Vlado Müller, Pavla Kárníková, Zdena Hadrbolcová, Mnislav Hofman
Votes: 40
47. Prima sezóna (1994– )
60 min | Romance
Danny, a high-school student, is the hero of this series set in the early forties. Everyone in his small Czech town thinks he's girl crazy, but he knows it isn't so. Danny plays the tenor ... See full summary »
Stars: Petr Kroutil, Anna Geislerová, Andrea Elsnerová, Tatiana Dyková
Votes: 19
48. Není stále zamraceno (1950)
73 min | Documentary
A film about life in the Czech border area after the expulsion of the Germans.
Directors: Vojtech Jasný, Karel Kachyna | Stars: Václav Pavelka, Ladislav Sedlák, Jaroslav Viták, Kamil Olsovsky
Votes: 24
49. Marta (2006)
81 min | Drama, War
The movie tells a drama of three people. Marek (Vojtech Stepánek) lives out in the mountains with his half-disabled father (Jan Novotný), separated from anyone else. He survives by poaching... See full summary »
Director: Marta Nováková | Stars: Petra Spalková, Jan Novotný, Vojtech Stepánek, Victor Fatka
Votes: 54
50. Horká zima (1974)
80 min | Drama, War
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Petr Hanicinec, Bronislav Krizan, Ladislav Trojan, Ilja Prachar
Votes: 12