Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "czech-literature-on-screen"

1. Spaceman (I) (2024)

R | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Half a year into his solo mission on the edge of the solar system, an astronaut concerned with the state of his life back on Earth is helped by an ancient creature he discovers in the bowels of his ship.

Director: Johan Renck | Stars: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, Kunal Nayyar

Votes: 31,627

2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

R | 171 min | Drama, Romance

Central Europe, 1968: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint

Votes: 38,633 | Gross: $10.01M

3. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.

Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek

Votes: 11,226

4. Mother/Android (2021)

R | 110 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a post-apocalyptic world rocked by a violent android uprising, a young pregnant woman and her boyfriend desperately search for safety.

Director: Mattson Tomlin | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Algee Smith, Raúl Castillo, Linnea Gardner

Votes: 21,170

5. A Stolen Life (1946)

Passed | 109 min | Drama

When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan

Votes: 4,084

6. The Cremator (1969)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová, Milos Vognic

Votes: 10,770

7. Three Wishes for Cinderella (2021)

87 min | Family, Fantasy

A Cinderella story: in snow-heavy forests the heroine battles against her evil stepmother for her dream of meeting the handsome prince. This is a breathtaking ride featuring brilliant archery and a gorgeous palace ball.

Director: Cecilie A. Mosli | Stars: Astrid S, Bjørn Sundquist, Anne Marit Jacobsen, Toivo Ty Terjesen

Votes: 2,446

8. Little Otik (2000)

TV-14 | 132 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový

Votes: 6,874 | Gross: $0.12M

9. Closely Watched Trains (1966)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.

Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta

Votes: 13,839 | Gross: $3.27M

10. Marketa Lazarová (1967)

Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, History, Romance

A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.

Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka

Votes: 6,022

11. Pickup (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A lonely widowers life changes when he marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.

Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon, Howland Chamberlain

Votes: 839

12. Witchhammer (1970)

107 min | Drama, History, Horror

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.

Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr, Sona Valentová

Votes: 2,834

13. Brothers (2023)

135 min | Action, Drama, History

Adaptation of controversial real-life story from the 1950s.

Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Oskar Hes, Jan Nedbal, Adam Ernest, Tatiana Dyková

Votes: 309

14. Bylo nás pet (1994– )

360 min | Comedy

Young Petr and his four friends undergoes several adventures throughout this series--setting a field on fire, sneaking into a theater without paying and many more.

Stars: Adam Novák, Jaroslav Pauer, Oldrich Navrátil, Stepán Benyovszký

Votes: 362

15. Cosy Dens (1999)

115 min | Comedy, Drama

Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totally stupid; fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.

Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Michael Beran, Miroslav Donutil, Simona Stasová, Kristýna Nováková

Votes: 6,165

16. Il caso dell'infedele Klara (2009)

90 min | Drama, Romance

In contemporary Prague a young musician is obsessed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klara. He engages a private detective to spy on Klara but this starts an uncontrollable series ... See full summary »

Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Iain Glen, Laura Chiatti, Kierston Wareing

Votes: 446

17. Lemonade Joe (1964)

84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

Straight shooting Lemonade Joe cleans up Stetson City, in this musical parody of early Westerns, after shooting the pants off villain Old Pistol. Joe's endorsement of Kolaloka lemonade as ... See full summary »

Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Karel Fiala, Rudolf Deyl, Milos Kopecký, Kveta Fialová

Votes: 3,055

18. I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)

Not Rated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.

Directors: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb | Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká

Votes: 2,720

19. The Confession (1970)

GP | 139 min | Drama, Thriller

A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold

Votes: 4,811 | Gross: $0.33M

20. R.U.R.

Sci-Fi | Filming

A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results. Based on the famous 1920 play by Karel Capek, a satire ever more potent for today.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Mallory Jansen, Lindsay Farris

21. I Served the King of England (2006)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.

Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Marián Labuda

Votes: 8,192 | Gross: $0.62M

22. Wild Flowers (2000)

81 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Seven unrelated Czech fairy tales from 1853 by Karel Jaromír Erben, united by folklore, atmosphere, and visuals, form this anthology film exploring themes through a series of poetic vignettes without a cohesive narrative.

Director: F.A. Brabec | Stars: Martina Bezousková, Sylvie Kraslová, Sára Vorísková, Anna Bezousková

Votes: 1,483

23. Colette (2013)

126 min | Biography, Drama, History

Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most-renowned literary authors of our time. Lustig's novel 'A Girl from Antwerp,' upon which this film 'Colette' is based, draws on the author's ... See full summary »

Director: Milan Cieslar | Stars: Clémence Thioly, Jirí Mádl, Eric Bouwer, Andrej Hryc

Votes: 613

24. S certy nejsou zerty (1985)

95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Petr's greedy stepmother steals everything from her stepson. Meanwhile, Petr meets two daughters of a local duke. He falls in love with one of them, but she is very proud and Petr means ... See full summary »

Director: Hynek Bocan | Stars: Vladimír Dlouhý, Ondrej Vetchý, Jana Dítetová, Josef Kemr

Votes: 1,350

25. Písen z jizních Cech (1992 TV Short)

10 min | Short, Comedy

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Director: Jan David | Stars: Petr Kostka, Filip Novák

26. Larks on a String (1969)

94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská

Votes: 2,186

27. Zelary (2003)

R | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War

A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.

Director: Ondrej Trojan | Stars: Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Adamová

Votes: 3,748 | Gross: $0.33M

28. Gump - pes, který naucil lidi zít (2021)

92 min | Adventure, Family

A stray dog named Gump is searching for his place in the human world. He wishes to get a companion, but has to endure several challenges along the way.

Director: F.A. Brabec | Stars: Ivan Trojan, Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Ivana Chýlková

Votes: 267

29. Král Sumavy: Fantom temného kraje (2022– )

Drama

It is the spring of 1948. Twenty-four-year-old cook Josef Hasil serves in the kitchen of the National Security Corps in Zvonková. Wild boy. He had already experienced the war in a German labor camp and as a link between partisans.

Stars: Oskar Hes, Gabriela Heclová, Kristyna Ryska, Vojtech Vodochodský

Votes: 45

30. The Marriage Escape (2020)

103 min | Comedy, Drama

A middle-aged veterinary surgeon, believing that his wife pampers him too much, fakes the onset of dementia to get away from her.

Director: Johan Nijenhuis | Stars: Herman Finkers, Johanna ter Steege, Leonie ter Braak, Ferdi Stofmeel

Votes: 3,325

31. Ferat Vampire (1982)

90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A doctor Marek is shocked when his beloved nurse Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor makes him believe ... See full summary »

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Jirí Menzel, Dagmar Havlová, Jana Brezková, Petr Cepek

Votes: 649

32. The Noonday Witch (2016)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror

A story of Eliska and her daughter, starting a new life in a remote house, with the father away on business, as the mother claims. After the lie is exposed, their relationship begins to ... See full summary »

Directors: Jiri Sádek, Matej Chlupacek, Michal Samir | Stars: Anna Geislerová, Karolína Lipowská, Zdenek Mucha, Daniela Kolárová

Votes: 684

33. Diamonds of the Night (1964)

Not Rated | 67 min | Drama, War

Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

Director: Jan Nemec | Stars: Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova, Jan Riha

Votes: 2,905

34. R.U.R.: Genesis (2013)

7 min | Short, Action, Drama

Set in the style of a sexy, alt-history 1969, this adaptation depicts a world populated by genetically engineered workers ("artificials") -- perfect, made-to-order people who lack fundamental rights.

Director: James Kerwin | Stars: Chase Masterson, Kipleigh Brown, James Ellis Lane, Amara Cash

Votes: 31

35. Cutting it Short (1981)

93 min | Comedy

An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.

Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Magda Vásáryová, Jirí Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrusínský

Votes: 2,715

36. R.U.R. (1938 TV Movie)

35 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Technological progress, in the shape of Rossum's Universal Robots, threatens to dominate and wipe out mankind.

Stars: Derek Bond, Harvey Braban, William Lyon Brown, Cherry Cottrell

Votes: 19

37. Even Mice Belong in Heaven (2021)

80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A mouse and a fox die and find themselves in animal paradise and become best friends. Upon their return to earth they are reborn in opposite roles, but the power of friendship surpasses the impossible.

Directors: Jan Bubenicek, Denisa Grimmová | Stars: Erica Schroeder, Marc Thompson, Mike Pollock, Wayne Grayson

Votes: 757

38. The Joke (1969)

80 min | Drama

In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years ... See full summary »

Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar, Jaroslava Obermaierová

Votes: 1,704

39. Hlidac c.47 (2008)

108 min | Drama, Thriller

A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.

Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Karel Roden, Lucia Siposová, Václav Jirácek, Vladimír Dlouhý

Votes: 294

40. 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

41. The Spies (1957)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe

Votes: 1,098

42. Uzly a pomerance (2019)

92 min | Drama, Family, Romance

In love with a girl that smells of oranges while in a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek's ... See full summary »

Director: Ivan Pokorný | Stars: Tomás Dalecký, Emilie Neumeister, Stanislav Majer, Steffen Groth

Votes: 75

43. Velké trápení (1975)

87 min | Drama, Family

After the separation of her parents from her father, a 13-year-old girl is placed in an orphanage where she has difficulty settling in, but then begins to break away from her father because she sees through his selfishness.

Director: Jirí Hanibal | Stars: Renata Masková, Jana Stepánková, Bozena Böhmová, Eduard Cupák

Votes: 31

44. Oil Lamps (1971)

PG | 101 min | Drama

In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work ... See full summary »

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Petr Cepek, Marie Rosulková, Ota Sklencka

Votes: 398

45. Príbehy obycejného sílenství (2005)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

A black comedy based on director Petr Zelenka's successful stage play. It treats a simple theme: Jana has left Petr (Ivan Trojan), a boy 'who's not doing very well at the moment,' and he ... See full summary »

Director: Petr Zelenka | Stars: Ivan Trojan, Zuzana Sulajová, Zuzana Stivínová, Miroslav Krobot

Votes: 1,745

46. What a Man Wants (2018)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

A philandering cab driver makes a profound impression on his brother-in-law.

Director: Lee Byeong-heon | Stars: Lee Sung-min, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Ji-Hyo, Lee El

Votes: 467

47. Aristokratka ve varu (2024)

Comedy

Count Frank Kostka, his wife Vivien and their daughter Marie live in their ancestral castle Kostka. The housekeeper Mrs. Ticha, the maintenance man Krasa and the castellan Josef help them ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Vejdelek | Stars: Tatiana Dyková, Hynek Cermák, Eliska Balzerová, Pavel Liska

Votes: 24

48. There Was Once a King... (1955)

107 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A story about a king who out of three daughters preferred two: the most beautiful and the most cheerful, and the most intelligent, and even able to cook well, he kicked out, which he later bitterly regretted.

Director: Borivoj Zeman | Stars: Jan Werich, Vlasta Burian, Irena Kacírková, Stella Májová

Votes: 1,308

49. Krakatit (1948)

97 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After an accidental explosion in the lab, its inventor slips in and out of dream-like hallucinations, realizing that he had given the formula to one of his colleagues, who he tries to stop before it is too late.

Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Karel Höger, Florence Marly, Eduard Linkers, Jirí Plachý

Votes: 476

50. The Oddsockeaters (2016)

83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The Oddsockeaters are small creatures, who live alongside us humans and are responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair - the odd sock. They eat socks, but only one from each pair.

Director: Galina Miklínová | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Jan Maxián, David Novotný, Ondrej Trojan

Votes: 301