Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "czechoslovakia-under-communism"

1. The Firemen's Ball (1967)

Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama

A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha, Frantisek Debelka

Votes: 12,197

2. 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: 2,187

3. Requiem for a Maiden (1992)

99 min | Drama, Thriller

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Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Anna Geislerová, Barbora Hrzánová, Sona Valentová, Eva Holubová

Votes: 390

4. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick

Votes: 24

5. Tábor padlych zien (1997)

99 min | Drama

The story takes place in a reform-camp for the prostitutes of Bratislava. Soon after the political changes in February 1948 a deputy of the Ministry of the Interior decides to clean the ... See full summary »

Director: Laco Halama | Stars: Juraj Kukura, Dana Dinková, Hana Gregorová, Mahulena Bocanová

Votes: 39

6. 1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Episode: The Dawn of the Cold War

56 min | Documentary, History, War

For the past four years, the top scientists on the planet had been perfecting what was to become the absolute weapon: the atomic bomb.

Director: Emilie Lançon | Stars: François Kersaudy, Clifton Truman Daniel, Curtis Roosevelt, Yuri Borko