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- A portrait of a Nazi officer, the commander of a concentration camp, touches on the contradictory sides of his personality - on the one hand, a caring, nurturing family man, on the other, a ruthless Nazi, applying a policy of extermination without restraint. It is this man, who takes on 13-year-old Emilka, a Czech girl destined for "re-education"; through her eyes, we then see the imposed family, the complex formation of relationships with a man who tries to treat her kindly. The little girl goes through a painful discovery of true reality. During her stay in Germany, she tries not to forget her real home and believes that she will meet her mother once more in her life and return.
- 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 seeds from which he grew flowers whose scent gave him the ability to age and fly. Such a possibility, as you will recognize, Cestmír had to take advantage of.
- The four best friends are confident, smart, having fun, discussing men, relationships and sex. But they're also taking care of kids, or they just had kids, or they're pregnant. Sara has a nice ass, so she started taking pictures of it and living in the world of social media. Hedvika lives in a bit of a golden cage, her workaholic husband isn't home much, so it's no wonder she's charmed by the young busker David. Zuzana, after her break-up with Kamil, is penniless, just a worked-up and hurried mother of two. Slovak immigrant Eliska, on the other hand, has a great boyfriend, unbearable parents, is pregnant and is sick of everything.
- Robin Svátek is a young rock guitarist who is trying to break through with his band and finally earn money from his music. He and his band gave themselves a one-year deadline and now, even after two years, the boys in the band want to give up their dream. All they have is debt and nothing to pay it with. At this point, Robin gets a call from Maikl Boss and offers them to play with him. Maikl Boss, an aging pop star trying to make a comeback. He also wants to get his producer, Dr. Schwartz, to give him the money to do it by offering the singing job to Schwartz's daughter, Erica. She claims to have new songs, but steals them from Robin. Robin's band decides to accept the offer because they desperately need the money.
- Young doctor Vencl is going through a difficult beginning. In the small town and especially in the surrounding isolated villages, he must first overcome the distrust of the locals, who still prefer to be treated by incantations. He has to get used to being led to a stable at night in the secluded forest, because an animal is often worth more than a human being. He also fights victoriously with the councilors who do not want to give him anything from the municipal coffers. He endures the bullying of the mayor's wife and wins the trust of the poorest of the poor.
- A children's fantasy comedy about little Lucie, the nasty leader of the boys' party Osvald and two magical characters from the plasticine. Lucie is a six-year-old girl who can't wait to go to school for the first time. And since all her friends are still on holiday, she has no one to play with. Osvald's fifth-grade group doesn't care about little girls. Unless she proves her mettle by shoplifting. Lucie goes to the department store and reaches for a box of plasticine. And this is the beginning of an extraordinary adventure, for out of the box come two magical plasticine figures who become Lucie's mythical friends with whom she will have the most wonderful adventure at the end of the summer. Directly followed by ...a zase ta Lucie! (1984).
- The fairy tale tells the story of an orphan, Zito, whose life since birth has brought him many injustices, but only until the widowed devil Filistýna falls in love with him. She enables him to correct, through magic, the sinful deeds committed by commoners and rulers alike. Little does the boy know that the ability to cast spells has been bestowed on him by the devil in love only to trick him into hell, even on the day Zito is to marry his beloved Adelka. Will the tiny but clever Zito manage to get out of hell not only Adelka, himself, but also the herbalist who found and raised him as an infant in a field of rye?
- Lieutenant Commander Izidor Vlk and Lieutenant Commander Herkules Drátek are applying for the position of Criminal Service Commander. When Vlk fails due to his stupidity, his assistant is determined to help her chief to the post by cutting the brake lines of Drátek's car. However, the newly appointed crime chief orders Wolf to ride in the car with him, and the two end up crashing. The condition of both wounded is serious, and both need transplants. In the end, only Wire survives. A few months later, Major Prubner, Drátek's subordinate, is summoned with his team, his colleague Skálová and detectives Rorýs and Dymák to the murder case of Katerina Starablazková. Starablazková had an axe stuck in her head and a large sign on the furniture in her apartment said ATSMOP. However, Prubner and his people also found the same sign in the case of the suicide of Kozina Sladky, who jumped from the 123rd floor of a block of flats, and in the case of the murdered former head of the criminal police, Horváth. The perpetrator also put police psychologist Kmonícková into deep hypnosis. She too had a strange sign in her office.
- A truck driver Charvát returned from prison six months ago. His colleagues know his past, but in front of his landlady and her 10-year-old son, Charvát comes across as a man of integrity and reliability. One weekend night, the man gives a lift to two female students who missed the last train. Unable to control his repressed desires, he rapes one of the girls and murders them both in a remote location. Their bodies are disposed of in a large dump. But the corpses are discovered the next day by an old forester, and the search is on.
- Once upon a time, there was a band of robbers, ruled by Lotrando, the robber of robbers. He took from the poor and the rich, and gave generously to his cronies. His son had long since outgrown his childhood shoes, so Lotrando decided that his son would get a good education. At the same time, by the Sargasso Sea in the Sultanate of Soliman, the Sultan is agonizing over the mysterious illness of his beautiful daughter Zubeida. Will the princess recover with the arrival of Lotrando and his new friend, the double doctor Drnec, or not?
- Michal, a young waiter who works in a restaurant, gets into trouble when he is robbed of the proceeds he was supposed to deliver to the bank on his boss's orders. Since he is on probation, he realizes that no one will believe him and pretends that everything is fine. At the same time, he asks for help from his friend, Tomás, a taxi driver, who borrows sixty thousand crowns from Adamec, a dangerous extortionist. Since the loan is only for a week and at twenty percent interest, they both start looking for money.
- Three unmarried sisters, Katka, Eliska and Magda, go for an extended wellness weekend to a luxury hotel in Spindleruv Mlyn. Katka, the oldest, hates her job, where she spends so much time that she has no chance to make friends. Magda is a tattooed free-thinker and the youngest, Eliska, who thought up the whole trip, is quite a successful model. The ladies plan to ski and pick up some rich men. However, there was a mistake in the booking system and all three end up in alternative accommodation, which is far from luxurious.
- Alice reports to the police that she has been raped. However, her statement first arouses distrust among the police and then the doctors. Investigator Petra takes up her case and, as part of her investigation, begins to uncover disturbing facts and suspects that spiritual guru Marek, whom Alice accuses of rape, has committed sexual violence against dozens of women with the help of his female co-worker Klára in the context of a would-be therapeutic yoga class. He must be stopped, prosecuted and brought to justice as quickly as possible. In addition to the investigation process itself, the story also reveals Alice's private life, her long-term unfavorable living situation and her constant struggle for her young daughter Emma with her ex-partner Radek. It becomes clear that Alice's past behavior in the relationship was not ideal, which further undermines the trust of those around her in Alice's version of what should have happened to her and the other women.
- Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato. The student Vavrinec has fled Bohemia and greatly values the text of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, which he has acquired on his wanderings around the world.
- Mirek is an ordinary fifteen-year-old boy whose biggest hobby is animals. He has just finished the ninth grade and is deciding where to go next. His parents want him to study chemistry, but he doesn't want to, he wants to go to veterinary school. He even tears up the application form. But his parents are adamant.
- Drugs from West Berlin are smuggled into Karlovy Vary, through several arranged intermediaries. One of the prominent members of the criminal organization is the elegant Eva Krausová. However, even the Czech security officers have no idea that she is actually a member of Czech counter-intelligence. Thanks to her information, the criminals, led by Lieutenant Colonel Korán, can launch a massive operation against smugglers, traffickers and the drug addicts. However, the presence of undercover officers among the "ants" does not remain secret for long, and the head of the smuggling gang sends a hit man to Czechia, whose task is to disarm all those involved.
- A cult Czech musical from director Ladislav Rychman has remained popular with generations of Czech viewers for its sympathetic portrayal of young rebellion, timeless humor, and catchy songs courtesy of Jirí Malásek, Jirí Bazant and Vlastimil Hála.
- One evening, two fairies - Worry and Fortune with their young assistant Mina - are walking through old Prague. As it is Fortune's birthday, she decides to give people a gift - she enchants quite ordinary slippers to fulfill the wearer's every wish. The slippers then change hands that evening and everything they have ever dreamed of suddenly becomes a reality. But what people wish for is often very tricky, and it may not always bring one the desired happiness. Rather, it happens to be misery. Even Fortune becomes convinced of this when she realizes that happiness is something everyone must earn for themselves.
- The story about the love of 19-year-old Ondrej and 17-year-old Alena. Ondrej's parents want to meet the girl of their beloved son, so Alice goes to the visit. Unfortunately, the seemingly peaceful visit of the girl to Ondrej's parents takes a completely unexpected turn, thanks to his mother, and a quarrel breaks out between the women and Alena leaves. Ondrej does not want to give up his love and apologizes to Alena for his parents' behavior. Despite the reluctance of Ondrej's parents, the young people even start planning a future together and even a wedding. However, the protest that the young hero of the story wanted to make suddenly turns against his best interests and the tempting chance that presents itself.
- Three Fates come to the castle to predict the fate of little Prince Leopold. On the way they stop at the commander of the guards, who has also just had a son. His prediction is not very glorious. Hynek is supposed to be a mischievous boy who will think mainly of food. Little Leopold is predicted by the Fates to marry the daughter of a neighboring king. The prince and princess hate each other as children from the first moment, but their parents insist on fulfilling the prophecy. On the day of their marriage, Leopold and Josephine discover a way to thwart it. They steal the magical watch from the Fates and use it to go back to the time of the prince's birth to prevent the Fates from making the prediction. They succeed in doing so, but on their return they discover what they have done not only to themselves, but to the kingdom as a whole.
- Zdenek, a nineteen-year-old conservatory student, meets the girl Eva again after a carefree holiday. Eva is one of his casual acquaintances and is expecting a child. Although Zdenek understands that he is not the father of the child, he is convinced that "everyone must have someone". His qualities include tenacity and the will not to give in to difficulties. And so - unlike Eva - he goes from being a carefree student to a responsible parent.
- Matej Hurka, an eighteen-year-old bricklayer's apprentice and volunteer fireman who lives with his grandmother in a picturesque village, loves nature and would like to be a forester. In addition, however, he experiences his first love for the pretty Barca Cupalová, who has returned to her parents after a long stay in a distant county town. Matej is too shy, however, and before he can get his groove on at the dance that evening, Barca is taken away from him by the sovereign dude Evzen. And while his grandmother is wondering how to announce to her grandson, whom she is raising alone after his mother's death, that she is going to marry the energetic pensioner Vokurka, Matej is struggling with his own love problems and other rather delicate difficulties. A meeting of the cooperative's board of directors addresses his transgression against morality when he took an evening swim in a forest pond and "clashed" with the girls, who were also bathing, naked of course.
- Fascist Slovak State, Christmas Day 1944: regardless of this important Christian holiday, cruel Nazi repression is taking place in Slovakia. Men, women and children are executed by the hundreds by the Germans for taking part in the Slovak National Uprising and for merely helping the partisans. The Kubis family tries to survive the war as best they can, even if it means collaboration. Son Marian is a commander of the fascist guards, his cynical brother-in-law Palo runs a business and tries to keep a low profile as much as possible. Palo's wife Angela has begun an affair with Nazi Major Brecker, who is staying with the Kubis. However, a serious threat to everyone, including the grandparents, comes from their nineteen-year-old son Juraj, who fought with the partisans and managed to escape execution. The young man arrives home with an injured leg. While the Germans carry out house-to-house searches for the fugitive, Juraj waits in the attic for medical help and begins to delirious with fever. An "idyllic" Christmas Eve dinner takes place downstairs, to which Major Brecker himself has invited himself.
- Tereza is a sculptor and her husband Adam is a film director. She is suffocating in the relationship, she has no space and cannot concentrate on her work. The stagnant waters of this vicious situation only move when Adam's brother Majky shows up.
- A young window cleaner turns into an apartment burglar tipster. Will he be able to start a new, more honest life?
- The teacher Václav goes every evening to watch the princess skating on the frozen lake, but he doesn't admit to himself that he is in love with her. One day, the star Denicka, the fiancee of the radiant Sirius, who was knocked down by the jealous Proxima, shows up at his house. Every star on earth is fading, but pure, selfless love can give it strength. When Denicka discovers that Václav loves the princess, she decides to help their love and thus save herself. But Proxima is determined not to give up and to do anything to shine next to Sirius instead of Denicka.
- The two heroes of the film's story - the decent but dry engineer Záruba and the marriage swindler Majer - are granted their wish to be someone else by the mysterious forces of the Moon. The two men change their appearance, but this contrasts sharply with their unchanged characters and voices. The incomprehensible swap naturally becomes the source of many comic situations.
- Members of an organized group that smuggles heroin from France to Italy send a new shipment of the drug via Sweden, Germany and Czechia. A new ballet is about to premiere at the Fibich Theatre in Prague. However, the situation is complicated by a horrific event: prima ballerina Milada Havlová is found dead in her dressing room. The autopsy and the first analyses reveal that she died of a heroin overdose. Captain Chrástek is in charge of the investigation and believes that it is not an accident but murder. An investigation unfolds which reveals not only the strained relations between the members of the ballet company, but above all an international criminal network.
- The last meeting with the magical Pan Tau in a story that is not only for children. Its hero is the actor Rudolf Karásek, who fifteen years ago was a famous representative of the children's beloved Pan Tau. Today, he only remembers his former glory and seeks solace in alcohol. One day, however, a Barrandov Studios employee appears at his villa, where he lives with his daughter Hanka and her two sons, and hands him the script for a new film about Pan Tau. During rehearsals, however, it becomes clear that Karásek is not up to the difficult role. The director starts looking for a replacement or a double. His assistant Alena brings him Mr Novák, who seems to have fallen out of Pan Tau's eye. He handles all the difficult scenes with aplomb. Karásek becomes jealous of the double's success and his popularity with the children who play him in the film.
- The three main characters are Michal, an airplane mechanic, Marie, a fashion designer, and ten-year-old Honzík, who form a seemingly happy, well-adjusted family. Michal goes out with his son to fly aeronautical models, while his mother works on her designs and they spend weekends together at the cottage by the pond. However, the first moments of unrest, caused mainly by the workload of the ambitious Marie, start to creep into the peaceful relationship. She is currently preparing the costumes for a stage play. It is her first job for the theatre and since she wants to make a name for herself in this field, the result is important to her. She finds it hard to bear that her designs have not been received with enthusiasm, and she is slowly starting to get into a time crunch.
- 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 great-grandfather's nightgown, who was said to have been a ridiculous dreamer and inventor of nonsensical objects. Only my great-grandmother considered her late husband, a professor at the local high school, to be an unacknowledged genius. Kája, after sleeping through the night in his great-grandfather's nightgown, gave his grandmother the full benefit of the doubt. Not only did he experience a trip to prehistoric times in his great-grandfather's class, but he learned an important piece of information here. His older brother Radim, a designer for a large automobile company, had long been struggling with a groundbreaking invention. His great-grandfather tells Kája that he himself once worked on a similar invention, a car that would run for free and without harmful emissions, and buried the important documentation in the garden.
- A comedy about what one summer storm, one city ordinance, a set of golf clubs, rock and roll and one very angry daughter can do.
- Why does the esteemed Professor Presbury sometimes act like a lunatic? Does his climbing mania have something to do with the late passion with which he developed for the young, charming girl Alice? The famous duo of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, the professor's secretary and his daughter's fiance, try to find out all this and more.
- The family of the professor, his wife and daughter Pavla is staying with a high school student. The young man stirs up the long-standing, cold family environment, where there are no warm relations between the relatives. He tries to show the girl that she has the right to her own, joyful, full life. But her mother is scarred by her own experiences, unable to forgive her husband for his long-ago mistake, or to give her own daughter the right to happiness. Yet the young man manages to provoke in the girl a desire for action.
- Renata is the happy mother of a seven-year-old daughter and she and her partner, journalist Ivan, live in a First Republic wooden cabin on the bank of a flooded quarry. The place is idyllic, but the relationship between Renata and Ivan is more complicated. Ivan is now a forgotten curmudgeon, while Renata, who has become a director, is at the height of her powers. She meets a new and fierce love and must painfully decide this unexpected problem.
- Screwball comedy about a prank that could have come at a high cost. Valentin Plavec, a very hardworking but also very naive insurance clerk, becomes the target of endless jokes and pranks of his colleagues Bejsovec and Voborník. However, their last successful stunt got a bit out of hand. They added a 1 to the winning number 8456 and told Valentin that he had won a million in the lottery. But since Valentin cannot collect his winnings immediately, he withdraws twenty thousand, which is all the savings he has saved with his fiancee Helena, and starts shopping for a deposit.
- Two inseparable teenage friends are experiencing their first year after successful graduation from an industrial school and both have to deal with a number of private problems.
- This retro crime story revolves around a bottle of French cognac that was used to kill the charming Dana Matousová in a high-end Prague establishment. All the threads of the intricate case, which involves gambling and in which both the hotel staff and the guests, including a mysterious Persian diplomat, gradually fall under suspicion, are skillfully untangled by police councilor Vacátko and his colleagues. The intricate charade is mainly the responsibility of the hotel's manager, Hnízdo, who tries to preserve the hotel's reputation at all costs.
- Helenka, a textile student, invents the ideal man, who is the envy of all her friends. The dreamy and brooding Helenka defends herself against her complexes with an imaginary lover, her more realistic friend Zuzka would also prefer the dream Patrik, but in the end she will probably be happy with the less ideal Honza, and the self-confident vulgar nymphomaniac Sylva flits like a butterfly from one lover to the next, only to end up waiting for the dream Patrik.
- A few weeks in the life of the family of an attractive woman, the TV presenter Magda, her second husband and her teenage son. Magda is a lively, energetic woman, not for nothing is she called "the boss" at home. Apart from her profession, she also handles other problems brilliantly. Her dream is to finally move from her small apartment to her self-built villa by the river and to make it by Christmas Eve. But everything is unpredictable and sometimes life finds its own ways. Whether it's a chance meeting with an interesting man, a doctor, or a son's coming of age, his first love and his struggle to break free from the loving but somewhat tight grip of his mother's care.
- Prague of the 1930s. A pretty young girl boards a crowded tram. Suddenly she catches the attention of a young man who not only appreciates the girl's charm, but also tries to steal her handbag. And so we are introduced to one of the main characters in Death of the Black King, Josef Korínek alias Pépi, a swindler, pickpocket and all round strange existence. Apart from him, the story is populated with other characters from the Prague periphery. Of course, the film also features the dashing councilor Vacátko and his inseparable investigators Bruzek and Bouse. They have a sad duty - to track down the murderer of the collector Král, who was found dead and who lost a sum of money on his way out of the bank that could be of interest to many people in his neighborhood.
- Mr. Jost, a 33-year-old young engineer, has a beautiful wife and a young daughter. But he finds it hard to bear that everything is the same every day. He has an unexciting job and a family where the same scenes are repeated and the same sentences are uttered every day. No wonder he wants to break the vicious circle at any cost. Five women, selected by computer on the basis of an advertisement, enter the scene.
- Osvald, stripped of honor of being leader of children's party, prepares a terrible revenge.
- 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 harrowing. The owner of the junk shop, Mrs. Severýnová, has no idea about the value of the carpet and so she uses it as a bed for her female dog Amina. The noble Dr. Vitasek eventually gets involved with a burglar because of his passion. / In 'Tales of a Marriage Swindler', Inspector Holub searches for a previously unknown and elusive man who has swindled tens of thousands of crowns from lonely elderly women. What is his surprise when, after some time, he tracks down a well-known firm, the former lottery ticket swindler Mr. Plichta. He had to acquire five gold teeth after his prison term, which made him look attractive and trustworthy to the old ladies. And so he began to put his newfound ability to good use. And he can't stop even after his arrest, on his way to the police station.
- The romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at a carnival who seems familiar. He thinks he has seen her in an old castle where the villagers believe only the old countess and her sister live. It is in their salon in town that he meets the girl again and learns her history.
- 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 without much glory and is about to start his first job. Fandy is still full of boyish dreams, yearns for a career as a rowing representative, competes with a friend for the favor of an admiring girl and is generally stubbornly opposed to taking life seriously.
- 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 the construction of a corn drying plant and he also strongly opposes the views of the new chairman Urban, who wants to introduce an associated furniture production in the cooperative. The enterprising Mr Weber, a thief and a swindler, gets involved and deprives Janák of a lot of money. However, Michal and his friends hatch a plan to catch the crook red-handed and get back the co-operative's money and their savings.
- On the banks of the Otava River stands a manor house, which a group of boys find very mysterious. After visiting it, the boys discover that there is nothing here but an old lady with her granddaughter. The group splits into two camps and "hot" fights ensue, but they don't last long.
- As a punishment, Matej the Devil has to grant poor young Ondra's wishes until he says he is completely happy. But can such happiness ever be achieved? Hell has its doubts, and it seems rightly so, but the other devils are also amused by Matej's cluelessness. After fulfilling the usual wishes, when Ondra finally gets warm, eats well and gets dressed, a more serious complication comes. Ondra falls in love with Rézinka, the chateau's chambermaid, and Matej the devil also finds favor with Marjánka the cook. But that's not all. A treacherous baron enters the picture, invited by Count Hubert to the courtship and, in fact, to the engagement feast, and it is clear that nothing good can come of this infernal mixture. Especially when Ondra, a bit recklessly, promises the Count that he will build a brand new lavish castle for Rézinka by the next morning. That's a very difficult task for a devil like Matej.
- 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 their money by petty theft and fraud. One day Jitka takes a liking to Tonek, a waiter's apprentice. The girl returns his feelings, but at the same time she doesn't want to drag him down. But her cronies have no scruples. And so Tonek becomes a member of their gang.