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- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsJosef KemrMagda VásáryováNada HejnaA 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.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #1 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #2t - Reflex Poll 2011 #1 - Sight & Sound 2012 #1 - Kanon #4 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Public) #14 - Media Desk Poll 2010 (Public) #5 - Kanon 2018 (Public) #3
- DirectorJán KadárElmar KlosStarsIda KaminskaJozef KronerFrantisek ZvaríkA carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #2 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #2t - Kanon #7 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Public) #15
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsVlastimil BrodskýRadoslav BrzobohatýVladimír MensíkVarious scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #3 - Reflex Poll 2011 #4 - Kanon #8
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJan VostrcilJosef SebánekJosef ValnohaA volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #4 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) - #1 - Sight & Sound 2012 #6t - Kanon 100 #1 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Public) #9t - Kanon 2018 (Public) #2
- DirectorIvan PasserStarsKarel BlazekZdenek BezusekVera KresadlováOne of the most important films of the Czech New Wave 60s, it was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. In this original sad comedy set in a small town, two classmates meet each other for the first time in ten years. They are both musicians: one is a member of the regional symphony orchestra, while the other is a local music teacher who performs at funerals.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #5 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #4 - Sight & Sound 2012 #5t
- DirectorAlfréd RadokStarsBlanka WaleskáOtomar KrejcaViktor OcásekThe terrible effect of the Nazis upon a single Jewish family provides the basis for this drama. The family cannot handle the strain and gradually breaks up. Interspliced within the film are newsreel clips of angry crowds, and scenes of horror.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #6 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #9t - Kanon #3
- DirectorJan NemecStarsLadislav JánskyAntonín KumberaIlse BischofovaTwo 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.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #7t - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #7t - Reflex Poll 2011 #3 - Sight & Sound 2012 #6t - Kanon #5
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsVáclav NeckárJosef SomrVlastimil BrodskýAn apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #7t - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #3t - Reflex Poll 2011 #10 - Sight & Sound 2012 #3 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Public) #7
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlasta ChramostováJana StehnováSet in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #8 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #3t - Reflex Poll 2011 #2 - Kanon #6 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Public) #4 - Media Desk Poll 2010 (Public) #6 - Kanon 2018 (Public) #1
- DirectorPavel JurácekStarsLubomír KostelkaKlára JernekováMilena ZahrynowskaLemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #9 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #5t - Reflex Poll 2011 #6
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsJirina BohdalováRadoslav BrzobohatýGustav OpocenskýAfter 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.1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists #10 - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #10t - Sight & Sound 2012 #6t
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsKarel FialaRudolf DeylMilos KopeckýStraight 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 the refresher that assures deadly aim, convinces the Arizona sin-town to abstain from alcohol. But Trigger Whiskey maker Duke Badman's brother the devious gunslinger Hogofogo, comes to save his sibling's saloon from Joe's allies, father and daughter temperance revivalists, the Goodmans. Based on famous Czech parody novel from the 1940s and its various stage adaptations.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #5t - Filmové dědictví 2007 (Public) #9t - Media Desk Poll 2010 (Public) #7
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsVlastimil BrodskýRadoslav BrzobohatýVladimír MensíkVarious scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #5t
- DirectorGustav MachatýStarsHedy LamarrZvonimir RogozAribert MogEva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #6t
- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsPetr CepekJan KacerVera GalatíkováOndrej, a young boy who loves bees and bats, is introduced to his new mother, a woman much younger than his father. He brings her a basketful of flowers which she starts to throw in the air and then gives out a shriek, as she discovers several bats in the bottom of the bowl. In a rage, Ondrej's father picks the boy up and hurls him against the wall. As the boy lays on the ground paralyzed the father promises the Holy Virgin to dedicate the boy to her if she spares his life. Ondrej survives and is raised in a strict Knightly Order, where he is mentored by a devout monk, Armin. But one day, an extraordinary event makes him doubt the Order and remember where he came from.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #6t
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsHana BrejchováVladimír PucholtVladimír MensíkFactory manager gets army reserves to boost female workers' morale. Local beauty spurns them for jazz pianist who seduces her. She leaves for Prague to find him but his parents are displeased when she arrives.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #7t - Sight & Sound 2012 #6t
- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsIvana KarbanováJitka CerhováMarie CeskováAfter realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #8t - Sight & Sound 2012 #2 - Kanon #2
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsIva JanzurováJaromír HanzlíkLudek MunzarA 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.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #9t
- DirectorJan NemecStarsHelena PejskováJana PracharováZdena SkvoreckaA small group of bourgeois guests head for a birthday party of a prominent figure. As they go through the woods and have a picnic, they are suddenly surrounded by a bunch of suspicious strangers.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #9t
- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsJaromír HanzlíkZuzana CigánováJanusz StrachockiA lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #9t
- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsPetr CepekEmma CernáJan VostrcilIn the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when he discovers her sheltering her German-soldier brother.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #10t
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsLadislav JakimPavla MartinkovaJan VostrcilReality movie of a few days in the life of a Czech teenager when he starts work.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #10t - Reflex Poll 2011 #5
- DirectorLadislav RychmanStarsVladimír PucholtIvana PavlováMilos ZavadilA 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.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #10t
- DirectorJaromil JiresStarsJosef SomrJana DítetováLudek MunzarIn 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 later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #10t
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsJan WerichEmília VásáryováVlastimil BrodskýPeople 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.Filmové dědictví 2007 (Critics) #11t