Directed by Oldřich Lipský • Drama • With Rudolf Hrušínský , Olga Schoberová, Miloš Kopecký • 1978 • 102 minutes

Czech director Oldřich Lipský's beloved cult hit about a handsome but bumbling detective and a man-eating plant is an irresistible slapstick combination of 19th century James Bond gad...

Directed by Jan Švankmajer • Animation • 1989 • 84 minutes

When Alice follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland, so begins this dream expedition into the astonishing landscape of childhood, through many dangerous adventures, and ultimately to Alice's trial before the King and Queen of Hearts.

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Directed by Tomáš Luňák • Animation • With Miroslav Krobot,
Marie Ludvíková,
Karel Roden • 2012 • 80 minutes

It is the end of summer, 1989. Alois Nebel works as a train dispatcher at a small railway station in the Sudetenland, a mountainous region on the Czechoslovak border. He is a loner who pr...

Directed by Jan Svankmajer • Drama • With Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla • 1994 • 97 minutes

Jan Svankmajer’s Faust is a rendering of the infamous Dr. Faustus fable of temptation and damnation. Borrowing freely from both Marlowe and Goethe and ancient folktales and timeless myths, the sto...

Directed by Jan Šikl • Documentary • 2021 • 99 minutes

For 30 years, director Jan Šikl has collected amateur films from families in his community. Then one day, he is brought archival materials - stock shot by Czech military cameramen, which remained hidden for over half a century. Jan accomplis...