Best award winning movies with a refreshing take from Czechoslovakia
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a refreshing take from Czechoslovakia! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a refreshing take from Czechoslovakia, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 The Shop on Main Street (1965)
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.
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- 1965-09-09 | Drama / War
Cast
- Ida Kamińska, Jozef Kroner
Rating
7.372
2 Closely Watched Trains (1966)
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
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- 1966-11-18 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Václav Neckář, Jitka Scoffin
Rating
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7.3
3 The Elementary School (1991)
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very fair. His weakness though, is his interest in young women.
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- 1991-08-02 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Václav Jakoubek, Radoslav Budáč
Rating
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7.4
4 A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
A picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.
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- 1966-12-30 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Ivan Vyskočil, Jan Klusák
Rating
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6.886
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5 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
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- 1970-10-16 | Fantasy / Adventure
Cast
- Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýžová
Rating
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7.0
6 The Ear (1990)
Upon returning home from an official party, a Czech government official and his wife discover it bugged and surveilled by mysterious figures, driving them to paranoia and intensifying their discontents with one another.
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- 1990-01-01 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jiřina Bohdalová
Rating
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7.283
7 The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
The 20th century's first man lands on the moon and discovers - that Baron Munchausen has already beaten him to it, along with Cyrano and characters from Jules Verne's lunar-landing novel. The Baron spirits the young cosmonaut by horse-drawn ship back to an ancient "Earth", where they insult a sultan, rescue a princess, fall in love with the princess, and then as a trio have further experiences in a world of pastel colors, ornate dreamlike settings, and the inevitable angry disrupters of peacefulness and love.
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- 1962-07-01 | Fantasy / Adventure
Cast
- Miloš Kopecký, Jana Brejchová
Rating
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7.493
8 Words, Words, Words (1993)
In a cafe, people talk, their words become expresively-shaped balloons. An older waiter tries to connect with a young woman who's reading. She brushes him off, but gets into an animated and romantic conversation with a young man. A dog goes from table to table drinking beer and wine when people aren't looking. Older men talk about sexual conquests until one of their wives interrupts them. The young couple argues; he starts to leave, she pleads, he leaves anyway. The waiter tries to help. Old guys talk until they nod off. Women chat. Later, as the waiter cleans up, the finds the young woman's book. He sighs, the dog sleeps it off.
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- 1993-06-01 | Animation
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Rating
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5.8
9 Pearls of the Deep (1966)
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
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- 1966-01-07 | Comedy
Cast
- Pavla Maršálková, Ferdinand Krůta
Rating
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6.0
10 Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.
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- 1955-08-05 | Adventure / Fantasy
Cast
- Vladimír Bejval, Petr Herrmann
Rating
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7.358
