Best award winning movies with an extremely slow pace from Czechoslovakia
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an extremely slow pace from Czechoslovakia! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an extremely slow pace from Czechoslovakia, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
7.3
2 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
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7.372
3 The Jester's Tale (1964)
An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka who get caught up in both sides of the war and experience many adventures before they find happiness. The film combines live action with animation to suggest the artistic style of the engraver Matthäus Merian.
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- 1964-12-18 | Adventure / History
Cast
- Petr Kostka, Miloslav Holub
Rating
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7.5
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4 The Cremator (1969)
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
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- 1969-03-14 | Comedy / Horror
Cast
- Rudolf Hrušínský, Vlasta Chramostová
Rating
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7.735
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5 Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
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- 1967-11-24 | Drama / History
Cast
- František Velecký, Magda Vášáryová
Rating
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7.858
6 Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
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- 1965-11-12 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt
Rating
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7.025
7 Daisies (1966)
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
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- 1966-12-30 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová
Rating
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7.325
8 Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity.
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- 1963-07-26 | Science Fiction
Cast
- Zdeněk Štěpánek, František Smolík
Rating
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6.883
9 Diamonds of the Night (1964)
A tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guardists. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.
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- 1964-09-25 | Drama
Cast
- Ladislav Janský, Antonín Kumbera
Rating
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7.1
10 The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (1983)
A short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".
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- 1983-07-28 | Animation / Horror
Cast
- Jan Žáček
Rating
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6.8