Movies by Lists - Czech New Wave (64 [67]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 322A psychological drama of the illness of an individual and the illness of the society. | 1969 | Dusan Hanák | Drama | 6.8 (214 votes) | 95 | 20220806 |
| AdelheidIn 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 | 1970 | Frantisek Vlácil | Drama | 7.3 (839 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| All My Compatriots [Vsichni dobrí rodáci]Various 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. | 1969 | Vojtech Jasný | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (882 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| And the Fifth Horseman Is Fear [a pátý jezdec je Strach]A Jewish doctor in Nazi occupied Czech Republic (then Bohemia and Moravia) risks his life and attempts to regain his identity by assisting a wounded political fugitive. | 1965 | Zbynek Brynych | Drama, War | 7.2 (533 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Audition [Talent competition; Konkurs]Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete. | 1964 | Milos Forman (*) | Documentary, Music | 6.6 (735 votes) | 47 | 20211228 |
| Ballad of the Seven Hanged [Balada o siedmich obesených]Seven people waiting for their death. A group of assasins - three men and two women - and Gypsy thief spend their time in prison to be tucked up. | 1968 | Martin Hollý | Drama | 7.3 (106 votes) | 61 | 20220806 |
| Behold Homolka [Ecce homo Homolka]It is a beautiful Sunday and the Homolka family are having a picnic in a forest not far from Prague. The grandfather and grandmother have settled comfortably in the grass, their son Ludva romps about in the river with his two youn... | 1970 | Jaroslav Papousek | Comedy | 7.4 (642 votes) | 83 | 20220806 |
| Birds, Orphans and Fools [Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni]Three adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy. | 1969 | Juraj Jakubisko | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, War | 7.3 (825 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Black Peter [Cerný Petr]Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czech teenager when he starts work. | 1964 | Milos Forman (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (2.7K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Boring Afternoon, A [Fádní odpoledne]An elderly man sits in a pub on a summer Sunday afternoon. At another table, four middle-aged ladies play cards and sing to themselves in a low voice. The publican is scandalized by a young man who keeps ordering one beer after anoth | 1964 | Ivan Passer | Short | 7.1 (183 votes) | 14 | 20211228 |
| Capricious Summer [Rozmarné léto]The friends enjoy the charms of nature - and of their guests. | 1968 | Jirí Menzel | Comedy | 6.9 (1.5K votes) | 74 | 20220806 |
| Carriage to Vienna [Kocár do Vídne]A 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. | 1966 | Karel Kachyna | Drama, War | 7.7 (760 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Case for a Rookie Hangman [Prípad pro zacínajícího kata]Lemuel 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 | 1970 | Pavel Jurácek | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.0 (563 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Celebration in the Botanical Garden [Slávnost v botanickej záhrade]Take a look at our favorite movie and TV stills from the past year. Spot any of your faves? | 1969 | Elo Havetta | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.6 (154 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Closely Watched Trains [Ostre sledované vlaky]An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform. | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 7.7 (12.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Copper Tower, The [Medená veza]A dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in the High Tatras. On the arrival of the wife of one of them their perfect friendship is put to a test. | 1970 | Martin Hollý | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (267 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Courage for Every Day [Kazdy den odvahu]Jarda Lukás (Jan Kacer), a worker from a big machine-tool plant, enjoyed a rather decent career after the Communist putsch in February 1948. As one of the pioneers of the youth-movement of stakhanovites, he skilfully engaged himself | 1964 | Evald Schorm | Drama | 6.4 (293 votes) | 85 | 20220414 |
| Cremator, The [Spalovac Mrtvol]Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. | 1969 | Juraj Herz | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.0 (8.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Crucial Years [Kristove roky]Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in his life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creat | 1967 | Juraj Jakubisko | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (220 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Cry, The [Krik]TV mechanic Slávek (Josef Abrhám) takes his wife Ivana (Eva Límanová) to the maternity hospital. From the moment they say goodbye, the couple can't stop thinking about each other. Their common life up to now unfolds in fragments of m | 1964 | Jaromil Jires | Drama | 6.8 (189 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Daisies [Sedmikrasky]After 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? | 1966 | Vera Chytilová | Comedy | 7.4 (11.8K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Deserter and the Nomads, The [Zbehovia a pútnici]Three war stories ranging from World War I to a post-apocalyptic nuclear holocaust treat death and the fragility of the humankind through different approaches. | 1968 | Juraj Jakubisko | Drama, War | 6.7 (241 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Diamonds of the Night [Démanty noci]Two 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. | 1964 | Jan Nemec | Drama, War | 7.4 (2.4K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| End of a Priest, The [Faráruv konec]A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with th... | 1969 | Evald Schorm | Comedy | 7.2 (195 votes) | 98 | 20220806 |
| Every Young Man [Kazdy mlady muz]Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova). I... | 1966 | Pavel Jurácek | Comedy | 6.6 (71 votes) | 83 | 20240609 |
| Firemen's Ball TheA volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned. | 1967 | Milos Forman (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (10.6K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Five Girls Around the Neck [Pet holek na krku]The father of fourteen-year old Natasa is the chairman of the housing department at the Municipal National Committee. His position is probably the cause of the high living standard of his family. Natasa has everything, even a box ... | 1967 | Evald Schorm | Drama | 7.1 (38 votes) | 88 | 20220806 |
| Fruit of Paradise [Ovoce stromu rajských jíme]An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence. | 1970 | Vera Chytilová | Drama | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Funeral Ceremonies [Smutecní slavnost]I took a punt on this having heard of neither the film, nor the director, nor indeed the novel it is based upon, or the writer herself. Short, powerful, and broken into three parts that shift between two periods of time, it is that rare thing, a realist piece plain and simple, with none of the modifiers that trouble that term from time to time. The social realism of a Ken Loach, for example, may not be so oxymoronic as the socialist realism beginning to glut the cinemas in the Stalinist lands of the period on display here, but it is forced nonetheless, as would be immediately evident if the few short mentions of collective farming in Smutecn? slavnost were compared to similar scenes in Land and Freedom or The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Here, the sparse dialogue appears at no point to serve any other purpose than carrying what the viewer feels to be these people's real intentions; and people, not characters or actors, they remain throughout. And who are these people? An admirably mulish widow, a craven priest, a handful of party functionaries, a crowd of farmers, a crowd of mourners, a handful of musicians, and one man who we see at first moribund, dead, and then vigorous with, though it may take a different expression, the same judicious defiance as his wife. They knew what they were doing when they banned it and since I walked out of the cinema less willing than ever to be pushed around or told what to think, I would say it has lost none of its force. | 1969 | Zdenek Sirový | Drama | 7.3 (152 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Golden Fern, The [Zlaté kapradí]Czech fairy tale about a shepherd who finds a golden fern with magical powers. He can ensure his continued happiness if he does the right thing, but will he? | 1963 | Jirí Weiss | Fantasy | 7.1 (120 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Happy EndA dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motiv | 1967 | Oldrich Lipský (*) | Comedy, Crime | 8.0 (1.2K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Hotel for Strangers [Hotel pro cizince]Once, a young poet (Petr Cepek) has been killed in the Art Nouveau setting of the castle The World. Later, his diary is found and the brief and incoherent notes became the basis for the story of the events preceding the murder. | 1967 | Antonín Mása | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (94 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Intimate Lighting [Intimní osvetlení]One of the most important images of the Czech New Wave 60s, which was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. Feature debut screenwriter and director Ivan Passer is currently his only feature-length film, which was shot | 1965 | Ivan Passer | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.3 (1.5K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Joke, The [Zert]In 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 seduci | 1969 | Jaromil Jires | Drama | 7.1 (1.4K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Joseph Kilian [Postava k podpírání]A man borrows a cat and when he goes back to return it, the place where he got it is no longer there. He begins his search. | 1963 | Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt | Short, Drama | 7.3 (438 votes) | 38 | 20211228 |
| Junk Shop, The [Sberné surovosti]Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop. | 1965 | Juraj Herz | Comedy, Short | 6.5 (282 votes) | 32 | 20220723 |
| Larks on a String [Skrivanci na Niti]Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. | 1969 | Jirí Menzel | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (1.8K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Larks on a String [Skrivánci na niti]Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. | 1969 | Jirí Menzel | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (1.9K votes) | 94 | 20220315 |
| Late August at the Hotel Ozone [Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon]A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man. | 1967 | Jan Schmidt | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (584 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Lemonade JoeStraight 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 (Crazy Cola) lemonade as the refresher that assures deadl | 1964 | Oldrich Lipský (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western | 7.5 (2.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Long Live the Republic [At' zije Republika]It is the spring 1945 and the front line is getting closer to the small Moravian village of Nesovice. Twelve-year old Oldrich Vareka, nicknamed Shorty for his tiny stature, observes the events around him, recalls his memories and als | 1965 | Karel Kachyna | Drama, War | 7.6 (258 votes) | 134 | 20220414 |
| Loves Of A Blonde [Lásky jedné plavovlásky]A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since the local boys have been conscripted. The army sends reservists | 1965 | Milos Forman (*) | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 7.6 (8.4K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Marketa LazarovaA 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. | 1967 | Frantisek Vlácil | Drama, History, Romance | 8.0 (5.1K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Martyrs of Love [Mucedníci lásky]A series of loosely connected shorts comprised of three tales representing different aspects of love: temptation, dreams, and adventure. | 1967 | Jan Nemec | Comedy, Fantasy, Music | 6.6 (179 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Miraculous Virgin [Panna zázracnica]A group of artists meets a beautiful and mysterious woman called Anabella, and all of them experience passion, dreams and get inspired by her. | 1967 | Stefan Uher | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (243 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| MorgianaKlara and Viktoria are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klara. When Klara becomes involved with a man that her sister loves, Viktoria begins to plot her murder. | 1972 | Juraj Herz | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.3 (1.2K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Nobody Will Laugh [Nikdo se nebude smát]A bitter-sweet comedy about the problems which come with the avoidance of saying uncomfortable truths. An assistant professor gets lost in his lies as he attempts to postpone writing a negative review of an amateur fine arts essay. | 1965 | Hynek Bocan | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (131 votes) | 94 | 20220315 |
| Nun's Night, The [Noc nevesty]One day of autumn 1950, during the forced collectivization, the farmers lead their cattle into the common stables of the new cooperative. The cooperative's chairman, Picin, publicly calls out the farmers' names. Only one among the fa | 1967 | Karel Kachyna | Drama | 7.2 (134 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| OrganA young Polish deserter and gifted organist finds shelter from the fascists in a Slovak Franciscan monastery. He gets into a conflict with the local organist and choir leader, a man limited in his world views and spiritual values. | 1965 | Stefan Uher | Drama | 6.9 (143 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Pearls of the DeepSet against the backdrop of a repressed Czechoslovakia, five non-related vignettes are presented, each showcasing the need and want for human connection. In "Mr. Baltazar's Death", a middle aged couple who are experts at mechanics, t | 1965 | Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, Jirí Menzel, Jan Nemec, Evald Schorm | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (676 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Report on the Party and Guests, A [O Slavnosti A Hostech]A small group of adult bourgeois friends are on a day outing in the country, that outing which includes having a picnic. While they are going for a walk after the picnic, they encounter a group of officious looking men who commandeer | 1966 | Jan Nemec | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Return of Dragon, The [Drak sa vracia]This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Lepis, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He los | 1968 | Eduard Grecner | Drama | 7.2 (328 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Return of the Prodigal Son [Návrat ztraceného syna]Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made | 1967 | Evald Schorm | Drama | 6.7 (292 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| See You in Hell, Friends [Dovidenia v pekle, priatelia]As a car full of an assortment of characters rolls down an embankment and bursts into flames, the old driver says ""See You in Hell, Friends."" The relations between the characters are shown in flashbacks. The pretty Rita and her fi... | 1990 | Juraj Jakubisko | Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (116 votes) | 73 | 20230728 |
| Seventh Day, the Eighth Night, The [Den sedmý, osmá noc]A bus arrives to the village, carrying a group of traveling actors who begin to perform passion plays from the Bible. Editor Alena (Kveta Fialová), lover of one of the actors, Baritone (Josef Bek), comes to see him. An electricity po | 1969 | Evald Schorm | Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (108 votes) | 103 | 20220414 |
| Shop on Main Street, TheA carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store. | 1965 | Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos | Drama, War | 8.2 (8.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Something Different [O necem jiném]Two stories are simultaneously told. One dutiful mother progressively becomes a frustrated woman who is the only one assuming the family responsibilities of working at home and looking after her only son, whereas her husband works al | 1963 | Vera Chytilová | Drama | 7.0 (662 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Sun in a Net, The [Slnko v sieti]Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandf | 1963 | Stefan Uher | Drama | 7.5 (820 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Valerie and Her Week of Wonders [Valerie a týden divu]Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world, based on a classical Czech novel of the same title. | 1970 | Jaromil Jires | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.2 (9.4K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| When the Cat Comes [Az prijde kocour]Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can colour people, according to their nature and mood. The grown-ups of the village consider the cat to be dangerou | 1963 | Vojtech Jasný | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 7.2 (975 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| White Lady, The [Bílá paní]This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a m | 1965 | Zdenek Podskalský | Comedy, Fantasy | 7.5 (288 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Who Wants to Kill Jessie [Kdo chce zabít Jessii]"What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?" a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, productive workers). There's a problem: after a | 1966 | Václav Vorlícek | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 7.3 (1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Witches' HammerIn the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects. | 1970 | Otakar Vávra | Drama, History, Horror | 7.8 (2.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Witchhammer [Kladivo na carodejnice]In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects. | 1970 | Otakar Vávra | Drama, History, Horror | 7.8 (2.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Bloudenà | 1966 | AntonÃn Mása | Drama | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Soukromá vichrice | 1967 | Hynek Bocan | Comedy | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Obrazy starého sveta | 1972 | Dusan Hanák | Documentary | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |