Jiří Menzel Movies

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been...

Kateřina works at an inn run by her evil stepmother. One day, she meets a young man she doesn't know in the forest. He is Prince Jan, and he is...

The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany.

A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings,...

Prague 1994, hotbed of international profiteers. Here you can still find buyers for discarded everyday objects, here you can still buy cheap houses -...

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via...

Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich...

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

Jirka, Roman, and Ivan have been friends since school. Today they are about 35 and, although they went into different fields, their friendship has...

Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best...

A comedy about a charismatic man who lacks the confidence of his surroundings. However, he was not completely satisfied with the original script and...

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

Jiří Suchý recalls two of the most prominent artistic and creative figures in Czechoslovak culture of the last century:...

By the end of the second World War, three prisoners wish to escape from the train carrying them from one concentration camp to another. To make it...

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed...

A young man studying law finds a place to stay with a young conductor, thinking that he will find an idyllic Lesser Town atmosphere here and will be...