Jiří Macháček

Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he...

Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese...

When Standa is released from jail, he feels a brighter future is about to take hold. Instead, his bad luck grows, thanks to a new acquaintance.

A comedy about a charming con artist who decisively intervenes in the life of a wealthy industrialist and his entire family. Influential businessman...

When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.

The film contains three Jan Werich's fairy tales, each directed by one artist. The first story sets out to the Sumava mountains in Southern Bohemia...

Bittersweet comedy about four teenage boys, their friends, parents, lovers - from the moment when they are 15 to moment when they are 18. Story is...

Inspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe, a romantic cowboy, who takes...

Amidst today’s urban jungle of concrete, glass and metal, it is easy to forget that we actually live in the territory formerly dominated by...

An unusual story about love and laziness. Thalia Award for the title role for I. Trojan. Recording of a performance at the Dejvice Theater in Prague.

A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of...

Charming bon vivant Rudolf is convinced that infidelity is the basis for a happy marriage, since, after all, a woman does not want to be bored with...

Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is...

A well-known writer now aged 75 is aware of his increasing age and the risk that his literary style will grow worn. His everyday existence is...

Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a...

Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First...

When Oskar, a self-centred TV weatherman, cheats on his wife Zuzana with their au pair, she kicks him to the curb and enlists her in-laws in the...

Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants...

A fairy tale full of mystery, love, and heroic battles. A story about the love of Knight Cornelius and comedian Vendelin for a mysterious beauty,...

A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad...

After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.

The story of a married couple who are visited by an old friend.

The series Zubatá nekouše aneb Šestkrát o smrti vážně i nevážně (Death Doesn't Bite, or Six Serious and...

The Empire of Izmer is a divided land: elite magicians called “mages” rule while lowly commoners are powerless. When Empress Savina vows...

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the...

Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there,...

A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.

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

Sisters whose husbands were arrested by the Gestapo struggle to get by with their children during WWII, while one grows close to a selfless doctor.

In 1940s Prague, a former Nazi prisoner returns to run his posh hair salon and struggles with family, the rise of communism and his past.

In the middle of the pasture stands an old oak tree intertwined with a plane tree. Bětka, who grazes sheep, calls it the apple oak. It is her...

A series of performances by the Sklep theater.

A series of theater performances in the basement.

This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and...

The fictional town of Šlukdorf. Here lives a car mechanic who calls himself Bourák. He loves rock and roll, dance, his own gelled hair...

A bitter comedic-drama centering around Tomas, a former promising young director who must cope with a commerce driven world he no longer wants to...

A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With...

A dark and absurd road-movie comedy in which the grandmother fulfills a dream, the mother stops treating her daughters like kids, the daughters stop...

Sad love story about Martin, who is sent to a psychiatric hospital for observation after displays of hooliganism, and Markéta who is...

This is not a love story though it is full of love. It is not a comedy though the characters often say funny things. It is not a detective story even...

The year 1968 came and went, and the world—at least for us—began to change dramatically. Few people expected the change to be so great...

Janez Burger's FAMácké exercise is exceptional in that it is the only comedic or actually parodic work he has ever made. The...

A 12-year-old boy faces bullying due to his weight and decides to take charge of his life by adopting a healthier lifestyle and trying to win the...

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.

In late-1950s Czechoslovakia, a young couple's new love is tested by their parents' expectations and the toll of the Communist regime.

When Oskar, a self-centred TV weatherman, cheats on his wife Zuzana with their au pair, she kicks him to the curb and enlists her in-laws in the...

A 12-year-old boy faces bullying due to his weight and decides to take charge of his life by adopting a healthier lifestyle and trying to win the...