13 Best Czech Movies to Watch

A documentary follows a young heroin addict over more than a decade of relapse and recovery attempts.

Directed by Helena Třeštíková · 1h 30m

A retired teacher takes a job as a bottle-return clerk and can't stop meddling in strangers' lives.

Directed by Jan Svěrák · 1h 43m

Two neighbouring families on opposite sides of Communist-era politics clash across one New Year's Eve.

Directed by Jan Hřebejk · 2h 01m

A carpenter appointed 'Aryan controller' of a Jewish shop struggles to protect its elderly owner.

Directed by Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos · 2h 08m

Two young women wage an anarchic, gleefully destructive rebellion against a society that expects them to behave.

Directed by Věra Chytilová · 1h 16m

A childless couple hides a Jewish neighbour while their own household grows more dangerously complicated.

Directed by Jan Hřebejk · 2h 00m

A confirmed bachelor cellist unexpectedly finds himself caring for a young Russian boy after a marriage of convenience.

Directed by Jan Svěrák · 1h 45m

A factory worker's brief romance with a soldier exposes the loneliness underneath a state-run matchmaking scheme.

Directed by Miloš Forman · 1h 21m

A small-town fire brigade's celebration collapses into one bureaucratic disaster after another.

Directed by Miloš Forman · 1h 13m

A young railway apprentice's coming of age unfolds against a quiet act of wartime resistance.

Directed by Jiří Menzel · 1h 33m

Rival medieval clans clash in a brutal, sprawling epic of feuding, faith and abduction.

Directed by František Vláčil · 2h 46m

A mild-mannered crematorium worker's fascination with death curdles into fascist delusion under Nazi occupation.

Directed by Juraj Herz · 1h 41m

A dramatisation of the real manhunt for one of the Czech Republic's most notorious escaped convicts.

Directed by Petr Jákl · 1h 58m