Josef Somr

A young man follows his father's footsteps and joins the railway company, where he learns the job and has his first affair... (imdb)

In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students... (imdb)

With the war over, Pankrac, Servac, and Bimbac (named after the three "ice saints", whose days fall in succession around the period of the first frosts) are left to enjoy an impoverished retirement. Roughing it in a wood one night, the three all wake up at separate times from each other. Once roused, they each meet one of three dwarves on their way to the nose tree to meet up with each other... (ce-review.org)

After his father marries a teenage bride, 12-year-old Ondrej is banished from the household and sent to live and study with a strict religious order. It isn't long before the boy begins to reflect on existential matters and question his fundamental set of beliefs. Exploring the nature of faith and doubt, Czechoslovakian director Frantisek Vlacil's poetic rumination set during the Middle Ages packs a dramatic wallop. (Netflix)

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed. (imdb)

It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. (imdb)

The story of the widow of a former landowner who was stripped of all his belongings. The man himself has died, but his widow is determined that somehow she will manage to get him buried in the family crypt, despite opposition from party officials. However, her activities served to remind people of their old values, and they are roused to protest against the government. (allmovie.com)

A study of the Czech poet Karel Hynek Mácha.

Two dwarfs - one bright blue and the other bright red - get into a fight, and each calls in a similarly colored giant to fight their battle. (imdb)

Twelve-year-old Alena has had to leave the countryside on a blazing hot summer day and come back home to a block of flats on the outskirts of Prague. She spends most of the day on her own, amusing herself daydreaming and imagining, on the blazing hot building roof awaiting the rain. Her mother is at work all day and her friends are still away on holidays. Alena is keen on the actor Budil and puts on her best clothes for him each day, running out onto the street carrying her mother's handbag. (imdb)

Two scientists use their inherited fortune differently. One designs a beautiful town called Fortuna, while the second builds huge factories to make munitions known as Steel City. (imdb)

a Czech film by director Vladimír Michálek based on the novel of the same name by Emil Hakl.