Jiří Menzel Movies

A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high time? Father Ubaldo has worries; his two daughters...

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the...

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is...

A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a...

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a...

A recording of the final performance of the famous production of G. Feydeau's comedy, directed by Jiří Menzel, which was successfully...

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...

The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

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

Ivan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town - a typical Middle - European small town in Northern of Croatia....

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

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

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 teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.