Movies: Věra Chytilová

  • 1966
    Daisies

    Daisies (1966)

    Daisies

    7.31966HD

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

    Daisies
  • 1952
    The Emperor and the Golem

    The Emperor and the Golem (1952)

    The Emperor and the Golem

    6.91952HD

    The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, wh...

    The Emperor and the Golem
  • 2001
    Expulsion from Paradise

    Expulsion from Paradise (2001)

    Expulsion from Paradise

    4.22001HD

    Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at...

    Expulsion from Paradise
  • 1992
    The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday

    The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992)

    The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday

    6.61992HD

    Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus sets out to tour his new empire, insulting everyone on the way....

    The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday
  • 1987
    Wolf's Hole

    Wolf's Hole (1987)

    Wolf's Hole

    71987HD

    Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors....

    Wolf's Hole
  • 1966
    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep (1966)

    Pearls of the Deep

    5.91966HD

    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 directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ch...

    Pearls of the Deep
  • 1970
    Fruit of Paradise

    Fruit of Paradise (1970)

    Fruit of Paradise

    6.41970HD

    An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence....

    Fruit of Paradise
  • 1962
    Ceiling

    Ceiling (1962)

    Ceiling

    5.11962HD

    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 completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is most...

    Ceiling
  • 1981
    Panelstory or Birth of a Community

    Panelstory or Birth of a Community (1981)

    Panelstory or Birth of a Community

    71981HD

    An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into which he is supposed to be moving with his daughter's family. The old granddad from the countryside likes...

    Panelstory or Birth of a Community
  • 1984
    The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

    The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1984)

    The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

    4.81984HD

    A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who e...

    The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
  • 1963
    Something Different

    Something Different (1963)

    Something Different

    6.31963HD

    In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint. The first follows Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosáková, who contemplates retirement as she undergoes a gruelling ...

    Something Different
  • 2018
    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel (2018)

    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

    6.52018HD

    An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel....

    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
  • 1978
    The Apple Game

    The Apple Game (1978)

    The Apple Game

    5.91978HD

    Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game ...

    The Apple Game
  • 1963
    A Bagful of Fleas

    A Bagful of Fleas (1963)

    A Bagful of Fleas

    61963HD

    The themes of anarchy and individualism that run through Věra Chytilová’s work begin here, in an almost docu-realist look at women finding freedom and joy amid the rigid conformity of life in a communal factory dormitory....

    A Bagful of Fleas
  • 1968
    Seven Days to Remember

    Seven Days to Remember (1968)

    Seven Days to Remember

    71968HD

    The Soviet advance met with fierce, idealistic resistance. We join the hundreds of students as they man barricades constructed from overturned lorries to try to halt the advance. Sparsely armed, they fight fiercely, driven by a belief in their new an...

    Seven Days to Remember
  • 1989
    A Hoof Here, a Hoof There

    A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989)

    A Hoof Here, a Hoof There

    61989HD

    A striking generational tragicomedy, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There is a caustic group portrait of pals who enjoy a tipple, all kinds of hi-jinks and no-strings sexual adventures. Auditor Pepe, vet Dědek and restaurant manager František are financially se...

    A Hoof Here, a Hoof There
  • 1998
    Traps

    Traps (1998)

    Traps

    4.91998HD

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

    Traps
  • 1970
    Pravda

    Pravda (1970)

    Pravda

    5.61970HD

    Filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It's one of the films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov - a Marxist film about the political situation after the '68 revolution....

    Pravda
  • 1982
    Calamity

    Calamity (1982)

    Calamity

    5.51982HD

    Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver....

    Calamity
  • 2016
    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun (2016)

    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

    62016HD

    Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others....

    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun