Autumn Spring (2002), The Firemen's Ball (1967), Divided We Fall (2000), The Shop on Main Street (1965), I Served the King of England (2006), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000), Closely Watched Trains (1966) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Czechoslovakia movies.
Storyline: Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...—David Carless
Plot Keywords: retiree, major, priest, wife, circus performer, assistant, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the end of a very bad day when he realizes his life has gone and is going nowhere, John Winger is able to convince his best friend, Russell Ziskey, whose life is not much better, to enlist in the army, despite they not being obvious soldier material. In basic training, they are only two of a bunch of misfits that comprise their platoon. However, it is still John that is constantly butting heads with their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. Two of their saving graces are Stella and Louise, two MPs who get them out of one scrape after another. Their entire platoon is in jeopardy of not graduating. But what happens during basic leads to their entire platoon being assigned to an overseas mission in Italy, to test a new urban assault vehicle, the EM-50 project. John and Russell decide to take the EM-50 for an unauthorized test drive to visit Stella and Louise who have been reassigned to West Germany. In the process, the rest of the platoon, Hulka, and Hulka's immediate superior, ...
Plot Keywords: slacker, army recruit, best friend, sergeant, officer, amusing, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Clementi Suborin is found murdered, his secretary recounts to the police the story of his rise from Czech refugee to ultra-rich New Yorker. The tale of betrayal, womanising and fraud confirms that almost everyone who knew him wanted him dead.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: murder victim, social climber, thief, lover, secretary, brother, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A skeptical Bishop sends a broken priest as Postulator to investigate the possible beatification of a simple, devout woman whose death caused a statue of the Virgin Mary to bleed upon and cure a girl with terminal lupus. The politically weary priest unknowingly embarks on a spiritual journey that rebuilds his shattered faith and life.—Jim Norman <jnorman1@qwest.net>
Plot Keywords: priest, bishop, daughter, atheist, intense, moving, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Seven-year-old Marushka (Florence Hoath) grows up in Prague, Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, raised more by her relatives than her zealous, society-building mother.—Czech film center
Plot Keywords: young girl, mother, uncle, grandmother, grandfather, disheartening, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Xander "XXX" Cage is a thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons forces XXX to cooperate with the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring, and avoid going to prison. Gibbons sends XXX to enter this world of crime undetected where others have failed, using his natural athletic prowess and a whole lot of attitude. Xander must combat an organization led by a clever, ruthless and nihilistic Yorgi whose first target is the city of Prague.
Plot Keywords: athlete, agent, spy, terrorist, girlfriend, drug czar, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, government minister Artur London (Yves Montand), a war veteran who has long been a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with wife, Lise (Simone Signoret). However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. He has no idea what his offense is, but agents for the totalitarian regime interrogate and torture him, aiming to use their unending power to gain a false confession for supposed crimes against the state.
Plot Keywords: government official, special agent, wife, secret police, dark, tense, disheartening ...
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