Czech New Wave Movies
- 1970
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders71970HD
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...
- 1966
Daisies
Daisies7.31966HD
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
- 1965
Loves of a Blonde
Loves of a Blonde7.0091965HD
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming...
- 1966
Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains7.2671966HD
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity....
- 1967
The Firemen's Ball
The Firemen's Ball7.0491967HD
The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement. There will be music and dancing, a beauty...
- 1969
The Cremator
The Cremator7.7561969HD
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
- 1966
Pearls of the Deep
Pearls of the Deep61966HD
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...
- 2019
Forman vs. Forman
Forman vs. Forman7.8332019HD
A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic...
- 1968
Capricious Summer
Capricious Summer6.5711968HD
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...
- 1963
Something Different
Something Different6.31963HD
In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....
- 1971
If I Had a Gun
If I Had a Gun7.31971HD
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to...
- 1962
Ceiling
Ceiling5.11962HD
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...
- 2018
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel6.52018HD
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...