110 Films & TV Shows Set In Czechia
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When the Cat Comes
π¨πΏ CzechiaSome people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can color people, according to their nature and mood. The grown-ups of the village consider the cat to be dangerous, but the kids just love herβ¦
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Austerlitz
π¦πΉ Austria π¨πΏ Czechia The 1800sThe first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle.
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Higher Principle
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1940sDuring the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
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Melba
π¦πΉ Austria π¨πΏ Czechia π¦πΊ Australia The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sThe story follows the career of Melba from the time she left her father's Australian cattle ranch and a suitor to travel to Paris to get her voice training, and picks up another suitor. She debuts in Brussells and is a smash hit followed by international fame. The suitor from Australia shows up in Monte Carlo, marries her and soon is cast in the role of "Mr. Melba" until he can take it no longer and returns to Australia, while Melba decides her voice belongs to the world and sadly goes on alone.
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Man on a Tightrope
π¨πΏ Czechia π©πͺ Germany The 20th CenturyIt's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE! β Elia Kazan's 1953 film stars Fredric March as the owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia who plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him. The cast also includes Gloria Grahame, Terry Moore, Cameron Mitchell, Richard Boone and Adolphe Menjou.
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The Emperor and the Golem
π¨πΏ Czechia The 16th CenturyThe 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, when he disappears while on a bender, his kindly baker, who looks just like him, is mistaken for him, and begins to put things in order. However, the conspirators, not to be outdone, determine to bring the Golem back to life to do their bidding.
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No Time for Flowers
π¨πΏ CzechiaKisses and Champagne Behind the Iron Curtain! β A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.
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The Blind Goddess
England π¨πΏ CzechiaJustice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
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The Czech Year
π¨πΏ CzechiaThe first full-length puppet film made by Jiri Trnka. Like the painter Ales who illustrated the national songs, Trnka depicts the traditional customs and tales of the Czech village in six separate sequences: Shrovetide, Spring, Legend About St. Prokop, The Fair, The Feast and Bethlehem." A Treasury of Fairy-tales" made Trnka famous all over the world and it is a masterpiece of Czech and world animation.
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Men without Wings
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1940sAfter an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.
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Voice in the Wind
π¨πΏ CzechiaStrange music...strange madness...strange men in a symphony of terror...and of love! β Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.
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Lake Placid Serenade
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1930sGlittering with gay musical scenes! Glistening with brilliant spectacles! Gleaming with romantic gaiety! β On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
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Hangmen Also Die!
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1940sThe shot heard 'round the world! β During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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The Adventures of Tartu
England π¨πΏ Czechia π·π΄ RomaniaStevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory... β British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.
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Hitler's Madman
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1940sStory of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
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Hostages
π¨πΏ CzechiaAfter the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
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The Silent Village
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1940sThe true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
π³π΄ Norway π³π± Netherlands π§πͺ Belgium π«π· France π¦πΉ Austria π¨πΏ Czechia π΅π± PolandGee it's great to be together at last on another fellows honeymoon! β A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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The Golden City
π¨πΏ CzechiaAnna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City". After arriving, she quickly falls into a bad crowd.
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So Ends Our Night
π«π· France π¦πΉ Austria π¨πΏ Czechia π¨π Switzerland The 1930sTwo thrilling Romances in a story of high Adventure! β An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Turbina
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Night Train to Munich
England π¨πΏ Czechia π©πͺ Germany The 1930sLaughs! Thrills! Excitement! β Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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Four Sons
π¨πΏ Czechia The 1930sFour Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
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