Jan Kraus Movies

The director of films for kids called Bonzurka together with her loyal assistants Drahuska and Honza are looking for the actors for a new movie "The...

Genre: Family

Cast: Iva Janžurová

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimír Dlouhý

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jana Boušková

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jaromír Hanzlík

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karel Roden

Genre: Drama

Cast: Václav Postránecký

Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiří Bartoška

BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser - and the same fate befalls the man...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ludvík Šváb

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Josef Bláha

An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jaromír Hanzlík

A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kryštof Hádek

A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Petra Černocká

A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Petr Čepek

At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jiří Sovák

Genre: History

Cast: Hana Maciuchová

Genre: Drama

Cast: František Němec

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Věra Plívová-Šimková

The Francs with their daughters Olina and Jirina are building a villa in the village of Rezkovice. Father Franc (Vladimír Mensík)...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vladimír Menšík

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jiří Langmajer

Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Radoslav Brzobohatý

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriana Neubauerová

Genre: Drama

Cast: Petr Štěpánek

Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Žaneta Fuchsová

Deputy of cartography enterprise Mr. Ciruvka tries to seduce the colleague's assistant to destabilize his confident in a run for the director's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miloš Kopecký

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ilona Svobodová

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vladimír Menšík

Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988...

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Cast: Jiří Langmajer

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luděk Sobota

It is the summer holiday and little Mísa Horák has taken a few animals from the school's so-called "Corner of Living Nature" home to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Yvetta Hollauerová

A husband asks the best friend to seduce his wife in order to get divorce.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivana Chýlková

The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vladimír Menšík

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jana Brejchová

Twelve-year-old Jana returns from the hospital. She notices some changes at home and is worried that her parents are going to divorce. In reality,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bohumila Houdková

Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensitive eleven-year old Blanka. Fantasy leads the two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin Růžek

Genre: Family

Cast: Maroš Kramár

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miloš Kopecký

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jaroslav Kepka

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Cast: Oldřich Kaiser

The lead character is a young woman who becomes close with a colleague of her husband. She finds herself at an important crossroad in life and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jana Krausová

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Václav Neužil st.

Two kind but foolish sisters live together in their villa in a small town in South Bohemia. Fany (Natasa Gollová) has never married and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nataša Gollová

There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Libuše Šafránková

Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová)...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jaroslava Schallerová

Genre: War

Cast: Karel Hlušička

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miroslav Tomášek

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jiří Klem

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrea Čunderlíková

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ida Rapaičová

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bronislav Križan

Exotic, yet lyrically aimed fairy tale about a young gypsy Pista in search of a beautiful, gentle and faithful bride. An old man told him where to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Milan Kňažko

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otakar Brousek

Friends Petr and Michal, who have known each other since high school, live completely different lives: one has already settled down, has a well-paid...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jiří Mádl

Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jiří Macháček

It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers'...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vladimír Menšík

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimír Šmeral

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský

A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bolek Polívka

This movie is about strange relationships in one "noname" gymnasium in Czech republic.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tomáš Vorel

A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Alois Švehlík

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ondřej Vetchý

When a young journalist dies in violent circumstances, her brother soon learns, by way of the mysterious Stefan Crosscoe, that his sister has...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Christopher Lee

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimír Kratina

Genre: Family

Cast: Martin Pert

Genre: Comedy

Cast: František Němec

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Petr Nárožný

Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Věra Galatíková

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tomáš Vorel

The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although...

Genre: History

Cast: Tilo Prückner

Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ondřej Vetchý

The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Michal Pospíšil

Matej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a glass works where the oldest brother Francek...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Milan Padalík

Czech comedy from the 70ties.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jiří Sovák

Genre: Family

Cast: Jiří Lábus

A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the film, we witness a deep analysis of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiří Schwarz

After a queen's tragic death, the king abandons his newborn daughter in a cave, but a witch saves her. Years later, the tomboy princess must confront...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Alessandra Martines

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jiří Krampol

Genre: Family

Cast: Zdeněk Tůma

A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jiří Menzel

Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they...

Genre: War

Cast: Zdeněk Lstibůrek

A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vladimír Menšík

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lubomír Lipský

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Iva Janžurová

Young Eugene from the provinces travels to Prague in search of fame. Once there he gets an offer to write engagé lyrics for pop songs...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jan Kraus

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eduard Cupák

Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Otto Šimánek

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Petr Nárožný

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eva Jakoubková

Police find a girl with a bleeding face in a small town park at night. First the girl, a textile factory worker Jana, refuses to talk, and then she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milena Steinmasslová

Widowed yeoman Tuma and his household are on their way to help the town of Kourim, which is under attack by the papist troops. His son Ondra is...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Josef Filip

Genre: Family

Cast: Robert Panc

Captain Martin from the police's child department and his colleague Kraus are called to Znojmo to help solve a case regarding stolen toys found in...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jaroslav Vízner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Svatopluk Skopal

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiří Krampol

Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tomáš Sedláček

Genre: Family

Cast: Jan Hrušínský

Every one of us has certainly been in a situation for which he or she is not prepared and is not able to orient him or herself immediately and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josef Abrhám