Miroslav Ondříček Movies

Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a...

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated...

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.

Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl...

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return...

A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.

The 11-year old Jakub is living in a children's home, when he is picked up by his father. The father has been "away" for four years, the boys mother...

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world...

Several parties—a prostitute, aging football players, working girls, two men playing pool, and a hedonistic young man—each coalesce in a...

Czechoslovakian crime film

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social...

Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down by a group of old,...

A musician and his girlfriend visit an old musician friend of his and his family.

A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1973 film “O Lucky Man!"

A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with...

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...