The Zookeeper (2001)

Director: Ralph Ziman

Starring: Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen, Om Puri, Javor Loznica

Sam Neill gives a haunting performance as Jonah Ludovic, the last zookeeper in an Eastern European city ravished by civil war. With the streets owned... Read more

Little Otik (2000)

Director: Jan Svankmajer

Starring: Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerova, Veronika Zilkova

Jan Svankmajer's darkly comic film, based on a Czech fairy tale, tells the story of a barren couple whose inability to conceive a child drives them to... Read more

Divided We Fall (2000)

Director: Jan Hrebejk

Starring: Boleslav Polivka, Anna Siskova

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this stark but sometimes humourous effort is set in a Czech town during World War II where the... Read more

Closely Watched Trains ( aka Closely Observed Trains ) (1966)

Director: Jiri Menzel

Starring: Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta

An ironic, funny film about a young man on his first job in a small town railroad station, trying to get sexually initiated (in hilarious scenes) who,... Read more

The Firemen's Ball (1967)

Director: Milos Forman

Starring: Vaclav Stockel, Josef Svet, Josef Kolb

A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman's first colour film "The Firemen's Ball" is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire.... Read more

Faust (1994)

Director: Jan Svankmajer

Starring: Petr Cepek, Andrew Sachs

Jan Svankmajer's follow-up to his acclaimed 'Alice' is an equally bizarre version of the myth of Dr. Faustus. Combining live action with stop-motion a... Read more

Kolya (1996)

Director: Jan Sverak

Starring: Zdenek Sverak, Andrej Chalimon, Libuse Safrankova

This warm and witty seriocomedy follows a down-and-out cellist and confirmed bachelor who agrees to a marriage of convenience with a friend's beautifu... Read more

Nazi Medicine / The Cross and The Star (1992)

Director: John J Michalczyk

Two riveting documentaries by director John J. Michalczyk, which confront the horror of Hitler's Third Reich. "Nazi Medicine" studies the step by step... Read more

Voyage to the End of the Universe / Project Moon Base (1953)

Director: Richard Talmadge, Jindrich Polak

Starring: Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke, Ross Ford, Larry Johns, Radovan Lukavsky, Zdenek St...

Sci-fi double feature. 'Voyage to the End of the Universe' (1963) - A.k.a. 'Ikarie XB 1'. In the 25th century, a space crew aboard a research ship are... Read more