Věra Chytilová Movies

  • 1966
    Daisies

    Daisies

    Daisies

    7.31966HD

    Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

    Daisies
  • 1952
    The Emperor and the Golem

    The Emperor and the Golem

    The Emperor and the Golem

    6.91952HD

    The 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 Emperor and the Golem
  • 2001
    Expulsion from Paradise

    Expulsion from Paradise

    Expulsion from Paradise

    4.22001HD

    Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is...

    Expulsion from Paradise
  • 1992
    The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday

    The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday

    The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday

    6.61992HD

    Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus...

    The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday
  • 1987
    Wolf's Hole

    Wolf's Hole

    Wolf's Hole

    71987HD

    Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another...

    Wolf's Hole
  • 1966
    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    5.9641966HD

    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...

    Pearls of the Deep
  • 1970
    Fruit of Paradise

    Fruit of Paradise

    Fruit of Paradise

    6.41970HD

    An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.

    Fruit of Paradise
  • 1962
    Ceiling

    Ceiling

    Ceiling

    5.11962HD

    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...

    Ceiling
  • 1981
    Panelstory or Birth of a Community

    Panelstory or Birth of a Community

    Panelstory or Birth of a Community

    71981HD

    An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...

    Panelstory or Birth of a Community
  • 1984
    The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

    The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

    The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

    4.81984HD

    A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's...

    The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
  • 1963
    Something Different

    Something Different

    Something Different

    6.31963HD

    In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

    Something Different
  • 2018
    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

    6.52018HD

    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...

    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
  • 1978
    The Apple Game

    The Apple Game

    The Apple Game

    5.91978HD

    Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to...

    The Apple Game
  • 1963
    A Bagful of Fleas

    A Bagful of Fleas

    A Bagful of Fleas

    61963HD

    The themes of anarchy and individualism that run through Věra Chytilová’s work begin here, in an almost docu-realist look at women...

    A Bagful of Fleas
  • 1968
    Seven Days to Remember

    Seven Days to Remember

    Seven Days to Remember

    71968HD

    The Soviet advance met with fierce, idealistic resistance. We join the hundreds of students as they man barricades constructed from overturned...

    Seven Days to Remember
  • 1989
    A Hoof Here, a Hoof There

    A Hoof Here, a Hoof There

    A Hoof Here, a Hoof There

    61989HD

    A striking generational tragicomedy, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There is a caustic group portrait of pals who enjoy a tipple, all kinds of hi-jinks and...

    A Hoof Here, a Hoof There
  • 1998
    Traps

    Traps

    Traps

    4.91998HD

    After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.

    Traps
  • 1970
    Pravda

    Pravda

    Pravda

    5.61970HD

    Filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It's one of the films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov - a Marxist film about the political...

    Pravda
  • 1982
    Calamity

    Calamity

    Calamity

    5.51982HD

    Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.

    Calamity
  • 2016
    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

    62016HD

    Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica,...

    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun