List of the best Jirí Menzel movies: Closely Watched Trains(1966), Capricious Summer(1968), The Interpreter(2018), Pearls of the Deep(1965), Ferat Vampire(1982), The Snowdrop Festival(1984), My Sweet Little Village(1986), I Served the King of England(2006), Operation Danube(2009), Pearls of the Deep(1965), Closely Watched Trains(1966) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
Czechoslovakia
1966
89 Minutes
Writer
Václav Neckár Jitka Bendová Vladimír Valenta Josef Somr Vlastimil Brodský Jirí Menzel
train conductor apprentice father resistance fighter offbeat cheeky tender czechoslovakia train station small town hotel virginity world war ii resistance attempted suicide growing up sacrifice 1940s
An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
Comedy
Czechoslovakia
1968
75 Minutes
Director
Rudolf Hrusínský Mila Myslikova
retiree major priest wife circus performer assistant amusing heartwarming resort czechoslovakia middle age retirement memory youth traveling performers vacation discovery 1900s
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. ... See full summary »
Drama, Comedy
Slovakia|Czech Republic|Austria
2018
113 Minutes
Ali Ungár
Jirí Menzel Peter Simonischek Zuzana Maurery Attila Mokos Anna Rakovska Eva Kramerová Karol Simon Igor Hrabinský Réka Derzsi Anita Szvrcsek
Ali Ungar discovers in his 80s a book written by an SS soldier describing how he killed his parents back in Slovakia. He decides to take revenge, but when he arrives at the soldier's house he finds his son instead.
Comedy
Czechoslovakia
1965
105 Minutes
Screenwriter
Evald Schorm Jaromil Jires Pavla Marsálková Ferdinand Kruta Alois Vachek Jirí Menzel Emil Iserle Miroslav Nohýnek Vlasta Spánková
Set against the backdrop of a repressed Czechoslovakia, five non-related vignettes are presented, each showcasing the need and want for human connection. In "Mr. Baltazar's Death", a middle... See full summary »
Sci-Fi, Horror
Czechoslovakia
1982
90 Minutes
Dr. Marek
Jirí Menzel Dagmar Havlová Jana Brezková Petr Cepek Jan Schmid Zdenka Prochazkova Vit Olmer Blanka Waleská Zdenek Ornest Ilja Racek Michal Pavlata
A doctor Marek is shocked when his beloved nurse Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor makes him believe ... See full summary »
Comedy
1984
95 Minutes
Director
Rudolf Hrusínský Jaromir Hanzlik Josef Somr Petr Cepek Miloslav Stibich Petr Brukner Rudolf Hrusínský Eugen Jegorov Borík Procházka
Comedy
1986
100 Minutes
Director
Janos Ban Marián Labuda Rudolf Hrusínský Petr Cepek Eugen Jegorov Jan Hartl Libuse Safránková
mentally challenged person laborer truck driver husband friend guardian amusing profound touching czechoslovakia small town prague family home truck mental disability friendship work responsibility relationships dependency
Almost everyone takes advantage of a simple young man (Janos Ban) in a rural village in Czechoslovakia.
Romance, Comedy, War
2006
118 Minutes
Director
Ivan Barnev Oldrich Kaiser Julia Jentsch Martin Huba Marián Labuda Milan Lasica Zuzana Fialova Josef Abrham Jirí Lábus Jaromír Dulava
waiter professor nazi prostitute beautiful woman engaging charming hedonistic prague hotel central europe czechoslovakia money ambition social change world war ii sex fall wretched excess transformation
During World War II an opportunistic Czech waiter (Ivan Barnev) climbs the ladder of success and becomes involved with an idealistic Nazi (Julia Jentsch).
Comedy, Drama
Poland|Czech Republic
2009
104 Minutes
Eva Holubová Jirí Menzel Maciej Stuhr Maciej Nawrocki Bogdan Grzeszczak Przemyslaw Bluszcz Bolek Polivka Jaroslav Dusek Zbigniew Zamachowski Monika Zoubková Martha Issová
Enemies evolve into allies under unusual circumstances.
Comedy
Czechoslovakia
1965
105 Minutes
Screenwriter
Evald Schorm Jaromil Jires Pavla Marsálková Ferdinand Kruta Alois Vachek Jirí Menzel Emil Iserle Miroslav Nohýnek Vlasta Spánková
Set against the backdrop of a repressed Czechoslovakia, five non-related vignettes are presented, each showcasing the need and want for human connection. In "Mr. Baltazar's Death", a middle... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
Czechoslovakia
1966
89 Minutes
Writer
Václav Neckár Jitka Bendová Vladimír Valenta Josef Somr Vlastimil Brodský Jirí Menzel
train conductor apprentice father resistance fighter offbeat cheeky tender czechoslovakia train station small town hotel virginity world war ii resistance attempted suicide growing up sacrifice 1940s
An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.