Jan Oliva Movies
- 1970
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders71970HD
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...
- 1980
Payment in Kind
Payment in Kind5.31980HD
In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...
- 1958
Desire
Desire61958HD
A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the...
- 1987
Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker
Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker6.3461987HD
Pohádka o mladém ševcovském tovaryšovi Jírovi, který si vyrobil z jemné kůže...
- 1978
Zlaté rybky
Zlaté rybky01978HD
Police discover Eva Nejtková dead in her apartment and her husband Zdeněk unconscious from a shotgun wound. Captain Hora leads the...
- 1975
The Motive for Murder
The Motive for Murder3.51975HD
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in...
- 1971
Lucie and the Miracles
Lucie and the Miracles4.71971HD
The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl....
- 1965
Adventures with a Naked Boy
Adventures with a Naked Boy51965HD
A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for...
- 1980
Escape Home
Escape Home61980HD
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.
- 1968
Bohous
Bohous8.31968HD
Alois, manager of a remote mountain inn, loses his maid when she can’t stand his oversized Saint Bernard, Bohouš. When a ravenous guest...
- 1981
Run, Waiter, Run!
Run, Waiter, Run!7.11981HD
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...
- 1977
The Island of the Silver Herons
The Island of the Silver Herons51977HD
The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....
- 2007
Golden Eels
Golden Eels6.62007HD
A little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. There, the boy became friends with a...
- 1985
Dva kluci v palbě
Dva kluci v palbě01985HD
In the spring of 1945, the last war clashes took place on the Czech-Moravian border. However, amidst the heavy gunfire, colourful boyhood adventures...
- 1976
Plavení hříbat
Plavení hříbat01976HD
The holidays of Vince Adamek, a student of the agricultural school in his native village in South Moravia, are purely working. He likes his job as a...
- 1981
Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci
Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci31981HD
A crazy comedy, turning into a grotesque with a number of absurd elements, tells the tangled story of the over-the-top siblings Zuzana and Petr,...
- 1966
The Murderer Hides His Face
The Murderer Hides His Face6.11966HD
In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died...
- 1973
Rodeo
Rodeo01973HD
- 1982
Attention, Rounds!
Attention, Rounds!6.81982HD
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.
- 1965
Svatba s podmínkou
Svatba s podmínkou01965HD
The graduate of the pedagogical institute wants to get married at any cost in order to get a permanent residence in Prague. Her accidental partner...