Jan Oliva Movies

  • 1970
    Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    6.961970HD

    Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

    Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
  • 1981
    Run, Waiter, Run!

    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...

    Run, Waiter, Run!
  • 1973
    Rodeo

    Rodeo

    Rodeo

    01973HD

    Rodeo
  • 1980
    Escape Home

    Escape Home

    Escape Home

    61980HD

    A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

    Escape Home
  • 1966
    The Murderer Hides His Face

    The Murderer Hides His Face

    The Murderer Hides His Face

    6.11966HD

    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...

    The Murderer Hides His Face
  • 1971
    Lucie and the Miracles

    Lucie and the Miracles

    Lucie and the Miracles

    4.71971HD

    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....

    Lucie and the Miracles
  • 1968
    Bohous

    Bohous

    Bohous

    8.31968HD

    Alois, manager of a remote mountain inn, loses his maid when she can’t stand his oversized Saint Bernard, Bohouš. When a ravenous guest...

    Bohous
  • 1965
    Courage for Every Day

    Courage for Every Day

    Courage for Every Day

    5.91965HD

    A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

    Courage for Every Day
  • 1985
    Holka na krátkou trať

    Holka na krátkou trať

    Holka na krátkou trať

    01985HD

    Sometimes it's hard to understand what's important in life... The main character of the story, young Magda, works in a small textile factory in North...

    Holka na krátkou trať
  • 1981
    Blob to the Fairytale

    Blob to the Fairytale

    Blob to the Fairytale

    51981HD

    Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the...

    Blob to the Fairytale
  • 1977
    Smoke on the Potato Fields

    Smoke on the Potato Fields

    Smoke on the Potato Fields

    6.61977HD

    In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a...

    Smoke on the Potato Fields
  • 2007
    Golden Eels

    Golden Eels

    Golden Eels

    6.62007HD

    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...

    Golden Eels
  • 1965
    Adventures with a Naked Boy

    Adventures with a Naked Boy

    Adventures with a Naked Boy

    51965HD

    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...

    Adventures with a Naked Boy
  • 1975
    The Motive for Murder

    The Motive for Murder

    The Motive for Murder

    3.51975HD

    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...

    The Motive for Murder
  • 1980
    Payment in Kind

    Payment in Kind

    Payment in Kind

    5.31980HD

    In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

    Payment in Kind
  • 1987
    Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker

    Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker

    Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker

    6.3461987HD

    Pohádka o mladém ševcovském tovaryšovi Jírovi, který si vyrobil z jemné kůže...

    Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker
  • 1978
    Proč nevěřit na zázraky

    Proč nevěřit na zázraky

    Proč nevěřit na zázraky

    01978HD

    Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences...

    Proč nevěřit na zázraky
  • 1982
    Attention, Rounds!

    Attention, Rounds!

    Attention, Rounds!

    6.81982HD

    A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

    Attention, Rounds!
  • 1978
    Nechci nic slyšet

    Nechci nic slyšet

    Nechci nic slyšet

    5.51978HD

    An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student...

    Nechci nic slyšet
  • 1972
    And Give My Love to the Swallows

    And Give My Love to the Swallows

    And Give My Love to the Swallows

    4.71972HD

    This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...

    And Give My Love to the Swallows