Jaromil Jireš Movies

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.

In a mountain village in eastern Moravia, J. D., a well-behaved and hard-working young man, his parents' only hope, mysteriously disappeared from...

An interesting look at love destroyed by the demon of drugs, which uses opera singing instead of spoken word. A story about the relationship of two...

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces.

An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two...

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.

A film about filmmaking.

The peculiar Fanoš Mikulecký is the originator of many well-known songs from Podluží, generally considered folk songs. Next...

A gloomy tale about a king whose pride robbed him of love, friends and power. A cruel curse is at the beginning of the story of this fairy tale based...

It is the depths of winter and in the middle of a desolate landscape on a snowy slope stands a log cabin, inhabited by an old man. The man puts his...

A television reporter visits the clerk, Mr Drobny, who answers dating ads and makes appointments with many women.

A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world.

A meeting between the famous post-war safecracker Arnošt Šimerda and "his" inspector František Nový, who put him behind...