Jiří Hálek Movies

Several of the works of writer Bohumil Říha have been filmed. This novel by the pro-regime writer also inspired a children’s film, which was directed...

A story of two boys who during the summer at a recreation area become best friends despite being enemies at first.

Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are in the principal's office after the trouble with t...

​Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to...

A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the d...

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz),the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic c...

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter wh...

Comedy based on short Sean O'Casey play. John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which his pious conscience cannot cope. He has spent a nig...

A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.

This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit...

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a weal...

Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by...

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 p...