Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1963, this forgotten gem is one of the most inventive, magical – and subversive – family-friendly […]

Like in a fairy tale, all that the father and son team of Zdeněk and Jan Svěrák touches turns to gold. Following up from hits […]

Pre-dating Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park by nearly 40 years, Karel Zeman’s first feature to synthesise live action with animation is equal parts delightful boys’ own […]

With the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and all that she has been training for, looming large, 18 year old sprinter Anna (Judit Bardós) is […]

This astonishing Expo ’58 Grand Prix winner was steampunk long before the term was coined. Drawing on Facing the Flag (1896) and other Jules Verne […]

Voted in 2000 by Slovak critics as the best Slovak film of all time, Dušan Hanák’s second feature film is an outstanding documentary that was […]

Inspired by Gustave Doré’s engravings in the 1862 edition of Gottfried August Bürger’s book, Karel Zeman’s peerless Munchausen adaptation is a witty and beautiful succession […]

In this ribald biopic-come-cautionary tale, Karel Roden enjoys himself immensely in the role of the unapologetically profligate Jan Saudek (b. 1935), an internationally renowned photographer […]

It is rare indeed that a documentary should prove to be one of the biggest box office hits of the year, yet such was the […]