Foreign

Czech drama from director Frantisek Vlácil. Set in 16th century Bohemia, a miller and his son find themselves at the centre of an investigation after they are suspected of working with the Devil. The cast includes Vitezslav Vejrazka, Miroslav Machacek,...

Perhaps best known for being 'banned forever' in its native Czech Republic, Jan Nemec's experimental film is a surreal, creepy allegory about the cause and effects of power and conformity. A group of happy, carefree picnickers are accosted by a group of...

Karel Zeman co-writes and directs this fantasy adventure starring Milos Kopecky as eccentric adventurer Baron Munchausen. After coming across young astronaut Tonik (Rudolf Jelínek) on the moon, the Baron decides to take him back to Earth to meet a...

Karel Kachyna writes and directs this Czech drama starring Radoslav Brzobohaty and Jirina Bohdalova as husband and wife Ludvik and Anna. Ludvik, a senior official of Prague's Communist regime, returns home with his wife after a dinner party to find that...

Second Run presents a selection of essential works by Polish filmmaker and iconoclast Jerzy Skolimowski, one of international cinema's most prolific and celebrated filmmakers. This special edition box set contains three features - Walkover (1965),...

With delirious visuals conjured by cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera (Daisies, Diamonds of the Night) and often described as 'the last film of the Czechoslovak New Wave', Juraj Herz's delirious tale of terror is a surreal phantasmagoria of dark desires and...

Eduard Grecner writes and directs this Slovakian drama. Set during medieval times, reclusive potter Martin Lepis (Radovan Lukavsky), who the villagers refer to as Dragon, returns to the mountain community that ousted him years before for a crime he...

Classic Hungarian drama directed by Károly Makk. Luca (Mari Töröcsik)'s husband has been arrested by the secret police. As she cares for his sick mother (Lili Darvas), she can't bear to tell her the truth, and so she weaves a story that he is in...

Czech filmmaker Jiri Menzel directs this comedy drama set in a labour camp in 1950s Communist-run Prague. The film tells the stories of the various characters interned in the labour camp-cum-scrapyard, who have been deemed counter-revolutionary and...

Karel Kachyna directs this Czech thriller starring Iva Janzurová.

Vera Chytilová writes and directs this surrealist Czech comedy centred around the lives of two teenage girls known as Marie I and Marie II (Jitka Cerhova and Ivana Karbanova). When the girls come to the conclusion that since the world is bad they should...

Milos Forman directs this Czech drama starring Hana Brejchova as factory manager Andula. With a desire to boost the morale of her young female workers, Andula persuades the army to send some men to the rural location of her factory which has remained...