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Plot Summary:
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, alternative comedy, campy, cult film
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Visitors from the Galaxy (1981)
Plot Summary:
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Croatia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, dark fantasy, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, supernatural thriller, weird, alternative comedy, urban fantasy, campy
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The Borrowed Face (1965)
Plot Summary:
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, dark comedy, poliziottesco, campy
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The Great Movie Robbery (1986)
Plot Summary:
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaiser and Jirí Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki - a super holograph, which enables any figure from television to be transported in the flesh into the real world, and vice-versa.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, metafiction, parody, campy
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The Flying Saucers Over Velky Malikov City (1977)
Plot Summary:
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, campy
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Miss Golem (1972)
Plot Summary:
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to her rescue when she tries to flee from two men wanting to take her away. Věra confesses that she has fled from home because her father, a factory owner, wanted to profitably marry her off. Petr is fascinated by the emancipated woman and shows her round his laboratory, where he plans to create a robot of his own - but one that would be far more advanced. Věra cuts herself on a broken test-tube and a drop of her blood gets in the solution. In the morning, they are taken aback to see Věra's double. This lucky chance has helped Petr create an artificial being, Miss Golem. She has a single motive for her actions: to take care of Věra and allow her to do only what is good for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: intellectual, crying, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy, neo screwball comedy, campy
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Do We Match Each Other, Darling? (1975)
Plot Summary:
Czech comedy from the 70ties.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Men about Town (1969)
Plot Summary:
Trojice venkovských fasádníků pracuje na montáži při obnově pražské zástavby. A když už se dostali do hlavního města, rozhodnou se, že by neškodilo si tady pořádně užít a vyhodit z kopýtka. Aby nedělali ostudu, nechají si dokonce dát "lekce" společenského chování a bontonu, přičemž svého školitele, jímž není nikdo jiný než Oldřich Nový, málem nechtěně zdeptají. Zkušená a podnikavá obyvatelka jednoho z jimi opravovaných domů jim pak připraví opravdu nečekané a silné zážitky.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The End of Agent W4C (1967)
Plot Summary:
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, fast paced, absurd, psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, eurospy, campy
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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
Plot Summary:
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot. The plot goes wrong when they lose the bomb and land near Hitler's bunker in 1941, at a time that the Nazis sense victory. Bures, with two of the plotters, escape capture by the Nazis and make it back to the time machine. Bures programs the machine to return one day before they left, because he figures he can then save his brother and foil the plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, humorous, tense, sentimental, feel good, captivating, melancholic, political thriller, absurd
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Devilish Honeymoon (1970)
Plot Summary:
Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at the dawn of normalization has intentionally broke off from any connection to the reality of its time. The director Zdeněk Podskalský has focused on creating intriguing story lines, revolving around the two endeavouring female characters who are fighting for the same man. Two competing parties are not only ready to kill the other, but also (if necessary) the potential groom. This film has enabled the members of the cast, composed mainly of the brightest stars of the Czech acting scene of that time, to show an incredible acting range, from the lightest comedy to the darkest cynical morbidity.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, detective, black comedy, dark comedy, poliziottesco, campy, cult film
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Terminal City Ricochet (1990)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Terminal City, a decaying world where the citizens wallow amidst a mind-boggling profusion of discarded consumer goods; a ruthless world where television is exploited to its fullest to sell yet more needless junk to eager consumers; a bewildering land where the unreal is real and the real, unreal. Alex Stevens is hurled into this bedlam where he finds himself pitted against the maniacal Ross Gilmore, Mayor of Terminal City, and the evil Bruce Coddle, agent of Gilmore's Social Peace Enforcement Unit.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: political, underground film, independent film, black comedy, cult film
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Straw Hat (1972)
Plot Summary:
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 wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, psychedelic, psychotronic, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, poliziottesco, metafiction
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Grandmothers Recharge Well! (1984)
Plot Summary:
A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums start to "terorize" their families because they were set up to ensure the mums exercise, the kids study etc. Apart from that they start causing problems to the other family ... cut ropes with hanging clothes, pierced tires, etc. Once they get to killing each other family's pets the parents get really worried about the safety of their kids. The grannys later destroy each other while fighting and the families decide that they'll be better off without any robots. (It's some time since I saw this so the details may be off.) Mainly thanks to the design of the robots it's rather a comedy than a horror. Unless you are ten. And a rather good comedy!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, black comedy, freeze frame, alternative comedy, campy
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Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
Plot Summary:
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: absurd, cult classic, slapstick, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction, alternative comedy, campy, comic, cult film
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
Plot Summary:
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 meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black comedy, apocalyptic, parody, psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, costume drama, alternative comedy, period drama
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Plot Summary:
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
Plot Summary:
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, surreal, absurd, spoof, black comedy, experimental, slapstick comedy, slapstick, double entendre
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Dinner for Adele (1978)
Plot Summary:
When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, surreal, detective, ambiguous ending, crying, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Rumburak (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wizarding criminal Rumburak, exiled to the Mortal Realm, uses a supercomputer to recreate his lost spell formulas. His software falls into the hands of humans, chaos ensues, and Rumburak suddenly finds himself on the side of good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, urban fantasy
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Six Bears and a Clown (1972)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, campy
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Happy End (1967)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: experimental, black comedy, absurd, dark fantasy, avant garde, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, metafiction, alternative comedy
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Zombie for Sale (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a pharmaceutical company's illegal experiments inadvertently create a zombie, the strange Park family finds it and tries to profit from it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, psychotronic, scary, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, horror comedy, dark fantasy
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Waiter, Scarper! (1981)
Plot Summary:
It is the story of a man who had financial troubles. He was married several times and had to pay for several kids. He wanted to earn some extra money by playing in a cafe. But one drunken guest supposes he is a waiter and pays his bill to him. So the main hero finds his chance - he goes through restaurants, pretending that he is a waiter and asks people to hand their cash to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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iGirlfriend (2016)
Plot Summary:
A teen comedy about a nerdy teenager who creates an iPhone app to be his girlfriend. When she miraculously comes to life, things go hilariously wrong, and she tries to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychotronic, light, cyber, crying, teen comedy
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The Night Before (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Night Before is a 1988 film starring Keanu Reeves and Lori Loughlin. Reeves plays Winston Connelly, the so-called high school nerd and vice president of the Astronomy club. Loughlin plays Tara Mitchell, the pretty and popular head cheerleader who also happens to be the local police chief's daughter. The Tagline was: "You lost your father's car. Sold your prom date. And a guy named 'Tito' wants you dead." It was filmed and set entirely in Los Angeles, California.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, independent film, teen comedy
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Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune capital of the world. Is it any wonder that he wants to go to Saudi Arabaia for college and leave Sunnyvale far, far behind? He spends his days at school with his sex-obsessed best friend Dan Forrester and lusts after Lisa Winston, the sexy lounge singer who his parents have hired to perform at the Holiday Inn. Stuck without a date for his brother's wedding to a senator's daughter, Ryan goes to a computer dating service, which asks him such questions as "Can you breathe foreign substances?" Soon, Ryan is told that he may be an alien stuck on Earth along with thousands of others. Soon, Charles and Edna Pinsky show up and tell him that he may an alien prince meant to lead his brethren home. And that's when things get out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
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I Wake Up Yesterday (2012)
Plot Summary:
Czech teacher Peter experiences journey into the past to late 80´s to recover his true love Eliška. At present he´s nothing but relationship´s loser so he tries to find his true love at least at the past. During his journey he passes not just through relationship´s problem but thanks to his radical opinions also encounters problems with communists, even if he knows already from the future that totalitarian regime won´t last forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, teen comedy
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The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dívka na koštěti or The Girl on the Broomstick is a 1972 Czechoslovak fantasy-comedy film directed by Václav Vorlíček. It tells a story of a teenage witch, Saxana (played by Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, who finds herself in a modern world. A sequel was released in 2011 - Saxána a Lexikon Kouzel.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction, urban fantasy, neo screwball comedy, teen comedy, campy, cult film
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Sleeper (1973)
Plot Summary:
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, slapstick, funny, cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, psychotronic