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Plot Summary:
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: absurd, folk tale, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, alternative comedy, urban fantasy
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Daisies for the Lady of the Manor (1981)
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Fifteen-year-old Kateřina will once again spend the holidays at the Castle Krabonoš, where her parents are both wardens. She finds it dull because she's got to sit at the castle's ticket office and sell tickets. That is, until the arrival of the new tour guide, Petr, a young history student. She falls in love at first sight. But for Petr she's just a young crazy girl. Katka tries to get Petr's attention in various ways, but all in vain. She makes a last ditch effort by pretending to steal some rare castle steins from the castle's collection. It's only after some detectives arrive that Katka realizes that she may have overdone it, but she finally manages to get Petr to notice her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: crying, teen comedy
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The End of Agent W4C (1967)
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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)
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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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Brother for All the Money (1979)
Plot Summary:
Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an amateur competitor to the motor-cycles at the speedway. Zuzana is not interested in motor-cycles. Martin holds responsible for his brother's marriage and at the advice of his friend Magda, who is of the same age, invites her sister-in-law to the club of Hucul horses so that she does not feel bored. But by misfortunes and unexplained quarrels both young husband and wife start being jealous of one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
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Little Baby Jesus (2013)
Plot Summary:
Charming 60-something José returns to Prague after 30 years living in Mexico, though he was convinced that he would never see his hometown again. He was persuaded by his deeply religious Mexican wife Dolores, who is convinced that only a miracle that might be fulfilled by Prague’s famous Infant Jesus can help their daughter Penelopé get pregnant. And the ideal time for this is Christmas. And when Ruda, his friend from Prague, also insists, José agrees to return to the places he used to know and to the memories that they bring back – including his former Prague love. And it becomes evident that the Infant Jesus is not the only one capable of making miracles come true in Prague. Penelopé’s longed-for conception is definitely not the only one….
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Mexico, Slovakia
Duration: 82 min
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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)
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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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It's Not Me (1986)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Up Your Teddy Bear (1970)
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Clyde King, a toy store employee whose hobbies include making wooden toys and stalking women, is coveted by the female owner of one of the biggest toy companies in the world. She is enchanted by King's hand-carved toys, and she delegates the recruitment of the toy-maker to her second-in-command, Lyle "Skippy" Burns. However, King will not join her company as she reminds him of his mother. She becomes the subject of bizarre fantasies in which "Mother," the toy company owner as imagined by King, brow-beats and humiliates him. Discovering King's predeliction for leaving the toy store to stalk women, Skippy first tries to entice Clyde into signing an employemnt contract by supplying him with women, even going as far to dress himself up in drag as a prostitute. But every time he sets King up with a woman, the encounter ends disastrously, so Skippy finally decides to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, absurd, sex comedy, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, freeze frame, dark comedy, campy
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Bestiarium (2007)
Plot Summary:
Bestiar is the story of the fateful relationship Karolina - a political science major and a journalist - has with Alex, who, despite being extremely successful in his career, is actually emotionally torn inside. Each new relationship and experience (no matter how fleeting) has a profound impact on Karolína, who realizes that although women aren't born beasts, they can become them. But without innate bestial instincts it's futile! Bestiar is a tragicomic tale of the personal quest of a woman attempting to find the right values in a labyrinth of interpersonal relationships. Until now, that luxury - "experiencing the world" - has been granted mostly only to male characters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, captivating, emotional, sentimental, light, tragicomedy, realistic, semi serious
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You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
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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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May Who? (2015)
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Pong is a high-school geek who belongs to a group of high school outcasts known as the “Invisibles”, and enjoys letting his imagination run wild by drawing cartoons. May-Who is also one of the “Invisibles” and has an extraordinary secret: an ability to discharge electricity like a Tesla coil. Whenever her heart beats faster than 120 beats per minute her body releases a powerful electricity charge. Pong accidentally learns about this and promises to keep it a secret in exchange for helping each other win over their own high-school crushes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, sincere, romantic, hilarious, crying, psychotronic, romantic comedy, urban fantasy
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All or Nothing (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three best friends - Linda, Vanda and Edo - get all tangled by four attractive men.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, witty, crying, queer cinema
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Rumburak (1985)
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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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A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
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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Ants in the Pants (2000)
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Flo is not quite a normal teenager: While all his friends only think about sex he can't even pronounce the word "S - E - X". But everything changes completely when one morning Flo wakes up from a strange call. His penis, excited for the first time, begins to talk to him. He claims that Flo severely neglected him for 15 years and it's time to release him.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: entertaining, teen sex comedy, humorous, sexy, sex comedy, crying, freeze frame, not serious, absurd, modern day adaptation
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Bedazzled (1967)
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Stanley is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him. He meets George Spiggott AKA the devil and sells his soul for 7 wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: witty, funny, surreal, dark comedy, humorous, psychedelic, intellectual, psychotronic, mind bending, satanic
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The Spooks (2016)
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, crying, freeze frame, spooky, urban fantasy
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Spellbound (2011)
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A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally and develops a feeling towards her despite her own problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: romantic, semi serious, stylized, captivating, touching, romantic comedy, horror comedy, cult classic, offbeat, crying
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The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
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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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Bad Johnson (2014)
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Women are practically throwing themselves at Rich and he can’t seem to control himself. But he continually blames his penis, which seems to have a mind of its own. After ruining yet another promising relationship with Jamie, Rich has finally had enough and wishes his penis would just leave him alone. The next morning, Rich wakes up to find his wish has come true and his johnson is no longer on his body. Even worse, Rich is shocked to discover that his penis has taken human form.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, independent film, sexy, light, absurd, teen, happy, action adventure, offbeat
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What Men Want (2018)
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The charismatic and self-confident man, Karel Král, is the editor-in-chief of men's magazine. Although a chauvinistic type, he is very popular with women. However, he struggles in his personal life. He frequently argues with his ex-wife over their 17 year-old daughter Julie, who despises his new way of life. Then the consequences of his behavior catch up with him. He loses his job, and the editor-in-chief position is given to a young and beautiful woman. But his bad luck does not end there. After another fight with his ex-wife and daughter, and a woman driver crashing into his car, Karel and his best friend Cestmír have an evening of binge drinking. During the wild night, he expresses a wish to be a woman. When he wakes up the next morning he discovers that his wish has been granted.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, crying, psychotronic, urban fantasy
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The Salt Prince (1983)
Plot Summary:
A fairy-tale about the power of love. The old king Pravoslav feels it is time to entrust the rule over his kingdom to one of his three daughters - the one that loves him the most. The youngest, Maruška, fails her father's expectations about proving how deep her love him is. He misunderstands her and she is made to leave the castle. She faces many dangers on the way to her loved one, the Salt Prince.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Prince and the Evening Star (1979)
Plot Summary:
A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young Prince Velen , who is left in charge of the castle and his three sisters. During the night he has a visitation and before he knows it, all his sisters are married off and gone away, and himself falls in love with beautiful Večernice.Now he is faced with the King's wraths and charged with a quest. The journey, however, hides obstacles and danger; not only treacherous merchants and robbers, but also a evil wizard Mrakomor.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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All of Me (1984)
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Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, clever, talky, entertaining, cult classic, witty, semi serious, humorous
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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of quick-witted teen Mark, contentedly living the same day in an endless loop whose world is turned upside-down when he meets mysterious Margaret also stuck in the time loop. Mark and Margaret form a magnetic partnership, setting out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect. What follows is a love story with a fantastical twist, as the two struggle to figure out how -- and whether -- to escape their never-ending day.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, psychological, tense, sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, romantic
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Splash (1984)
Plot Summary:
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, fairy tale, touching, romantic, funny, romantic comedy, sweet, light, entertaining
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Mannequin (1987)
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Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian under an ancient spell. Despite interference from the store's devious manager, Jonathan and his mannequin fall in love while creating eye-catching window displays to keep the struggling store in business.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, cult classic, teen, romantic comedy, retro, family comedy, colorful, touching, feel good
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Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
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The film stars Libuse Safrankova as the title character, a young woman who is put upon by her stepmother and stepsisters. The film employs a twist, though, when a handsome prince comes knocking. Cinderella does not simply fall into the prince's arms. In this version, he must actively pursue the young woman who is a skilled sharpshooter prone to wearing hunting outfits. Cinderella also has three wishes at her disposal, gained from three magic nuts.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Family, Adventure, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sweet, romantic, light, costume drama, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, psychotronic, freeze frame
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Aquamarine (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists the girls' help in winning the heart of a handsome lifeguard.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, romantic, teen, cute, touching, cult classic, mystical, emotional, mythical