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- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsGheorghe DinicaRadu BeliganIoana Ana MacariaA young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsVictor RebengiucMariana MihutPetrica GheorghiuA small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon's lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza's lover, while she is Cracanel's lover. One letter starts the ball rolling and ugly characters start revealing themselves in a burlesque-like fashion.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsMaia MorgensternRazvan VasilescuVictor RebengiucA description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
- DirectorLiviu CiuleiStarsVictor RebengiucLiviu CiuleiStefan CiubotarasuIn 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
- DirectorMilutin KosovacStarsMira StupicaPavle VuisicMilan SrdocContemporary drama about the men who go abroad to find work. The action takes place in a small railway station where a group of building workers are setting off for Germany.
- DirectorAleksandar BoskovicStarsDragan NikolicVesna StanojevicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicAfter spending seven years in prison, an outsider decides to establish his own way of justice in a decaying society.
- DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsMiha BalohIlija DzuvalekovskiSenka VeletanlicA train driver has a rival in his godson for his wife. During a crisis on the train, he refuses to kill him or let him die in a crash.
- DirectorVojislav 'Kokan' RakonjacStarsLjuba TadicJelena ZigonSeverin BijelicA man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a killing spree, causing a panic among the locals.
- DirectorMilo DjukanovicStarsMiodrag Petrovic-CkaljaPavle VuisicSvetislav 'Bule' GoncicIn the sequel to "Truckers," truck driver Jare builds a new house for his large family. Since he's the only one who works for all of them, he sets himself an impossible mission to pay off all of his loans with help from his best friend and associate Paja. So begins the never-ending sequence of bad luck they must face.
- DirectorAnte BabajaStarsManca KosirVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicFabijan SovagovicBeautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
- DirectorMilos 'Misa' RadivojevicStarsAleksandar BercekDara DzokicRade MarkovicA normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to do rebellious acts.
- DirectorAdemir KenovicStarsSlobodan CusticSnezana BogdanovicBozidar BunjevacAfter the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for years. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Keco, last Bosnian outlaw.
- DirectorVojislav 'Kokan' RakonjacStarsLjuba TadicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicSava DamjanovicA guard prevents the inmate's escape from the prison. During his second attempt, the inmate decides to save guard's life who fell in the river while trying to catch him. Since the guard's job is now to keep an eye on him in the cell, they spend a lot of time together and their hatred turns into a sincere friendship. The guard wants to help inmate to escape again.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsRade MarkovicBogdan DiklicDragan NikolicDuring the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.
- DirectorMate ReljaStarsMarinko CosicZlatko KovacicZoran ReljaIn the last days of World War II, two children from Yugoslavia manage to escape a German concentration camp. They begin a long and dangerous journey home.
- DirectorRadivoje 'Lola' DjukicStarsMija AleksicMiodrag Petrovic-CkaljaVera Ilic-DjukicIn a small motel located next to the highway there's nothing but boredom and laziness, but only until the waiter Raka gets promotion into a DE chief (Duty executor) of it. Soon he becomes obsessed with his position, beginning to push everybody around and acting like a "Small God". The staff will prepare their revenge when the general manager arrives to visit the so-called renovated facility.
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsLojze RozmanBert SotlarMajda PotokarTwo partisan coalminers need to take three orphan children away from dangerous area to the liberated land.
- DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsPolde BibicMilena ZupancicIvo BanYear 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the sisbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek. His wife Mimika and their children Tincek and olga know only that he had deserted the German army and gone over to the Soviet Red Army. Mimika works a a hired hand for the farmer, Medved, who givesher bread and milk for her child instead of regular wages. This is not at all to the liking of her relative Vanc. One fine day, father Malek comes home and the family is happilly reunited. Vanc tells Jozeabout the agrarian reform, through which the Maleks even get their own plot of land. In exchange of this, they have to remove all the religious symbols from their home. They stop going to the church, and must shout Tito's and Stalin's praises every day. Joze Malek changes completely. He tills his plot of kand as though obsessed, becomes greedy and begins to emulate the big landowners, calling himself a socialist kulak. Yet suddenly, the fact that Malek was a solider in Red Army is no longer acceptedable. He is suspected of being a collaborator with the Soviet Informbureau. Joze manages to clear his name at the hearing by acting stupid, but he shifts the blame to his relative Vanc, saying that he was only doing what he hadtold him to, and Vanc is arrested. Malek's land rights are taken away from him, as agricultural co-operatives will be established.
- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsBekim FehmiuIlija DzuvalekovskiNada SuboticA man cannot bear the superficiality of human relationships, and when his best friend lets him down, he commits suicide by jumping off a skyscraper.
- DirectorMario FanelliStarsBoris BuzancicLjuba TadicZvonko StrmacA man and his conscience are shown on their way to paradise as the only illusion that saves him the present civilization's hell. However, it is the same people and same events that await him there.
- DirectorAntun VrdoljakStarsBoris DvornikZdravka KrstulovicKatja ZupcicFriday is the day that everyone goes away for the weekend. A bank clerk spends his weekend off a small island with his boat, but the weekend does not run its usual course.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsBogdan DiklicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicPavle VuisicThe Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
- DirectorZivko NikolicStarsMira FurlanMilutin 'Mima' KaradzicPetar BozovicA conservative couple decides to leave their rural community and the wife reluctantly takes a job at a naturist resort. Soon their conservative lifestyle starts colliding with the unconventional one.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsSlavko StimacDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicMira BanjacFor the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsRade SerbedzijaErland JosephsonDusica ZegaracThis is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicIt's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorKresimir GolikStarsFranjo MajeticMirjana BohanecRelja BasicThe story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, but wants to marry off the aunt. After a couple of invitations to their Zagreb home, the father becomes aware of Fulir's passes at his wife...
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsMilena DravicIvica VidovicSeverin BijelicIdealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsJovan Janicijevic-BurdusAnka ZupancDusan JanicijevicIn a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change attitude towards them, disarming and shutting them off, but the pilots were able to escape. Palming off the corpses of two other killed prisoners to the Germans, who have since captured the real pilots, the Chetniks make local people enraged, despite their captain's attempts to cover up this wrongdoing, done on a public holiday.
- DirectorHajrudin KrvavacStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicRade MarkovicLjubisa SamardzicA man who tried to stop Nazi soldiers in World War II.
- DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsBoris BuzancicDjurdja IvezicAntun VrdoljakA bus and a truck are destined to collide with each other on a highway. Their passengers go on about their lives without knowing what will happen.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsFabijan SovagovicAdem CejvanJagoda KaloperSmall village in mountains of Dalmatinska Zagora is under total control of Andrija, local Party official. One day two members of secret police come to the village and everybody knows they are going to arrest somebody, but nobody knows whom.
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsAleksandar GavricLjuba TadicNikola JovanovicOne Serbian army battery in the First World War, in forced march with no stopping and rest, arrives to Cer Mountain, and, in decisive moment, enters the fight and throws off Austrian troops which penetrated into the country. This is not only the chronicle of the Battle of Cer, but Serbian drama and drama of one nation who made impossible possible during the fight against the empire which wanted to take away their country. This drama is based on credible events and authentic documents.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsDragan NikolicRuzica SokicNeda SpasojevicThe story about Jimmy the Dingy, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsAnnie GirardotIvan PalúchMija AleksicA bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicAli RanerSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicThree stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsBekim FehmiuOlivera KatarinaVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicTensions arise in a Gypsy community when a local feather seller falls in love with a much younger girl.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsBranko DjuricRene BitorajacFilip SovagovicBosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsNikola KojoDragan Petrovic-PeleBogdan DiklicA man awakens from a two-month-long coma with total amnesia and sets out to discover the truth about his identity.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsDimitrije VojnovLazar RistovskiPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicA 10-year-old boy goes through variety of silly situations and confusions during the peak of Marshal Tito's cult of personality in 1950's Yugoslavia.
- DirectorDusan KovacevicStarsBora TodorovicBranislav LecicNatasa NinkovicAfter the collapse of the Yugoslavian government, a former secret agent, now a taxi driver, enters the office of a former university professor, now a firm director.
- DirectorDusan KovacevicBozidar 'Bota' NikolicStarsDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicBora TodorovicMira BanjacConvinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, a man falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsTarik AkanMelike DemiragTuncel KurtizBecause of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep in far away Ankara.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsHülya KoçyigitKerem YilmazerAli SenA young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. The family refuses to help her because they can't see anything wrong with the boy and all money is needed for a new shop they have just opened.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsUfuk BayraktarVildan AtaseverEngin AkyürekBekir loves Ugur, who loves Zagor, who is about to get out of jail. An already tense love triangle is thrown into turmoil on a hot summer night, when Zagor kills someone, and Ugur disappears.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsSerdar OrçinZeynep TokusEngin GünaydinMusa, who works as a bookkeeper in the customs office, believes in the emptiness and absurdity of life. He doesn't struggle to change his life; he lets himself flow along with events because he thinks that it all leads to the same end. The death of his mother doesn't affect him. Although he loves her, her death makes him joyful.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsEngin GünaydinSerhat TutumluerNihal YalçinA man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find himself disgusted.
- DirectorSerdar AkarStarsErkan CanHaldun BoysanYildiray SahinlerSailors want to remain in their small world, warm and cozy and full of lies, but they kidnap a prostitute from some pimps.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuzaffer ÖzdemirMehmet Emin ToprakZuhal GencerAfter his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsBaki DavrakGürsoy GemecCengiz DanerA Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsYavuz BingölHatice AslanAhmet Rifat SungarA family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsEva RasSlobodan AligrudicRuzica SokicA young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMilena DravicJanez VrhovecEva RasA love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsEric RobertsGreta ScacchiBill KerrEx-marine turned Coca-Cola marketing guru Becker is on a mission to boost sales in Australia when he discovers a dry spot in the Outback, where everyone is guzzling homegrown brew - and not a drop of his company's cola.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsSusan AnspachErland JosephsonPer OscarssonA bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsCarole LaurePierre ClémentiAnna PrucnalAfter winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsBoris CavazzaAlicja JachiewiczZarko RadicSplit shipyard worker Mate lives with his elderly mother and wife Mara, while trying to prove himself as a boxer. At the same time, his younger brother Luka is a drunk, a womanizer who fantasizes about trip to Germany, therefore embarks in a passionate love affair with a young girl Orom, who finds him reminding her of her step father, who was in fact her father. The tense atmosphere seasoned with sea waves can only bring tragedy.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsFrano LasicMilan StrljicTanja PoberznikThree young men - a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew - are the best of friends in pre-World War II Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Germans and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of terror and gruesome massacres. The friends must now take different sides in a global conflict.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsDaniel OlbrychskiEna BegovicGorica PopovicA partisan commander must shoot one of his comrades because he had neglected the struggle and turned to a life of lust and vice. When Italy capitulates in September of 1943 and the war seems over for many Partisans, the commander follows the very same path.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsKatalin LadikBoris KraljMarina NemetOn the isolated island of Saint, a lighthouse keeper and his wife receive a message that a mysterious sailor is raping and killing women on lonely islands. The lighthouse keeper and his wife are estranged from each other, and she is in a state of constant anxiety and sexual irritation. In addition to the two of them, only an old barb and a displaced girl still live on the island. A mysterious naked man lands on the island.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsRade SerbedzijaPetar BozovicMiodrag KrivokapicTrials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsMladen BudiscakJagoda KaloperSrecko PticekFor being unable to find any decent job, an unconventional young man of working-class background gives up of all sorts of employment, and accompanied by his girlfriend, he tells his story in front of film cameras.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsRade SerbedzijaAleksandar BercekBozidar BobanIn 1960, Vitomir Bezjak graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb as an honor student. Now, he is looking for a job, lives like a bohemian and works on his musical pieces. In spite of the fact that he is the recipient of much praise, no one wants to hire him. His girlfriend leaves him and, disappointed, he accepts a job as a piano teacher. He soon falls in love with a rich widow, whose son he teaches. The boy's grandfather throws a big wedding party for the new couple, introducing Vitomir to many influential people. The young man's life changes radically: he becomes famous, attending political meetings and big receptions. Everyone expects a masterpiece from him, but he is no longer the talented young composer he used to be. Finally, after he finishes his magnum opus, one of the orchestra members accuses him of plagiarism.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicVladislava MilosavljevicMladen BudiscakTomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsGorica PopovicVitomira LoncarBogdan DiklicThis movie, based in part on the popular novel, tells two tales about modern women. One is Stefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who is desperately trying to find the man of her dreams. The other story is about a woman director who is making the movie abozt Stefica and has the same problem.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMira FurlanBogdan DiklicA pretty factory girl falls for an ex con. He's still in love with his ex wife. Love triangle soon becomes even larger.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsIvo GregurevicDavor JanjicBranka Trlin-MatulaBased on the true story about Jovo Stanivukovic, alias Caruga, a bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsToni GojanovicSergej TrifunovicEmir HadzihafizbegovicA small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa, who diagnoses a sexually transmitted disease. Not wishing his wife to know about it and trying to find excuses not to go home, he declares a state of emergency, claiming that the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A joke transforms into war hysteria: soldiers dig trenches, Pasic grows wilder as the days go by, Sinisa embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his best friend Ljuba decides to leave the army. The situation slowly runs out of control...
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsNebojsa GlogovacDejan AcimovicKsenija MarinkovicA gay Croatian professor confronts his own xenophobia after agreeing to help his Serbian neighbor prepare for a citizenship exam, while the neighbor's wife cares for the professor's elderly homophobic invalid father.
- DirectorSrdjan KaranovicStarsMeto JovanovskiMira FurlanSonja JaceveskaA famous director wants to shoot a film about forbidden love between a Serb and Albanian woman from Kosovo, but the religious, traditional and mentality differences prevent all three protagonists to make their dreams come true.
- DirectorSrdjan KaranovicStarsCaris CorfmanPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicDragan NikolicAn American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsDragan NikolicBogdan DiklicGorica PopovicOne week in a life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National Class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsSemka Sokolovic-BertokBogdan DiklicSnezana NiksicThe staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsBoris KomnenicNeda ArnericRadko PolicA frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he's constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsMustafa NadarevicAnica DobraMilorad Mandic-MandaPiano teacher is deeply traumatised by the events of his childhood, as well as by political oppression in his youth. Decades later, all those traumas lead to carnage.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicDragan NikolicIn a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily. Since one of the patients is planning to "get married" the doctor takes all the patients out on the street and uses the wedding as an excuse. A person "who can not fly" goes out to the streets with them, but he only exists as a person in the minds of the patients. However, trouble starts arising on the first step they take outside the clinic. In freedom the patients (not used to the games of the "normal society") start doing whatever they want to or feel like, not paying attention to and ignoring the chaos they are causing...
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsSvetlana BojkovicIrfan MensurVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicA fugitive girl, a stuntman and a young man who lost his dog quite some time before, are joining together on a trip to reach each of their own destination. A youngster gets emotionally connected to the girl, and he'd try to help her to leave the bossy stuntman, to get false passport and escape to Paris.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsLjuba TadicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicDusica ZegaracDr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace. The events that followed reveal that the doctor used his own way of treatment in order to express his own essentially despotic and hypocritical personality.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicDragan MaksimovicMirjana KaranovicIn September 1945, a fire burns down the school and the new Communist authorities get into the church, hang the flag of the Communist Party, and paint over frescoes--which miraculously restore themselves.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsAleksandar BercekVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicBogdan DiklicRandom Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.
- DirectorJasmin DizdarStarsThomas GoodridgeFaruk PrutiTony PetersIn London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsGiulietta MasinaPetra VancíkováTobias HoeslThe Feather Fairy lives in the sky and gives snow to the people. She lives with a boy called Jakob, who one day ventures into the human world and falls for a peasant girl.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsBolek PolívkaFrantisek DessetBorek DlouhýPepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsJozef KronerStefan KvietikMichal DocolomanskýA historic mega-film, one family saga, three generations (1887 -1917) assimilated to the bee community in the hive. The queen bee serves as a big mother that symbolizes the family and national roots, the power and meaning of tradition and the return to it. The mosaic of the bricklaying Pichanda family's lives is made of love, hope, hard work, human understanding and also the tragedies of economic crisis, war and human malice. Dreams, symbols, and life in all its forms create a colored rainbow spanning from birth to death and from mystery to reality and back.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsPhilippe AvronJirí SýkoraMagda VásáryováThree adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsBolek PolívkaCsongor KassaiJaroslav DusekIn German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsPetr FormanEmília VásáryováJan TrískaThe discovery of an abandoned child by two smugglers kicks into a gear a series of tragic, comic events.
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsMichael BeranMiroslav DonutilSimona StasováTwo families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totally stupid; fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsBolek PolívkaEva HolubováJaroslav DusekA bittersweet comedy set just prior to 1984, during the era of 'practical socialism'. For political reasons, Bedrich Mára (Bolek Polívka) has had to give up teaching at Prague's Academy of Art. He is not allowed to exhibit and has been pushed to the sidelines of interest and lucrative commissions. He and his ceramicist wife (Eva Holubová) and two sons live in a small apartment on the outskirts of Prague. Míla Brecka (Jaroslav Dusek), the school principal, and his family stand in stark contrast to the Máras. Comrade Míla and his ambitious wife (Vilma Cibulková), Bedrich's fellow student from the Academy, have gone with the socialist flow for years. They find justification for their behavior in the usual words: 'Someones got to swim along with them to make things better; someones got to make that sacrifice!'
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsJan WerichEmília VásáryováVlastimil BrodskýPeople arrive in a small village with a strange cat wearing glasses. When someone takes them off, he can color people, according to their nature and mood. Adults consider him dangerous; children love him.
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsVlastimil BrodskýRadoslav BrzobohatýVladimír MensíkVarious scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsJan JakesVáclav BabkaJana BrejchováFour stories, four seasons of the year, four periods from the human life
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlastimil BrodskýVáclav NeckárSet in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsMagda VásáryováJirí SchmitzerJaromír HanzlíkAn evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsJános BánMarián LabudaRudolf HrusínskýThe life of a small village runs on its own.
- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsJosef KemrMagda VásáryováNada HejnaA grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsIvan BarnevOldrich KaiserJulia JentschA look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlastimil BrodskýFrantisek RehákThe friends enjoy the charms of nature - and of their guests.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsJosef KemrZdenek SverákDaniela KolárováThe Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsJosef AbrhámMarián LabudaJaromír HanzlíkCzechia, 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic background, he is a man of fortune and is trying to buy the castle. To impress his neighbors and the local politicians he invites them to a great hunting party. Uninvited comes a man who claims to be Duke Alexej. Stoklasa believes him to be a hustler. This hustler, however, manages to charm all the women before he leaves.