01 A documentary follows a young heroin addict over more than a decade of relapse and recovery attempts.
13 Best Czech Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 1, 2026
Czech Republic Arthouse thought provokingfeel good
The Czech New Wave of the 1960s produced some of world cinema’s sharpest political satire before the Soviet invasion shut it down, and the tradition of dry, absurdist comedy underneath real hardship never fully disappeared.
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02 A retired teacher takes a job as a bottle-return clerk and can't stop meddling in strangers' lives.
03 Two neighboring families on opposite sides of Communist-era politics clash across one New Year's Eve.
04 A carpenter appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish shop struggles to protect its elderly owner.
05 Two young women wage an anarchic, gleefully destructive rebellion against a society that expects them to behave.
06 A childless couple hides a Jewish neighbor while their own household grows more dangerously complicated.
07 A bachelor cellist's sham marriage leaves him unexpectedly raising a Russian boy on his own.
08 A factory worker's brief romance with a soldier exposes the loneliness underneath a state-run matchmaking scheme.
09 A small-town fire brigade's celebration collapses into one bureaucratic disaster after another.
10 A young railway apprentice's coming-of-age unfolds against a quiet act of wartime resistance.
11 Rival medieval clans clash in a brutal, sprawling epic of feuding, faith, and abduction.
12 A mild-mannered crematorium worker's fascination with death curdles into fascist delusion under Nazi occupation.
13 A dramatization of the real manhunt for one of the Czech Republic's most notorious escaped convicts.
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