Jiří Lír Movies

Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical

In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in the immediate post-war years and tells the story...

Ivan Mládek's detective parody takes us to a private birthday party, which an eccentric count livens up for his own amusement by inviting the...

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river. In the...

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance...

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic...

The popular folk singer Jaro Zárubecký, a former waiter, follows the motto "A man is not what he is, but what people think of him", and...

Angelika, a ten years old daughter of a spa visitor Bachmann is terribly bored in Karlovy Vary spa. Her father enjoys different spa procedures,...

Former sailor Kotrba, nicknamed the Admiral, has one dream, to take his own ship to sea. He's been building it for five years and now it's finished,...

A tragicomic tale of the wondrous adventures of two medieval Sitnian knights who venture into the twentieth century with the intent to banish the...

Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she...