Jaromil Jireš Movies
- 1970
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders6.91970HD
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...
- 1966
Pearls of the Deep
Pearls of the Deep5.9831966HD
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...
- 1980
Escape Home
Escape Home61980HD
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.
- 1963
The Dynamite Watcher
The Dynamite Watcher01963HD
- 1987
Lion with a White Mane
Lion with a White Mane51987HD
The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...
- 1984
Katapult
Katapult21984HD
Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.
- 1982
Opera ve vinici
Opera ve vinici01982HD
- 1969
The Joke
The Joke6.51969HD
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he...
- 1977
Flying Saucers Over Our Village
Flying Saucers Over Our Village4.51977HD
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.
- 1974
Královský gambit
Královský gambit01974HD
- 1966
An Occasion to Speak
An Occasion to Speak01966HD
Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.
- 1988
O Háderunovi a víle Elóře
O Háderunovi a víle Elóře01988HD
- 1990
Jestřábí moudrost
Jestřábí moudrost01990HD
A gloomy tale about a king whose pride robbed him of love, friends and power. A cruel curse is at the beginning of the story of this fairy tale based...
- 1964
The Cry
The Cry6.91964HD
While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends...
- 1993
Helimadoe
Helimadoe71993HD
- 1977
The Island of the Silver Herons
The Island of the Silver Herons51977HD
The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....
- 1980
Payment in Kind
Payment in Kind5.31980HD
In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...
- 1979
The Young Man and Moby Dick
The Young Man and Moby Dick41979HD
Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad...
- 1958
A Box of Film
A Box of Film01958HD
A film about filmmaking.
- 1983
O labuti
O labuti51983HD
Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.