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- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsEduard CupákVladimír MensíkLukás VaculíkKarel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children hoping they would escape a country poverty. He soon threw his daughter Vera (Zlata Adamovská) out of home; he did not like her relationship with a married man. The competition of Bata factory was unsurpassable for a minor craftsman Bursík and his neighbours owed him for minor services. The desperate Bursík sent Kajda to sell his mother's dresses to get money for food. In a second-hand shop, Kajda met his first love.
- DirectorVáclav VorlícekStarsJan KacerKveta FialováJirí SovákThe invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C (Jan Kacer) 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 (Kveta Fialová). 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 (Jirí Sovák) 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.
- DirectorVáclav VorlícekStarsLibuse SafránkováPavel TrávnícekCarola BraunbockLife changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the family coachman gives her three magical hazelnuts.
- DirectorJirí SvobodaStarsPetr BruknerRadoslav BrzobohatýVáclav BurkertA surreal look at madness in a brooding Czech countryside mansion.
- DirectorZbynek BrynychStarsZdenek StepánekIlja PracharJirí VrstálaTheresienstadt camp where Germans held prominent Jews during the World War II. The film shows last days of the camp under the Germans.
- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsVítezslav VejrazkaMiroslav MachácekCestmír RandaA priest travels to investigate a miller suspected to be working with the devil.
- DirectorJirí WeissStarsIvan MistríkDaniela SmutnáJirina SejbalováDuring World War II, a young student from Prague hides a Jewish girl inside his house. But not all of his neighbors are willing to take the risk.
- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsMarek ProboszZbigniew SuszynskiMiroslav MachácekAfter a murder of a gamekeeper who catches them red-handed having just downed a deer, two teenage boys, conceited Ruda (Marek Probosz) and shy Václav (Zbigniew Suszynski) go on the run through the woods.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsJan WerichMarie VásováNatasa GollováEmperors baker and Bakers emperor - it refers to the fact that in movie just a regular young baker gets switched with real old Emperor which leaves everyone thinking that emperor did get younger by drinking the potion of youth.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsKarel FialaRudolf DeylMilos KopeckýStraight shooting Lemonade Joe cleans up Stetson City, in this musical parody of early Westerns, after shooting the pants off villain Old Pistol. Joe's endorsement of Kolaloka lemonade as the refresher that assures deadly aim, convinces the Arizona sin-town to abstain from alcohol. But Trigger Whiskey maker Duke Badman's brother the devious gunslinger Hogofogo, comes to save his sibling's saloon from Joe's allies, father and daughter temperance revivalists, the Goodmans. Based on famous Czech parody novel from the 1940s and its various stage adaptations.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsMichal DocolomanskýRudolf HrusínskýMilos KopeckýWhen the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsZdena StudenkováVlastimil HarapesVáclav VoskaIn this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.
- DirectorJirí KrejcíkStarsFrantisek SmolíkJana BrejchováIvan MistríkThe story of High school in Czechia (then Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia) during occupation by Nazi Germany, where three students are arrested by Gestapo.
- 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.
- DirectorsJirí MenzelIvo NovákLadislav RychmanStarsLubomír LipskýJan PreucilPetr KostkaThree short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlasta FabiánováBlazena HolisováReturning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie (Hana Buresová) to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie (Blazena Holisová) with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý (Jirí Menzel) who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.
- DirectorZbynek BrynychStarsKarel HögerAngelica DomröseJirí VrstálaAt the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in whom he, to his horror, recognizes Hitler (Fritz Diez).
- DirectorZbynek BrynychStarsMiroslav MachácekOlga ScheinpflugováZdenka ProcházkováA Jewish doctor in Nazi-occupied Prague risks his life by assisting a gravely injured member of the resistance.
- DirectorZdenek TroskaStarsJaroslava KretschmerováPetra PysováOldrich KaiserA mixed group of Czech tourists takes a fun-filled coach tour of sunny Italy.
- DirectorZdenek TroskaStarsPavel KikincukBronek CernyVeronika KánskáThe life of a small Czech village is suddenly in turmoil when a college student, Simon, arrives, who is introducing revolutionary innovations in dairy farming.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsRadovan LukavskýJirí ValaJirina SvorcováA communist film about Czechoslovak border guards in the late 1940s and their struggle against smugglers and refugees.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsJorga KotrbováRudolf PruchaMilan JedlickaAdults who have long ago lost their link to nature fail to understand the feelings a growing 12-year-old country girl has for a beautiful black stallion.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsEva SolcováPetr SkálaOldrich VelenGeologists looking for tin stay at a country hotel.The manager's daughter experiences her first love.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsRadka DulíkováVít OlmerHelena KruzíkováAfter school, thirteen-year old Jitka likes to wander alone through Prague. The brisk girl also likes to sneak around the backyards surrounding the block of flats where she lives. One day, she discovers a high wall and a hospital garden behind it. It is summer and every afternoon, the nurses bring a young man bound to a wheelchair after an injury to the garden. Jitka begins to encourage the young man in his attempts to walk. The incongruous couple begins to have a friendly talk every day.