Filip Balek-Brodský
Actor · 1871 – 1949
Movies23
Movie6.2DramaRomanceThe illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the son of Bořice, Klement. Klement asserts the rights, becomes a lawyer, and marries Jirina. In order not to cause further contradictions, Mary will go to Prague secretly at night. There he is living heavily as a waitress. He resists the insults of architect Jansky until he ultimately decides to commit suicide in despair.
Movie9.0ComedyThe film depicts the troubles of Herr Verner (Karel Hasler), a middle-aged bachelor dentist who wants to marry.
Movie9.0Drama- MovieDrama
Movie7.5RomanceDramaRíša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of his debts. Ríša, however, is not entirely beyond hope. He decides to go and stay for a while with his uncle, a priest, who lives in Moravia, in order to prepare for his exams. He meets Helenka, the timid daughter of the local gamekeeper, at a village ball and is enchanted by her. The days pass and their idyllic relationship begins to tire Ríša. He begins to tell Helenka about his former debauched life the about the broken hearts of beautiful women. Helenka is hurt and refuses to see Ríša anymore. His uncle, the priest, is incensed at his behaviour and orders his nephew out of the house. Ríša tries desperately to find Helenka so he can make it up to her.
Movie8.0DramaDvořák's well-known composition reappears again and again in the serious moments of the lives of the father and son Hupeks - talented non-professional musicians for whom music gives them the opportunity to rise above difficulties and problems...
Humoreska
1939 · 2 votes
MovieFamilyFantasyA silent version of Cinderella.
Popelka
1929
Movie6.5Science FictionThrillerIn early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchists.
Krakatit
1948 · 24 votes
Movie6.7DramaA story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.
Movie5.0AdventureRudolf Měšťák’s silent film The Prague Executioner, based on the novel of the same name by Josef Svátek, is a historical tale of love, betrayal and revenge.
- Movie9.0Romance
Bláhové děvče
1938 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
Boží mlýny
1929 · 1 votes
- Movie5.0Drama
A story of two story of two children tossed between their indifferent parents and a progressive boarding school.
- Movie6.0Comedy
Švanda dudák
1937 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Cácorka
1935 · 1 votes
Movie3.7ComedySilvestr Blažek loses his job, but he doesn't lose heart. He also courts the saleswoman Boženka Straková. The driver of the builder Herold, Karel Verner, is also interested in the girl. Boženka is the daughter of Narcis Straka, a man with a mysterious past. However, Herold's father-in-law Jakub Suldovský recognizes him as an old friend from Vienna, where they both loved the same woman....
Movie9.0ComedyWoman concert star seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the girl was very small, and receives inadvertent help from the industrialist's just-fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
Žena, která ví, co chce
1934 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara I.
1926 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
Radioamatéři
1927
- MovieDramaRomance
The problem of companionship marriages , i.e. marriages determined by purely practical rather than emotional motives, is addressed with all its pros and cons using two relationships . The four protagonists are the student Erich Helmholz and his wife Elli, a seamstress, both a happily married but not in love couple, and the consultant's daughter Maria, who comes from the best "stable" and who, in her ignorance, first allows herself to be impregnated by any man (without really understanding how this could have happened) and then, under pressure from her horrified parents, enters into a companionship marriage with another man who has brilliant career prospects.
Movie8.0DramaSrdce na kolejích
1937 · 1 votes
- MovieAdventure
Dva pekelné dny
1928
- Movie6.3DramaRomance
The film is about an unhappy mother who left her husband and a young son. She works as a singer and the boy is in the oven at the house on the wreath. The housekeeper beats the son and he runs away.