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The Shop on Main Street
Foreign Films
In World War II Slovakia, an easygoing carpenter, Tono (Jozef Kr=ner) is pressured to move up in the world by his ostentatious wife and fascist brother - in - law. He takes the job...... read more
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Closely Watched Trains
Foreign Films
A reflective, unprepossessing drama about the coming of age of an unambitious young man working as a train dispatcher during the Second World War. Very typical of the Czech New Wave's...... read more
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Kolya
Foreign Films
When a financially strapped former symphony cellist, now making a meager living by playing at funerals, gets pressured into a paper marriage with a friend's single - mother niece,...... read more
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Loves of a Blonde
Foreign Films
Czech TmigrT Milos Forman directs this endearing mood - pleasing story of broken promises, shattered hearts, and the universality of love. Andula, a young girl, follows a piano player...... read more
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Not Angels But Angels
Foreign Films
A frank, often shocking documentary on so-called "boy prostitution" in Prague, with no-holds-barred interviews with the young boys who make their living peddling their bodies on the streets. read more
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Ecstasy
Foreign Films
When a young bride discovers her older husband's impotence, she seeks attention elsewhere. Hedy Lamarr appears in the nude and in a state of sexual passion in this film that caused...... read more
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King of Thieves
Foreign Films
When circus - promoter Caruso buys 10 - year - old Barbu from his poor Ukrainian parents, he promises them that Barbu will have a fabulous new life traveling Western Europe as a circus...... read more
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Black Peter
Foreign Films
Milos Forman's 1963 debut BLACK PETER presages the Czech director's lifelong thematic obsession with precocious, disgruntled outsiders waging war against social conformity and authoritariani...... read more
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Autumn Spring
Foreign Films
A Czech film from director Vladimir Michalek, AUTUMN SPRING tackles the theme of aging and death with subtle humor in this film, which tips its hat to the free - spirited New Wave...... read more
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Mandragora
Foreign Films
Two gay teenage runaways thrown out of their repressive homes try to survive on the streets of Prague. Hunger and desperation forces them into a life of prostitution, drugs, and teen...... read more
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Body Without Soul
Foreign Films
An unflinching portrait of life on the post - Communist streets of Prague where young men find it all too easy to pick up extra money as porno models and hustlers. Director Wicktor...... read more
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Conspirators of Pleasure
Foreign Films
Revered Czech animator Svankmajer's 1993 film is a virtually dialogue - free exploration of the strange intimate workings of the lives of six common people. Through a disturbing mix...... read more
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