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1. The Cremator (1969)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová, Milos Vognic
Votes: 10,787
2. I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
Directors: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb | Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká
Votes: 2,723
3. Ferat Vampire (1982)
90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A doctor Marek is shocked when his beloved nurse Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor makes him believe ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Jirí Menzel, Dagmar Havlová, Jana Brezková, Petr Cepek
Votes: 649
4. Pozadí událostí (2022)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A controversial erotic novel at the university stirs up a wave of resentment and enthusiasm. Who wrote it and who was inspired by it to murder a student?
Stars: Jirí Havelka, Katarzia, Martha Issová, Jitka Cvancarová
Votes: 44
5. The Case of the Exorcist (2015– )
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A three-part crime miniseries from the new cycle Detectives from the Holy Trinity, directed by one of the best present-day Czech film directors Jan Hrebejk. Containing retro-elements and ... See full summary »
Stars: Jan Budar, Tana Hlostova, Klára Melísková, Stanislav Majer
Votes: 123
6. The Spies (1957)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 1,099
7. Krakatit (1948)
97 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an accidental explosion in the lab, its inventor slips in and out of dream-like hallucinations, realizing that he had given the formula to one of his colleagues, who he tries to stop before it is too late.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Karel Höger, Florence Marly, Eduard Linkers, Jirí Plachý
Votes: 477
8. Krakatit (2017 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
About a chemist who is able to produce exceptionally powerful explosive. He calls it "Krakatit," after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. A special feature of Krakatit is that erupts seemingly without cause.
Directors: Blazena Honcarivová, Alice Nellis | Stars: Karel Hábl, Zuzana Krónerová, Klára Lidová, Lenka Smídová
9. Sest cerných dívek aneb Proc zmizel Zajíc? (1969)
82 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Detective Lieutenant Boruvka (Lubomír Lipský) is called to the State Scientific Library to investigate the loss of a precious manuscript, the Infernal Psalter of the Occult Sciences by ... See full summary »
Director: Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Zuzana Savrdová, Iva Janzurová, Zdenek Rehor
Votes: 39
10. Quiet Is the Night (1978)
128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys during the Christmas season. The police commissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he ... See full summary »
Director: Tadeusz Chmielewski | Stars: Tomasz Zaliwski, Piotr Lysak, Henryk Bista, Miroslaw Konarowski
Votes: 284
11. Spravedlnost pro Selvina (1968 TV Movie)
70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A dark comedy about a man who, against his will, dedicated his life to the fight for justice.
Director: Jirí Weiss | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Jirina Sejbalová, Míla Myslíková
Votes: 40
12. Vodník (2019)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Marie Výrová investigates a closed case concerning the hideous murder of a small child on the outskirts of Olomouc, which took place thirty years previously. She is convinced of ... See full summary »
Stars: Klára Melísková, Václav Neuzil, Alena Doláková, Jaroslava Pokorná
Votes: 117
13. Temné slunce (1980)
135 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A remake of the 1948 atomic-age film, "Krakatit", by the same director. A scrupulous scientist is in the throes of a serious ethical dilemma after creating a highly-efficient explosive which may bring immeasurable suffering to mankind.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Rudolf Hrusínský, Magda Vásáryová, Jerzy Kamas
Votes: 58
14. Blue Shadows (2016– )
Crime, Drama
This time the detectives deal with the case of a murdered professor. One day a cleaning woman finds him shot to death in his own study. The detectives will thus investigate whether the ... See full summary »
Stars: Klára Melísková, Stanislav Majer, Miroslav Krobot, Tereza Ramba
Votes: 86
15. Rozpustený a vypustený (1985)
85 min | Comedy, Crime
A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.
Director: Ladislav Smoljak | Stars: Jirí Zahajský, Marek Brodský, Rudolf Hrusínský, Blazena Holisová
Votes: 579
16. Máj (2008)
80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The time-tested poem, more than a century old, transposed into a stirring story of undying love and passion. The story takes place in an unspecified, distant past, but the young heroes are more or less contemporary characters.
Director: F.A. Brabec | Stars: Matej Stropnický, Nina Divísková, Krystof Hádek, Vladimír Javorský
Votes: 233
17. Fear (1964)
103 min | Crime, Drama
A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on volunteer work some time before. The ... See full summary »
Director: Petr Schulhoff | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Bohus Záhorský, Helga Cocková
Votes: 122
18. Smrt cerného krále (1972)
115 min | Crime, Mystery
Prague of the 1930s. A pretty young girl boards a crowded tram. Suddenly she catches the attention of a young man who not only appreciates the girl's charm, but also tries to steal her ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Jaroslav Marvan, Josef Bláha, Josef Vinklár, Jana Brejchová
Votes: 105
19. The Beggar's Opera (1991)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Screen version of the play written in 1728 of the same name, portrays the underworld of Mafia-like gangsters and the rivalry and animosity between the various different gangs.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Marián Labuda, Nina Divísková, Libuse Safránková
Votes: 182
20. Kapitán Exner (2017– )
55 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Stars: Michal Dlouhý, Jan Vondrácek, David Novotný, Vica Kerekes
Votes: 49
21. Walet pikowy (1960)
92 min | Comedy, Crime
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
Director: Tadeusz Chmielewski | Stars: Czeslaw Roszkowski, Janina Traczykówna, Stefan Bartik, Jarema Stepowski
Votes: 61
22. The Shadow of the Ferns (1985)
90 min | Crime, Drama
After 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.
Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Marek Probosz, Zbigniew Suszynski, Miroslav Machácek, Frantisek Peterka
Votes: 156
23. Five Dead Dogs (2016– )
Crime, Drama
Three bears have mysteriously disappeared from the ZOO. And what's worse - the porter died during the nocturnal assault on the security guard. An extensive search for the possible motives ... See full summary »
Stars: Klára Melísková, Stanislav Majer, Tereza Ramba, Miroslav Krobot
Votes: 82
24. Eel Squad (2019)
97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Five bored guys get a thrill from dressing up like police commandos and "raiding" wrongdoers until they accidentally stumble onto an actual crime.
Director: Vladimír Michálek | Stars: Oldrich Kaiser, Matej Hádek, Krystof Hádek, Jirí Vyorálek
Votes: 94
25. Hrísní lidé mesta prazského (1968– )
Crime, Drama
Appearing on the scene in the series of thirteen detective stories is the Prague underworld of the 1920s and 1930s. The trio of police inspectors hunting for criminals from petty thieves to... See full summary »
Stars: Jaroslav Marvan, Josef Bláha, Josef Vinklár, Frantisek Filipovský
Votes: 176
26. Storyteller (2014)
Crime, Drama, Romance
Storyteller is a love story of a man balancing on the edge of love , passion and lies.
Director: Vladimír Michálek | Stars: Jirí Machácek, Eva Herzigova, Anna Geislerová, Matej Hádek
Votes: 116
27. Touha Sherlocka Holmese (1971)
97 min | Comedy, Crime
Sherlock Holmes feels that his destiny is music but the life leads him to criminal cases.
Director: Stepán Skalský | Stars: Radovan Lukavský, Václav Voska, Vlasta Fialová, Marie Rosulková
Votes: 37
28. Tereza (1961)
76 min | Crime
Jan Bernard (Vladimír Ráz) reports to the district police department that his wife Hilda did not return from visiting her sister in East Berlin. For young investigator Tereza Machátová (... See full summary »
Director: Pavel Blumenfeld | Stars: Jirina Svorcová, Vladimír Ráz, Gustav Heverle, Otomar Krejca
Votes: 18
29. Hríchy pro pátera Knoxe (1992– )
Crime
TV criminal series with Zlata Adamovská as singer (and detective) Eva Adamová. Each story contains at least one "sin" against the Decalogue of friar Knox who wrote ten things the good crime... See full summary »
Stars: Zlata Adamovská, Eugen Jegorov, Vladimír Dlouhý, Miroslava Plestilová
Votes: 47
30. Zlaté rybky (1978)
87 min | Crime
Director: Otakar Fuka | Stars: Radovan Lukavský, Adolf Filip, Oldrich Vízner, Jana Andresíková
Votes: 23
31. Zrcadlo nenávisti (1987 TV Movie)
51 min | Crime
Director: Dusan Klein | Stars: Jirí Bartoska, Vlastimil Bedrna, Slávka Budínová, Petr Cepek
Votes: 16
32. Zlocin v dívcí skole (1966)
107 min | Comedy, Crime
Three 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... See full summary »
Directors: Jirí Menzel, Ivo Novák, Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jan Preucil, Petr Kostka, Jana Gýrová
Votes: 106
33. Cintamani & podvodník (1965)
111 min | Comedy, Crime
In 'Chintamani and birds', we witness the collector's obsession of M.D. Vitásek, who discovers a unique Persian carpet in a junk shop. The journey to acquire it is more than a little ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Jarmila Kronbauerová, Josef Hlinomaz, Ludmila Roubíková
Votes: 68
34. A Flirt with Miss Stribrna (1969)
76 min | Crime, Drama
Gymnastics professor Vasek Zamberk (Pavel Landovský) would like to get closer to Miss Lenka Stríbrná (Marie Drahokoupilová). He invites her to races and introduces her to his friend Karel, ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Gajer | Stars: Marie Drahokoupilová, Jan Kacer, Pavel Landovský, Milena Zahrynowska
Votes: 31
35. Já, spravedlnost (1968)
88 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
At 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Karel Höger, Angelica Domröse, Jirí Vrstála, Fritz Diez
Votes: 71
36. 13. revír (1946)
102 min | Crime, Drama
Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknamed The Cat. He rightly suspects that Cat will go and pick up his last loot which the ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Dana Medrická, Jaroslav Marvan, Ella Nollová, Vilém Pfeiffer
Votes: 99
37. Mravenci nesou smrt (1986)
82 min | Crime
Drugs from West Berlin are smuggled into Karlovy Vary, through several arranged intermediaries. One of the prominent members of the criminal organization is the elegant Eva Krausová. ... See full summary »
Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Josef Vinklár, Jan Kanyza, Rudolf Jelínek, Jirí Zahajský
Votes: 35
38. Horror Story (1993)
99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
The film is based on the book of the same title (A Sanguinary Novel) by the very individual Czech painter, typographer, author and philosopher Josef Vachal, who squeezed adventure, love, ... See full summary »
Director: Jaroslav Brabec | Stars: Ondrej Pavelka, Klára Jirsáková, Raoul Schránil, Jakub Saic
Votes: 129
39. Game of a Handsome Dragoon (1971)
89 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec (Vladimír Mensík) from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko (... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Jaroslav Marvan, Josef Vinklár, Josef Bláha, Vladimír Mensík
Votes: 157
40. Dum ztracených dusí (1967)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Escaped inmate of a mental home Franz Moose has been found shot dead in the forest. In the course of their investigation, District Commander Havel (Jirí Adamíra) and Lieutenant Mares (... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Hanibal | Stars: Jirí Adamíra, Miroslav Zounar, Jana Stepánková, Alexandra Myskova
Votes: 31
41. Na kolejích ceká vrah (1970)
91 min | Crime, Thriller
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway ... See full summary »
Director: Josef Mach | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jaromír Hanzlík, Kveta Fialová
Votes: 131
42. Attempted Murder (1973)
98 min | Crime, Drama
The head of a Prague clinic, Professor Trojan (Karel Höger), lives a quiet life in his flat in the Lesser Town, one of Prague's historical and oldest boroughs. His son Petr (Josef Abrhám) ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Karel Höger, Slávka Budínová, Jana Brejchová, Martin Ruzek
Votes: 38
43. Capek's Tales (1947)
106 min | Crime, Drama
Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Jaroslav Prucha, Jaroslav Marvan, Lída Chválová, Frantisek Kovárík
Votes: 70
44. The Lost Face (1965)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Central Europe, 1930s: Czech physician Bartos (Vlastimil Brodský) devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of ... See full summary »
Director: Pavel Hobl | Stars: Jarmila Bechynová, Jana Brejchová, Jana Brezková, Vlastimil Brodský
Votes: 51
45. Sign of the Cancer (1967)
87 min | Crime, Drama
In a rather bizarre environment of a hospital, a criminal plot takes place - a murder occurs there. One of the doctors discovers the real reason for the crime and the perpetrator. However, ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Zora Bozinová, Zdenek Stepánek, Ilja Prachar, Lubomír Cerník
Votes: 73
46. Murder in the Excelsior Hotel (1971)
89 min | Crime, Mystery
This retro crime story revolves around a bottle of French cognac that was used to kill the charming Dana Matousová in a high-end Prague establishment. All the threads of the intricate case,... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Jaroslav Marvan, Frantisek Filipovský, Josef Vinklár, Josef Bláha
Votes: 147
47. Poklad byzantského kupce (1967)
95 min | Comedy, Crime
Kamila Housková (Gabriela Vránová), a student at the School of Applied Arts in Prague working part-time at an engravers' cooperative, arrives at the main police station with important ... See full summary »
Director: Ivo Novák | Stars: Jirí Vala, Gabriela Vránová, Jirí Sovák, Lubomír Lipský
Votes: 89
48. Ocitý svedek (2021 Video)
93 min | Crime, Drama, History
Director: Jirí Havelka | Stars: Pavel Batek, Ondrej Bauer, Vladislav Benes, Pavla Beretová
49. Cas pracuje pro vraha (1980)
84 min | Crime
Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Hanibal | Stars: Frantisek Nemec, Eduard Cupák, Ludek Munzar, Josef Somr
Votes: 25
50. Prípad pro malíre (2016 TV Movie)
70 min | Crime
Director: Lucie Belohradská | Stars: Viktor Preiss, David Matásek, Jaromír Dulava, Marek Adamczyk
Votes: 28