Best movies of Jaromil Jires

Actors : Jaroslava Schallerová, Jirí Prýmek, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Inspired by fairy-tales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red-Riding Hood, "Valerie and her Week of Wonders" is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world.

Actors : Josef Somr, Evald Schorm, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years ...

Actors : Josef Abrhám, Stepanka Cittová, Eva Kopecká, Eva Límanová,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

TV mechanic Slávek (Josef Abrhám) takes his wife Ivana (Eva Límanová) to the maternity hospital. From the moment they say goodbye, the couple can't stop thinking about each other. Their ...

Actors : Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek, Václav Helsus, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska (Magda Vásáryová) awaits in her cell in prison in Breslau (after war Polish Wroclaw) her execution. After death sentence it was ninety nine ...

Actors : Martin Dejdar, Milos Kopecký, Barbora Kodetová, Jana Hlavácová,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

A story about love, dancing and survival, set in the late 40s. Jan Mayer, a young dance-master, arrives in a sanatorium for lung diseases with a serious diagnosis - tuberculosis. But he ...

Actors : Jitka Molavcová, Ivan Vyskocil, Ferdinand Kruta, Petr Kopriva,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and finalizing construction of subway and their lives crossed at certain points of this construction.

Actors : Jan Tríska, Vlastimil Brodský, Iva Janzurová, Míla Myslíková,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer. One of the most bizarre Normalisation films, the lowest point in the work of a good director.

Actors : Jana Brejchová, Eduard Cupák, Ivan Vyskocil, Zlata Adamovská,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young assistant Nada (Zlata Adamovská). She is ...

Actors : Jaroslav Satoranský, Milos Kopecký, Marie Brozová, Zlata Adamovská,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Oldrich Lukásek (Milos Kopecký), a respected Prague solicitor, lets him shifted for health reasons to the small town at the foot-hills. In the local advocate advice bureau impatiently ...

Actors : Jirí Bartoska, Tatána Fischerová, Jirí Adamíra, Zlata Adamovská,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janacek , (1854-1928) , also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his head and his strong character, which could overcome the adversities of fate.

Actors : Josef Somr, Zuzana Bydzovská, Jakub Marek, Jana Riháková,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

A film version of a novel by Jaroslav Havlícek, one of the leading representatives of Czech psychological prose. The film is a romantic story set in a small South-Bohemian town at the end ...

Actors : Tereza Brodská, Karel Roden, Karel Barton, Zdenek Junák,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

A surgeon and a scientist have been secretly trying to transplant the brain from one hog into another. Soon after their first success, they have a golden opportunity to save a human: a 70-...