Based On Short Story Movies

A Czech satirical comedy set around 1900. The inhabitants of the small town of Pětice are excited by a mysterious package that is to be...

Orphan Jirka lives alone with his grandfather by the river. He spends all his free time by the water and does not grow up with the other children....

The story revolves around a young man who buys flowers for his love interest, but he is eventually revealed to be a serial killer who went insane...

In despair, traveling salesman Alfie Zimmer, on the brink of suicide, finds hope documenting graffiti in his notebook. As he grapples with embracing...

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

All is well in the Prendergast household. Or, at least, that is what Jonathan Prendergast would have you believe. But his relationships with his wife...

A story set in Tsarist Russia, set in a manor house. The main character is the mute Gerasim, who lives in a touching friendship with his dog Mumu....

A train derails, leaving 14 people stranded at a small train station in San Francisco, waiting for another train to pick them up. When David (William...

Due to suspicion of BSE (mad cow disease), a herd of cows from a small farmstead is sentenced to be killed. The animals' revolt and try to escape....

A salesman contemplates suicide as he studies a notebook of collected graffiti in a motel. Based on the Stephen King short story "All That You Love...

The dramatization of the Old Prague short story by the writer Ignát Herrmann is an acting concert by Jan Pivec. In this film from 1964, the...

A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.

A morose traveling salesman finds solace by ‘collecting’ odd phrases he finds on motel walls. He believes they may make an interesting...

Based on Jan Neruda's column of the same name, which depicts the troubles of an old straw man. The film is introduced by poet Jaroslav Seifert with a...