Famu Movies

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces.

A tram pasted with posters travels through Prague. The mounted loudspeakers invite passers-by to a series of concerts of Giuseppe Verdi's...

A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.

In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home...

An absurd comedy about terrorism in the Czech Republic.

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

A look at an over-loaded freight train departing from Prague.

Final train station turnes out to be something much more different...

A character from a musical film falls into the real world in this short, predating similar films by Woody Allen (The Purple Rose of Cairo) and...

A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.

A film about filmmaking.

The new pub patron is advised to take a stew. He asks for its recipe from the hostess, but she refuses. Then he sneaks into the kitchen and peeks...