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- DirectorJindrich HonzlStarsGeorge VoskovecJan WerichElla Sárková
- DirectorMartin FricStarsHugo HaasTheodor PistekAdina MandlováYoung music composer Viktor Honzl in vain looks for work. He is prevented from committing suicide by a technician of the gasworks who shortly beforehand has disconnected his gas due to past due bills. In the disguise of an older, serious, musical scholar Viktor obtains work in a music publishing house. So he may court Eva, publisher Durdys's daughter, who he likes quite a bit, he recommends to the owner that he also employ his nephew. Understandably, this is he himself, in his every-day form. For Viktor, however, this becomes an extremely complicated situation as he switches in the place of business from the clothes of the uncle and then back again from the clothes of Viktor the nephew.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsGeorge VoskovecJan WerichHelena BusováA Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the building for use as a collectivist dairy. The cooperative flourishes and after a chase/pursuit with the police, pratfalls, slapstick and various crashes, the workers buy out the Milk-Trust.
- DirectorJosef RovenskýStarsJirina StepnickováVladimír BorskýJaroslav VojtaWhen a young woman he loves is promised by her father to an older widower, the youth decides to leave his village and go off to war rather than see this happen.Will the girl's grandmother be able to step in and help?
- DirectorMartin FricStarsPalo BielikZlata HajdúkováAndrej BagarThe story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.
- DirectorHugo HaasStarsHugo HaasBedrich KarenZdenek Stepánek"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.
- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsLída BaarováJaroslava SkorkovskáFrantisek KreuzmannYoung and stunningly beautiful Hana is thrown into the street after her mother catches her stepfather sexually harassing Hana. She finds a new job at a café where she becomes the object of lust for her new boss and the sleazy male customers. Hana, who is still repulsed by men, rejects their offers and expensive gifts. She later falls in love with a young composer Pavel but he soon falls seriously ill and only an expensive medical treatment can save him. Hana starts thinking about accepting the indecent proposal made by one of her customers to get the money needed for Pavel's therapy.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsGeorge VoskovecJan WerichVladimír SmeralOne of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsTheodor PistekFrantisek SmolíkFrantisek KreuzmannA most gifted pupil sharply criticizes the school in a homework essay, and the language teacher is convinced he is the author of a school magazine and expels him. The teachers vote to expel hi, but then they win a contest..
- DirectorMartin FricStarsNatasa GollováOldrich NovýZdenka BaldováAfter several years abroad Michal Nor comes back home to his aunt Pa and his sister Eva who just came back from board school. Aunt Pa is having a birthday soon and Eva knows that she would very much like the recipe for growing a special species of rose that her neighbor Mr. Záhorský had bred. However her aunt has difficult relationship with her neighbors and so Eva wants to steals the recipe. She poses as the neighbors' secretary. By coincidence Michal is also in the house but impersonating an English earl. And so begins a chain of funny accidents and misunderstandings.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOldrich NovýNatasa GollováRaoul SchránilAlois Novák (Oldrich Nový), a minor clerk in a travel agency and the husband of a dowdy housewife Marenka (Natasa Gollová), lives a run-of-the-mill, dull life. In his soul, however, there resides an inextinguishable desire for adventure. And so once a month he poses as a playboy. As the mysterious and wealthy Mr. Kristian he goes to the exclusive Orient Bar where he does not skimp on generous tips and where he platonic-ally seduces beautiful and elegant women. In the salon he speaks of love and the magnificence of exotic lands, which he has supposedly come to know on his wanderings abroad. In reality he has read all of this in the travel agency's brochures.
- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsLída BaarováOldrich NovýRuzena SlemrováMany local dignitaries are gathered at an auction organized by the notary Dr Jan Karas (Oldrich Nový) at Lucín castle to sell off the belongings of the late count. Most interest is aroused by a portrait of a beautiful noble girl, but no-one buys it because it is said to be cursed. Until the young count arrives to decide what to do with the portrait, Karas keeps it at home. Fascinated by the beauty of the girl, Karas spends hours in front of the portrait. Then one day he kisses it and the girl (Lída Baarová) comes to life and steps out of the picture. The girl introduces herself as countess Blanka of Blankenberg, and has no intention of getting back into the canvas.
- DirectorFrantisek CápVáclav KrskaStarsVáclav SovaOtýlie BenískováLída BaarováThis romantic story turns on a stirring infatuation that takes hold of three young people under the influence of Simon, a Prague student. After the study year, 18 year-old Julio returns to his parental home, a little chateau on the Otava river. There he converges with his childhood friend Petr and the young boatman's daughter Klárka. Sharing her beguilement with Simon, who has quickly turned a tranquil summer atmosphere into a relationship drama, is Julio's cousin Rosa.
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsTerezie BrzkováSvetla SvozilováKarel Tresnák"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and good heart than the nobles whom she serves.
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsHana VítováSvatopluk BenesGustav Nezval
- DirectorGustav MachatýStarsHedy LamarrZvonimir RogozAribert MogEva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.