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Toyen (2005)
Character: Toyen / Commentary (voice)
Jan Nemec, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave, creates an original portrait of one of the most provocative artists of the 20th century: Toyen (Marie Cerminova). As a female artist, Toyen broke through the male-dominated art world to create paintings and drawings often erotic in nature. She co-founded the surrealist movement in her native Prague, survived the Nazis and the Communists, maintained artistic and personal relationships with artists Jindrich Heisler (whom she hid during WWII) and Jindrich Styrsky.
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Nevěrné hry (2003)
Character: N/A
The film tells the story of Eva, a pianist who followed her husband, musician and composer Peter, to a small village on the Slovak-Hungarian border. While Peter enjoys the peace and quiet of composing in the local environment, Eva searches in vain for a career as a performer, feeling disconnected not only from her family but also from her familiar Prague surroundings and friends. Unfaithful Plays is an intimate love drama about love, infidelity, human failures and finding oneself.
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Miss D (2012)
Character: Gina
A call from an ex-lover threatens to rekindles memories from a time far gone by for D - a lonely cross-dresser trying to come to terms with her new image.
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Zpráva o putování studentů Petra a Jakuba (2000)
Character: Jakubova nevěsta
Petr studies law in Prague, Jakub studies philosophy there. They are the best of friends until their holiday trip to Slovakia is crossed by a Romani young man named Imro. Imro is in love with Eržika, who is guilty of breaking an ancient tradition by breaking her vow of loyalty. The vow is the law. In a fit of jealousy, Imro kills his beloved. Two punishments await him. One from the majority "white" society, the other from his own Roma community. Petr and Jakub watch Imro's tragic fate from close proximity and their views on the matter of justice and punishment begin to diverge diametrically. The academic controversy eventually escalates into a fundamental conflict of life attitudes that almost destroys their friendship. Whose side is the truth on?
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Houpačka (1990)
Character: N/A
A 17-year-old student unexpectedly gives up her newborn for adoption and must confront the emotional fallout, family tensions and societal shifts of the tumultuous post-revolution era as she seeks to understand her choices and find her own way in life.
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Eliška má ráda divočinu (1999)
Character: Eliška
A sensual summer comedy for discerning audiences. In a small town with a nostalgic swimming pool, a variety bar, and a pink pastry shop, a couple in love, an aging playboy, a lifeguard, and a variety artist named Marčélo and his much younger wife Eliška are constantly fighting. Their encounters are full of jealousy and sensual love. Their relationship is disrupted by Marčélo's son Mican and, in particular, the sensual barmaid Hedvika. However, there is also the strange director Motýlek, who is in town to shoot a film.
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Chvilková slabost (2013)
Character: N/A
Do you think you are happily divorced? Then beware of momentary weakness. Andrea and Tony have been divorced for some time; she is forty, he is a little older. He recently married Jana, who is considerably younger and about to give birth. Andrea is dating a serious and wealthy man named Karel, and they are planning to get married soon. Tony and Andrea have an eighteen-year-old daughter, Lucka, who loves both her parents equally. The former spouses meet at a snow-covered cottage because it is time to divide their...
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Noční hovory s matkou (2003)
Character: Mother
Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech director Jan Nemec as he attempts to engage in a dialogue with his deceased mother. While alive, Nemec's mother had a troubled relationship with her son; this rumination seems to be Nemec's public platform for coming to terms with unresolved familial issues. The director embellishes his film by linking personal events with 20th century history.
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Z města cesta (2002)
Character: N/A
A poetic documentary about different sides of nature and city life.
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Chyťte doktora (2007)
Character: redaktorka Marcela
Gynecologist Michal is caught cheating and must deal with a tricky, almost classic, love triangle situation. In the comedy Catch the Doctor!, he will deal with it in several different ways. After his attempt to save his marriage does not go quite as planned, he returns to the beginning of the film, to the point of one decision, and starts over. Differently. A total of three times, viewers will return to the same place on the same day with the main character, and three times they will be amazed at what can happen.
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Anděl Exit (2000)
Character: Jana
A drug dealer named Mikes, who lives in Prague and longs to escape his own clichéd life.
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1989: Z dopisů psaných přes železnou oponu (2019)
Character: Mom (voice)
An original film testimony about the time 30 years ago. Peter Kořínek is 21 years old, hailing from Pardubice. He listens to underground bands, reads samizdat books, and faces school troubles due to his long hair. He dreams of emigration. It is the beginning of 1989, and there is no indication that he will experience freedom in communist Czechoslovakia.
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Valeria (2016)
Character: Carmen
Discharged from the hospital after a partial face transplant, Eva is consumed by curiosity about her donor, with whom she feels increasingly connected.
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Čerte, tady straší! (1998)
Character: Luzmila
The devil and the water sprite, typical Czech characters, play the leading roles in today's fairy tale. They were invited to the castle by Lord Nesvít himself to help him win the hand of Lady Luzmila from the Cloud Kingdom. However, Nesvít is not so much interested in her as in her gold. But Luzmila is cut from the same cloth. And so the devil and the water sprite are there to find out who has a black soul and who needs help. But in the process, their magic causes a lot of confusion...
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Kozy léčí (2017)
Character: N/A
A new television film from a series that always focuses on the complex fate of a prominent female personality. Under the title Holky šikovný (Clever Girls), stories will be created in which women - screenwriters, dramaturges, directors, and actresses - will play a significant role. Zuzana Stivínová, in the lead role of this television film, struggles with a dangerous illness. She moves to the countryside with her entire family to raise goats and change her lifestyle. Her great role model is an elderly woman, a prominent rural authority figure, who convinces her that goat's milk will help her the most.
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Baťa, první globalista (2019)
Character: Commentary (voice)
Peter Kerekes’ documentary focuses on the Bata shoe empire and the quest to find the next generation of shoe makers
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Případ dvou básníků (2019)
Character: Róza
This time, Captain Vašátko of the criminal police and Horác, a painter, bohemian, and amateur detective, will be searching for the murderer of the author of so-called computer poems. Kristián Vích is a mathematician approaching forty. He is very popular among his colleagues. He is secretly dating Tereza, the wife of his rude colleague. The lovers are planning Tereza's divorce and a life together. However, Vích's despotic mother has other plans for her son and a favorite among her colleagues. One day, Kristián's body is found floating in the river, and the perpetrator is, of course, unknown...
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Kousek nebe (2005)
Character: Dorota
A story of love, friendship, and solidarity, aspects of life that allows us to live with dignity even at the most difficult of times. Set within the walls of a Communist prison of the 1950s, a tale unfolds of a young couples' fragile love. An angry young man Lubos always felt defiance toward everything around him, and eventually this trait lands him in court. The verdict is clear and the punishment long and hard. But even in prison Lubos is unable to tame his love of jazz or the eternally blazing flame of rebellion he carries inside. There is no place on earth where love cannot grow. Lubos meets Dana in prison. Out of solidarity and support, their fellow prisoners hatch a small rebellion to help them fulfill their love - a love which has appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Pasti, pasti, pastičky (1998)
Character: Lenka
After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.
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Spaceman (2024)
Character: Concierge
Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.
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Anděl Páně (2005)
Character: klíčnice Francka
An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it.
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Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
Character: Vampire Council #1
Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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Návrat idiota (1999)
Character: Marta (voice)
Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a pure person and thus, is regarded as an idiot. He becomes involved in various love and family conflicts. It is because he hasn't experienced much of the "real" life that he is able to perceive human relationships in their genuineness.
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Její tělo (2023)
Character: Trenérka
A Czech high diver's Olympic dreams are shattered when she suffers a devastating injury while training. Forced to leave the sport she loves, she follows a photographer friend into the world of nude modeling, ultimately reinventing herself as an adult film actress. Inspired by the true story of diving champion Andrea Absolonová.
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نبودن (2023)
Character: N/A
Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far from his troubled family life in Tehran, to research his father’s past. Visiting the flat where his father, a communist expatriate, lived 50 years ago, in the times of Czechoslovakia, he is stopped by a policewoman investigating a recent accident. The current resident of the flat, Vladimir, who turns out to be Rouzbeh’s half-brother, has fallen out the window. Discovering hidden corners of Vladimir’s life and getting closer to his soul, Rouzbeh learns a shocking truth about his father, totally contradicting the image of a hero he had about him. This puts him on the path which led to Vladimir's fall from the window.
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Martin a Venuše (2013)
Character: N/A
Juggling demanding careers with three kids, Martin and Vendula decide a big change is needed to keep their marriage from sinking.
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Černí baroni (1992)
Character: N/A
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black barons". Although it might seem like a political satire and it's mostly funny, it shows the reality and the absurdity of military service under the communist regime. Based on a novel by Miloslav Svandrlik.
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Occamova břitva (2013)
Character: Jana Vavrušková
A married couple unexpectedly find themselves witness to a murder. The perpetrators pay them to remain silent, but also turn them into the main suspects of the crime. The more the two try to distance themselves from the case, the more entangled they become, and so does their relationship
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O rodičích a dětech (2008)
Character: Mother
On a walk through Prague, a 40-year-old son's conversations with his septuagenarian father reveal complexities that both strain and sustain their bond.
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Po strništi bos (2017)
Character: N/A
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city boy was used to.
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My Sunny Maad (2021)
Character: (voice)
When Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea what kind of life awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor of the family she is about to integrate into. A liberal grandfather, an adopted child who is highly intelligent and Freshta, who would do anything to escape her husband's violent grip.
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Past (2020)
Character: Jiřina Štěpničková
In 1951, the well-known Czech actress Jiřina Štěpničková receives a letter from Austria from director František Čáp, who has recently emigrated. He invites her to the West and promises her roles in theater and film. She decides to seize the opportunity and flee. Together with a small group of people and her young son Jirka, she entrusts herself to a smuggler and embarks on a risky journey across the border. But something goes wrong. They are caught. Everything had been planned in advance. The smuggler himself is a member of the StB. But that's only the beginning.
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Electra (2023)
Character: Clytemnestra
Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with imagination and hidden dreams. Isolated in her fantasy world full of made-up busty dolls, plastic men’s body parts, juicy strawberries and dentist tools, she builds up her own relationships with her body and sexuality. Diving deeper and deeper into her childhood memories, she experiences again rebellion against her mother and mixed feelings for her father. Electra has to go through the most painful memories to let her suppressed feelings come out. In the end, she is ready to reveal what has really happened during her 10th birthday.
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