Best Czech romance movies
A curated collection of popular romance movies from Czechia.

Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.

Anglické jahody (2008)
Anglické jahody (2008)
Angel of Mercy (1993)
Angel of Mercy (1993)
The love story between a young widow and an austrian-hungarian army officer during the First World War.

Falling Tears (2022)
Falling Tears (2022)
Klára is abused in her marriage by her husband Martin. When she meets Adéla, who was also a victim of domestic violence, her life changes. She falls in love with Adéla and decides to leave Martin.

Summer with the gentleman (2019)
Summer with the gentleman (2019)
Anna spends every summer with her husband in a neighborhood a few dozen kilometers outside Prague. They've been together for ages, so their marriage, as is so often the case, has become routine and stereotyped. For a long time, the man has divided his time fairly between drinking with friends in the pub and making ship models of matches in bottles; His wife is virtually invisible to him. Anna spends several days each summer and enjoys regular meetings with her friends and colleagues who visit her in picturesque Central Bohemia on bike tours around Kamýk Castle.

A Christmas Story (2022)
A Christmas Story (2022)
Three families, three festive stories. Uninvited guests, new love, and a quest for the perfect winter. 'A Christmas Story' weaves humor and holiday spirit into a heartwarming journey through the ups and downs of the season.

Martin and Venuse (2013)
Martin and Venuse (2013)
Juggling demanding careers with three kids, Martin and Vendula decide a big change is needed to keep their marriage from sinking.

Say It Through the Dog (2022)
Say It Through the Dog (2022)
Dita, a thirty-year-old woman longing for a baby, receives a young Border Collie from her boyfriend Filip, even though she never wanted a dog. She despises the dog-owning community and loathes dog waste, but her life takes an unexpected turn when she steps in one.

Wings of Christmas (2013)
Wings of Christmas (2013)
The film's protagonists get an opportunity to make a wish. Consequently, their lives take the path they themselves ordained. Several "coincidences" bring them everything they wanted and they have the chance to experience their wishes. We are not only responsible in our lives for everything that we do, but also for everything we say, we think and desire.

Way Home (2021)
Way Home (2021)
With his father's memory waning, a struggling forester must confront the troubling reality about his livelihood and his family's future.

Out of the City (2000)
Out of the City (2000)
A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.

I Love You Heavenly (2017)
I Love You Heavenly (2017)
A timid painter falls for a charming window arranger but his inexperience, her jealous boyfriend and her sudden disappearance pose romantic challenges.

To the Woods (2012)
To the Woods (2012)
Honza Marak has long since abandoned a career in IT and has bought a cottage on the outskirts of a small village, where he’s settled in with his wife Marketa, daughter Anyna and son Sayen. He works in the woods as a forest labourer repairing roads and enclosures, cutting wood to sell and assisting the foresters. Marketa earns a living as a masseuse and alternative healer, making use of various mind-altering plants and mushrooms, which leads to conflict with the old inhabitants and eventually with drug enforcement. Daughter Anyna attends a distant school where her grades deteriorate as she wanders the woods learning from nature rather than from her textbooks.

Boredom in Brno (2003)
Boredom in Brno (2003)
Black-and-white comedy about two young people who want to lose, finally, their innocence, and about life in a very boring city of Brno ...

Garden Store: Suitor (2017)
Garden Store: Suitor (2017)
In late-1950s Czechoslovakia, a young couple's new love is tested by their parents' expectations and the toll of the Communist regime.

Jak se zbavit nevěsty (2016)
Jak se zbavit nevěsty (2016)

All My Tomorrows (2014)
All My Tomorrows (2014)
This romantic comedy, shot in a road-movie style, tells the story of businessman Petr Kraus and his personal transformation. After returning from China, where he supervised the production of clothing for his customers, Petr finds out that the manufacturer had ruined the whole order and so he gets into trouble with the contractor who wants some astronomical compensation for the damage. Peter knows that he should solve the problem quickly, but instead he decides to go on a trip seeking his personal happiness and an escape from responsibility. Fortunately, his close friends, Tereza and Pavel are there to help...

Casting na lásku (2020)
Casting na lásku (2020)

Little Baby Jesus (2013)
Little Baby Jesus (2013)
Charming 60-something José returns to Prague after 30 years living in Mexico, though he was convinced that he would never see his hometown again. He was persuaded by his deeply religious Mexican wife Dolores, who is convinced that only a miracle that might be fulfilled by Prague’s famous Infant Jesus can help their daughter Penelopé get pregnant. And the ideal time for this is Christmas. And when Ruda, his friend from Prague, also insists, José agrees to return to the places he used to know and to the memories that they bring back – including his former Prague love. And it becomes evident that the Infant Jesus is not the only one capable of making miracles come true in Prague. Penelopé’s longed-for conception is definitely not the only one…

Whisper (1996)
Whisper (1996)
Anna, a 16 year-old girl from the sticks, trades her military education for life in the big city Running away to Prague opens a whole new world where she drinks her first cappuccino and meets the kind of people she has only seen in movies.

Island of Freedom (2022)
Island of Freedom (2022)
A man from communist Czechoslovakia unexpectedly meets his childhood love on a flight to Cuba. When they stop over in Canada, he has a plan… but can he trust her?

Dolls (2007)
Dolls (2007)
Iska, Karolína, and Vendula are eighteen-year-old girls who have just graduated from high school. Not wanting to let go of their carefree student lives or their friendship, they plan to hitchhike to Holland, where they've arranged to work on a farm for three months. But Vojta, Iska's little brother and her father's right hand man, joins the trio against their will. He becomes a witness as well as a catalyst for the breakup of their friendship - for the girls recognize that time cannot be stopped. Dolls is a story about searching for love and finding oneself in the volatile time of late adolescence.

Definice lásky (2013)
Definice lásky (2013)

Delight (2013)
Delight (2013)
The film's main theme is obsession. An obsession with love, with art, originality, copying, with success, money and... with oneself. Sooner or later, if we lose our rational upper hand over it and let ourselves be dragged down by it, every obsession leads to destruction. But it is only when being dragged down, in spite of all the cuts and bruises, that we find a unique DELIGHT, if only for a few short moments - and what else is life really about? It is like a drug. What at first seems to be weak and trivial is capable of expanding and growing into a serious problem that can appear to be absolutely incomprehensible and absurd to those who have never experienced anything like it.

Správnej dres (2015)
Správnej dres (2015)

Who's Afraid of the Wolf (2008)
Who's Afraid of the Wolf (2008)
A 6 year-old girl is transfixed by the Little Red Riding Hood story, which her mother dutifully recounts every night. The tale’s themes of identity confusion and betrayal mirror her own story - who her real mother is and a potential love triangle implicating both her parents.

Two Ships (2021)
Two Ships (2021)
Psychologist Eliska contacts musician Martin with a request for him to perform at an event on mental disorders. Their intense relationship ends with Eliska's suicide, which will resolve long-lasting pain without cause. She flew through Martin's life like a spaceship. She left clothes, things, a farewell letter. But also memories, dreams and eternal encouragement to play. She's still with Martin. Like a memoir, as a gratitude for the experience, like a muse.

Scent of Oranges (2019)
Scent of Oranges (2019)
In love with a girl that smells of oranges while in a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek's world is a story about the joy and pain of growing up in the isolated yet beautiful Lusatian Mountains. Here, horses are not expensive specimens of racing stables but beings you should care for and love. Not even that is enough in life though, as Darek finds out nearing the Summer's end, closing his childhood definitely. However, just like any ending, this is a start of something new.

Storyteller (2014)
Storyteller (2014)
A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions and feelings of two injured and beloved women, two women that the aging lothario Mára came between. The theme of the entire book is the degree and limit of love, a right and ability to love several people simultaneously while hurting them at the same time. Written by Czech Film Center
