Juraj Herz

Set in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. (imdb)

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed. (imdb)

An romantic comedy by Juraj Herz.

Five friends experience love with one beautiful girl, but she loves only one of them. (imdb)

A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Julie is a bankrupt merchant's daughter who as the only one of the three daughters chooses to save her father's life by going to the Haunted Wood's Castle where she meets Netvor. He wants to kill her, but her beauty prevents him from that. Although she is forbidden to see him she starts to love him and the love rescues him from his curse. (imdb)

Herzs directorial debut Sberne Surovosti/The Junk Shop (1965) was originaly meant as part of the famous czech new wave manifesto Pearls of the Deep. Shorts based on a collection of Bohumil Hrabal's stories by the same name.

In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines. (imdb)

A doctor (Marek) is shocked when his beloved nurse (Mima) signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor makes him believe that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, but does that really work? (imdb)

A mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family's lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938. (imdb)

Michail Forman, a successful business manager, gets stuck in a traffic jam. The weather is lousy, his car breaks down and he forgot to buy a present for his 5th wedding anniversary. He jumps out of his car and finds some shelter in the entrance of a shopping mall. Attracted by a little girl he enters the mall, but once he's in, time and reality are no longer something to rely on... (Soeren Ney)

Martin, a poor student, volunteers to protect the princess who seems to be suffering from some sort of curse and who disappears during the night every night. Eight volunteers have tried to protect her before him and have not returned, will he be the one to succeed?

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus, the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. Zuzana, the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. (NFA.cz)

The young married couple - photographer Marie and civil engineering student Petr - live in a cozy attic flat with their four-year-old daughter Maruska. Petr sometimes goes out for a beer with other students and one night brings a couple of them - hungry and loud - back home with him in the early morning hours, much to Marie's discontent. But the two young people have a strong and loving relationship and when Maruska suddenly falls ill they are very distressed. (NFA.cz)

A Holocaust drama made by a director who was himself, as a Jew, a prisoner in the German concentration camp of Ravensbrueck during the Second World War. (imdb)

The romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at a carnival who seems familiar. He thinks he has seen her in an old castle where the villagers believe only the old countess and her sister live. It is in their salon in town that he meets the girl again and learns her history. (imdb)