Dark Blue World (2001)

Summary: The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.

Release Date: May 17, 2001

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Jan Sverák

Writer: Zdenek Sverák

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Biograf Jan Sverak, Ceská Televize, Dark Blue World, Eurimages, Fandango, Helkon Media, Phoenix Film Investments, Portobello Pictures, The Czech Republic State Fund for Support and Development of Cinematography

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: Czechia, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, United States, Czech Republic

Language: Czech

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 258,771

International: $ 2,122,412

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

Kolya (1996)

Summary: A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.

Release Date: January 24, 1997

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Jan Sverák

Writers: Pavel Taussig

, Zdenek Sverák

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Biograf Jan Sverak, Pandora Cinema, Ceská Televize, Portobello Pictures, Pandora Cinema, CinemArt, Eurimages, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), The Czech Republic State Fund for Support and Development of Cinematography

Distributor: Miramax

Countries: Czechia, United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic

Language: Czech

Domestic: $ 5,770,254

-100 - Metacritic % Gap

Larks on a String (1969)

Summary: Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Jirí Menzel