Movies: Based on short story

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Josef Laufer portrays Egon Erwin Kisch in two daring journalistic adventures: in “Zuřivý reportér,” Kisch goes undercover in a poverty lodging house, uncovers a tattoo’s dark backstory and deciphers a secret telegram hinting at war via the legend of ...

Based on the short film of the same name. While visiting her boyfriend's family home, a young woman learns about a sinister history with his unsettling neighbor and soon all kinds of skeletons come out of the closet....

The dramatization of the Old Prague short story by the writer Ignát Herrmann is an acting concert by Jan Pivec. In this film from 1964, the actor let all registers of his mature acting sound, from outright comical positions to tones sounding with tra...

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Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia....

A group of locals at a liquor store brave a winter storm to check on Richie (Larry Fessenden) a regular customer who hasn't left his house in months and - according to his terrified son - has been slowly "changing shape". What waits for them inside t...

Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop....

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces....

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For the first time ever, we’ve assembled five shorts about death, loneliness, and dismemberment into one big, old-fashioned yukfest. On their own, they would have been too depressing to put out into the world. But together, they form into a Voltron o...

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The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the late 1960s. An ironic image of the times, a black comedy about the ease of manipulating the crowd, about the deceitfulness of slogans, about the phenomen...

The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reuse...

The animation tells about the adventures of the funny character Parasolka on the hunt....

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This is a story about a man who brings about the end of the world, which his compatriots greet with joy and merriment. Screen adaptation of Andrei Platonov's story, created by Kyivnaukfilm studio. The animation masterfully conveys the whimsicality o...

Adapted from the short story " Let's play a game " by the Italian writer Alberto Moravia . It's a strange story between a little girl and her divorced mother They are playing a game and the girl starts to persuade the mother, to provoke her curiosity...

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