Best Slovak comedy movies

Happy New Year (2019)

Longtime friends and strangers mingle while spending the holiday on the snowy Slovakian mountains with an ample dose of ridiculousness and romance.

Fontána pre Zuzanu 2 (1993)

A Fountain for Susan (1999)

Invalid (2023)

Grumpy handyman Laco loses everything to a group of mobsters. Now wheelchair-bound and with his life spiraling, it's his new friend Gabo, a local Roma who helps Laco see things with a new perspective. Revenge is sweet.

Známi neznámi (2021)

Socialist Zombie Massacre (2014)

A Soviet nerve gas turns Czechoslovakian schoolkids into zombies

Kavej (2024)

Three weddings and one funeral in Eastern-Slovak style.

Avalanche of Love (2022)

Romantic comedy takes place during a wedding day of a bride-to-be Alex, whose big day keeps falling apart. Her neurotic mother controls every step she makes, her step father investigates a non-existing crime and her biological father, a bohemian owner of the hotel where the wedding takes place, is responsible for a missing groom. Chaos in the hotel suits the charming ski instructor Peter who convinces an introverted hotel guest Klara to help him create the most beautiful dinner date ever.

The Candidate (2013)

The story of the film The Candidate takes place during two months of campaigning before a non-specific presidential election in one specific country. The author of the diary entries has no idea for whom he is recording the eavesdropping and enthusiasm for an interesting job in which he follows a bishop, a crazy owner of an advertising agency and a bland presidential candidate with the eloquent name Peter Potôň and an even sweeter-sounding family history, soon give way to disgust and confusion. His diary becomes a file with transcripts of conversations, information about characters and characters, emails, scraps from psychiatric medical records and pictures, which he scribbles at first out of boredom, later because words and rational explanations are no longer enough. The candidate is a political farce, a sad-funny depiction of what happened, is happening, and could very easily happen in this small country.

Loli paradička (2019)

Muzika (2008)

In 1980s CSSR, depressed Martin tries to overcome the feeling of being locked up with jazz music.

Till the Summer Comes (2022)

This romantic comedy maps out the lives of former classmates who, despite their high school days being long past, still regularly meet up. Their stories and lives are different, packed with diverse joys, woes and secrets – secrets that often lead to agitated or humorous moments. Even though each of our characters will soon celebrate their fortieth birthday, they find themselves at diverse stages of life. As we are introduced to them, Christmas is just around the corner, and so is the beginning of a new year, a year which will see their stories become intertwined more than ever before.

Cuky Luky Film (2017)

They could not be more different – Cuky is a wannabe blogger, Luky a star desperate for love. The latter can get the man of her dreams only if she turns an ordinary girl into a beauty pageant queen. The catch is that the ordinary girl is Cuky.

Goldilocks and the Glorious Losers (2022)

Eight chapters on the disaster that ensues after a simple man signs a blank piece of paper when handed a pen.

The Garden (1995)

Jakub's life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows by his relation with a married woman. Breaking out, Jakub realizes the pleasures of the countryside in the old garden of his grandfather. He finds true love with an angel, and encounters various exciting moments of his new free life. Strange visitors arrive, and he wont get back to town anymore.

Pani Dokonalá (2018)

Réveillon (2023)

What was supposed to be a joyful celebration over the dissolution of Czechoslovakia turns chaotic when the Varchal family discovers that their father betrayed both country and family by working for the secret police. The family members turn against each other.

Smolu nosíš ty, láska (2023)

Simona: Donaha! (2022)

Jakub Zitron Ťapák: Ruku na srdce (2023)

Speech impediments, public toilets, inappropriate thoughts and new parenthood. These are also the topics of the stand-up show of Jakub Zitron Ťapák, who likes to talk about things that often just come to mind, but out of decency we don't say them out loud. It is tough and uncompromising, but also sensitive and empathetic. In short, it's from the heart!

...kone na betóne (1995)

Vojtech (2015)

Riaditeľky zemegule (2024)

Welcome Home, Brother! (2022)

Jááánošííík po tristo rokoch (2016)

Radošinské naivné divadlo (1993)

Mŕtvola musí zomrieť (2011)

Superžena (2022)

Mátohy rárohaté (1993)

Rivers of Babylon (1998)

Dark satire about bare-knuckled capitalism in the immediate post-Cold War era. Set just as the Communist government is collapsing, the film focuses on the brutish Racz, the handyman in a Bratislava hotel. Knowing that his job is insured for life, Racz turns off the building's heat and demands food, money, and sex to have it restored. The film is narrated by a pimp named Urban who explains that people in the former Czechoslovakia were so used to being abused that they simply put up with Racz's corruption. By the end of the film, Racz's fortunes have changed considerably. Instead of being a lowly worker, he is now a ruthless and wealthy businessman, unafraid to kill or kidnap those who get in his way.