Best Czech thriller movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch thriller films from Czechia, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
The Bourne Identity 2002
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
80The Brothers Grimm 2005
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
61The Devil Conspiracy 2023
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.
57Restore Point 2023
It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambitious, young detective the opportunity to solve a case of a murdered couple when the restoration team is able to bring one of them back.
64The Painted Bird 2019
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
74Waves 2024
At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.
80Fatherland 1994
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
64Gangster Ka 2015
A film based on a book by Jaroslav Kmenta tells the story of a mafioso who got rich by tax fraud of billions of crowns in transactions with petroleum products and who later tried to gain control of the state-owned petroleum concern. The main character is the gangster Radim Kraviec (Hynek Cermák). He was always capable of violence, but when his father is abducted and killed by a competing mafia, he is changed into a murdering monster.
72Intimate Enemy 2018
Andrej, a programmer, is developing his smart house project. To perfect his program, he moved with his wife Zuzana to a test house. He strives to introduce a bonus into the program - care for his wife. Suddenly someone else, someone mysterious takes control of the program. The idyll of a perfect life is replaced by a nightmare and a struggle for survival.
63Nightline 2022
Under Czech law, most murders can be statute-barred in as little as 20 years. Radio presenter Eva gets involved in one case that is time-barred almost irretrievably. On her nightly show, she gives space to the mysterious Radek, who has returned to Prague after exactly twenty years.
69Gangster Ka: African 2015
After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague, Czech mobster Radim "Kácko" Kraviec flees first to Seychelles and then to South Africa where he continues with his criminal endeavours. However, his illicit activities cannot go unnoticed forever.
75Godfather's Story 2013
Godfather's story is the story of the greatest of Czech post-revolutionary 'entrepreneurs'. His activities often crossed the edge of the law, and his life ended bullet assassin.
73Amnesty 2019
Inspired by true events of the 1989 Czech and Slovak Velvet Revolution and Václav Havel's controversial release of 23000 prisoners. In addition to the story of three families affected by communist persecution, the film Amnesty also deals with the uprising of prisoners in Leopoldov, which required military intervention. The uprising was preceded by a broad amnesty granted by Václav Havel in January 1990, just a few days after his election as Czechoslovak president.
70#annaismissing 2023
Anna is a controversial influencer and best known for her provocative online content, but suddenly she goes silent on her social media profiles and mysteriously stops posting any updates. When 15-year-old Nina finds a half-naked photo of Anna on her dad's phone, she decides to track down the missing influencer.
72Toys in the Attic 2009
In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Prince Charming, lazy Teddy Bear and the plasticine creature Schubert. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the Land of Evil, her pals set out to rescue her.
67The Hastrman 2018
A strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human.
65Innocence 2011
The fall from the top to the absolute bottom can be very fast. A renowned physician, also a beloved father and husband, is accused of a serious felony. Innocence is hard to prove, especially when in desperation to try to save oneself, we sacrifice the secrets that should have remained hidden forever.
67Miracle 2022
A young novice sneaks out of her convent to deal with a matter that cannot be delayed.
61Lady of Csejte 2015
Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.
61Shadowplay 2022
Accepting responsibility for his wife's murder after he has left her, Jan starts pursuing the criminal himself to make sure the culprit doesn't avoid punishment.
58The Prague Orgy 2019
In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed by secret police. Once in Prague, he meets Sisovsky‘s flamboyant and wild ex-wife Olga who is in possession of the manuscripts. The evolving relationship between the hot-headed Olga and Nathan is a confrontation between two worlds - the repressed East and free West. But, Olga won‘t give up the manuscripts to Nathan so easily…
59Blood Moon 2023
Two men, one in a stolen vehicle and the other drunk, drive along a backroad to avoid city traffic. Suddenly both cars collide with an SUV and they are unwittingly drawn into a game of survival with a deranged rifle-wielding assassin out for blood.
59Vendeta 2011
In a deserted clearing, a forest ranger finds the lifeless body of a man. He manages to revive him, but the man remembers nothing. He doesn't know how he got into the forest or why he is covered in blood, and instead of answering questions, he runs away. The ranger sets out after him and gradually discovers that the man is involved in a bloody vendetta, which he may have initiated himself and in which his fourteen-year-old daughter plays an important role.
74Walking Too Fast 2010
The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional destruction wreaked by totalitarianism.
67The Slave Huntress 2007
Tracked down and traded as lesbian slaves- what does the future hold for the beautiful women who are prey to The Slave Huntress and her depraved sapphic desires? Can they escape her prison of young women before being sold to the highest bidder?
56The Cage 2019
She was once the wife of an important man, lived in a beautiful house in Hradčany, and was friends with the famous race car driver Eliška Junková. Today, however, she lives somewhere on the outskirts of Prague in a ground-floor apartment overlooking the courtyard and the street, alone and abandoned by practically everyone. Her husband died a long time ago, and her life now consists only of regular meetings with the postwoman, who brings her pension and her favorite motoring magazines, and regular help at the rectory and the local church. She occasionally cooks and bakes for Father Jan, and with her characteristic willingness, she also does his laundry and ironing. However, one of the last certainties in her life collapses unexpectedly quickly—Father Jan is transferred somewhere to Hradec Králové and is replaced by a young priest who is used to doing everything himself. At that moment, a smiling young man with dark glasses and a flower in his hand enters Květa Galová's life.
64Daria 2020
When Daria disappears after their first date, Marek finds her in a psychiatric hospital. Everything might be part of a disturbing game played by powerful pharmaceutical companies, though the truth may be more frightening than either of them realize.
55Metanol 2018
83Into the Darkness 2023
What led a former top scientist to rob a bank and hold a dozen hostages? Czech Television's crime thriller based on Martin Goffa's novel "The Little Girl" is squeezed into two environments - the interior of a robbed bank with hostages and the interior of a crisis management car, from where the police communicate with the mysterious attacker and try, like him, to play for time and find out more about him. The flashbacks also tell the story of the attacker's daughter Karin from the recent past, gradually revealing a connection with what is happening in the current storyline.
66Rules of Lies 2006
33-year-old Roman decides to tackle his drug addiction by undergoing group therapy as part of a community holed up on an isolated farm in the Šumava mountains. Twelve people, men and women of varying ages and social status, voluntarily subject themselves to a tough regime under the supervision of three therapists. Many of them have stared death in the face already – overdoses, suicide attempts, and aggression heightened by the use of hard drugs, outwardly affecting even the strongest of them. Each brings something of his past into the group, which he has to experience again, both for himself and for those assembled. Past anguish, wrongs and guilt give rise to new problems: in this thickening atmosphere of suspicion and lies, who can still be trusted? This intimate psychological drama deliberately sets out to break up the tight narrative form through retrospectives in which we learn about the past life of each individual.
70Poslouchej 2020
A young couple who goes on a trip to bring their relationship the new energy because it seems to have been exhausted and ruined.
52Labyrinth 2012
Imagine that right now, directly beneath you, someone is lost underground and desperately calling for help. A group of four people are trying to find the legendary catacombs of old Prague, but their expedition into the labyrinth of medieval corridors turns into a fight for their lives. Which is more dangerous: an inaccurate map or an ancient secret?
65Sold at Dawn 2010
In an isolated cabin, a gorgeous sexy trader enslaves beautiful young women with the plan to sell them abroad. In order to break their wills, she manipulates them with domination.
76The Slave Huntress 2 2009
Our new Slave Huntress is on the prowl and has 2 beautiful teen sisters locked firmly in her sights. She cunningly tracks them, captures them and prepares them to later sell them. As pony-girls and lesbian slaves they learn complete sexual obedience to their Mistress whose domination controls their every waking moment. They are seduced as a reward by reveling in her sapphic skills of pleasuring and punished by her whipping if failing to meet her exacting standards. The Slave Huntress enjoys most the challenge of turning straight women into her lesbian play-toys. Their desire to escape is made greater each day.
68Vaterland: A Hunting Logbook 2004
Returning to their ancestral lands, descendants of a formerly aristocratic family hunt for mythical creatures that occupy the nearby wilderness.
70Raluca 2014
Former cop Filip Marold doesn't want to be reminded of some things from his past. But others remind him... He works as a private detective, sleeps with his secretary and spies on people for money. All up to the moment when he meets seductive Raluca and his life turns upside down. Is it just a coincidence? Fate? Or has someone set a trap? Even in his wildest dreams he wouldn't imagine the things that were about to happen. Things that involve sex, murder, the big reveal and a harsh reminder of that damn past...
58Normal 2009
Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten's mental derangement, agrees to defend a man who terrorized Germany between 1929 and 1931. In studying the case and meeting with the intelligent, cold-blooded manipulator, the young idealist's values become warped.
58Oko ve zdi 2009
The aging couple might have been enjoying a gracious autumn of their lives had it not been for a crack in the wall that revealed a secret that changed their lives forever. A secret that became a nightmare. A secret of the past... Can the past kill? A loving couple enters the abandoned house she has chosen as a meeting place one wet and rainy morning. It could have been an ordinary date. On inspection, they enter a room with only a small window and one door. Suddenly the door closes... an eye watches them through a crack in the wall. That eye doesn't bode well!
70Lifeline 2021
Petr, a top cardiac surgeon, is a very reserved and introverted man. His 21-year-old daughter Lucie has a congenital heart defect, and Petr decides to operate on her himself during a scheduled surgery. After the operation, they embark on an adventurous trip to a beautiful Nordic island. Here, they have enough time to reconnect with each other. One day, however, Lucie suddenly collapses in the middle of the wilderness.
56Chained Heat 2001: Slave Lovers 2001
There is no possibility of escape from slavery in the New Territories: the choice is simple, the mine slave mines or love slave.
55Repulse 2021
The lives of two families with nothing in common —other than heavy emotional dysfunction — randomly collide and spiral into a web of abduction, filth, terror, and death in this disturbing and unique knockout.
47Run with Fear 2005
A medieval nun's convent is the only refuge for women trying to escape from Turkish raiders looking for slaves. But the beautiful mother superior is actually in league with the raiders and her convent is no refuge but a secret market for the beauties who also succumb to her wild desires.
58Poslední výkřik 2012
A serial killer is on the loose in the small town of Petrovice, murdering students at the local high school. The police are searching for the perpetrator, but they can't find any clues. Everything points to the masked killer targeting Karin Tomečková, whose parents were brutally murdered eight months ago. The murders are increasing, as are the number of suspects. The police are trying to catch the killer before it's too late. The killer could be anywhere.
60Absence 2023
Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far from his troubled family life in Tehran, to research his father’s past. Visiting the flat where his father, a communist expatriate, lived 50 years ago, in the times of Czechoslovakia, he is stopped by a policewoman investigating a recent accident. The current resident of the flat, Vladimir, who turns out to be Rouzbeh’s half-brother, has fallen out the window. Discovering hidden corners of Vladimir’s life and getting closer to his soul, Rouzbeh learns a shocking truth about his father, totally contradicting the image of a hero he had about him. This puts him on the path which led to Vladimir's fall from the window.
60At Your Own Risk 2008
A son obsessed with solving the murky death of his father arranges a rafting expedition down the same treacherous river where the tragedy took place.
47Cold Sunday 2012
A seemingly harmless fit of jealousy between two lovers brings about an increasingly sinister entanglement of events. Hidden secrets are revealed, sly lies are decoded, and eventually the characters begin to show their true colors. In this thriller, gripping until the last minute, nothing is as it appears to be at first sight
52Occamova břitva 2013
A married couple unexpectedly find themselves witness to a murder. The perpetrators pay them to remain silent, but also turn them into the main suspects of the crime. The more the two try to distance themselves from the case, the more entangled they become, and so does their relationship
55Ruchoth Raoth 2017
50Taxi 121 2016
Taxi 121 is a Czech thriller inspired by real events from 2014, when a serial killer took the lives of three Prague taxi drivers. Officially, the police attribute the murders to a single perpetrator, who remains unknown to the public. The tragedy was the impetus for the making of this thriller, which quickly draws the viewer into the story and lets them experience a whole range of emotions, from fear to courage to hope. The film not only reveals to the viewer a possible motive for the murders, but above all offers an intense story of a young married couple, Matěj and Lucie, who do not give up even when they have practically no future ahead of them...
46Calm in the Canopy 2024
A wealthy middle-aged man at the airport witnesses a tiny incident involving an unknown, perhaps Arab, young man and airport staff. After the young man is confronted directly at the airport toilets, he feels himself subject to an indefinable but increasingly serious sense of danger. The fear of the evil that had, as it were, encircled the man since then, gradually becomes an obsession. The urgent desire to see the evil, to confront it and destroy it.
40Edgemen 2011
A businessman unspools a web of espionage and corruption when his bid for a major construction project attracts the attention of an underground network.
38Cesta peklem 1995
A dramatic action film about stuntmen who perform the most dangerous stunts in the film world. One day, however, one of them is struck by a family tragedy in which his son dies. The man cannot overcome this tragedy and ends up in a psychiatric ward. Will he be able to return with the help of his friends?
40A Soul to Redeem 2017
For an experienced police commissioner, solving a single murder would be routine, but the killer isn't satisfied with just one victim, and it's not easy to fairly judge who is the victim and who is the killer in this case.
37Temné místo 2024
Six young friends are shocked by the tragic fate of two children who allegedly disappeared while wandering around a forbidden place. The oldest of them, Jarda, is the most affected by the situation, as he knew the father of the missing children. He begins to investigate further and is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. He confides in his friend Tomáš, who advises him to avoid the place. Despite his warning, Jarda continues his search, and as soon as he enters the abandoned building, he disappears. The rest of the group now faces a difficult choice: should they save their friend, even if it could cost them their lives?
37Woods 2015
A struggling writer believes a secret from his past has come back to haunt him. Paranoia and guilt take over as he tries to figure out who or what has been plaguing him with increasingly violent attacks.
36Falling 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.
30Darkness 2009
A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
20Holčičky na život a na smrt 1996
Children's games will affect the lives of two young women years later.
20Acidic Anna 2022
Acidic Anna is an upcoming experimental horror film directed by Thomas Cam. The film is about Anna a girl who has found herself in a mysterious place unknowingly summing up an evil force.
10Čepel smrti 2009
It seems that a serial killer has begun to wreak havoc in the city. Anyone could be behind the mask—who will be next?
10Playback 2015
A torn up mother listens to a recorded confession of the perpetrator who killed her daughter.
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