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Slovak-Language Films

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Top 54 Slovak-language films from a catalog of 54, ranked by TMDB rating.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Country↕	Overview↕
Pictures of the Old World	1,972	Dušan Hanák	Documentary	8.1	25	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martinček - whose pictures of the inhabitants of the Liptov region in central Slovakia, encompassed by the Tatra mountains, distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images. Dušan Hanák's continuation of these photographs takes the shape of a poetic visual essay, capturing more comprehensive vignettes of their isolated human experiences.
The Garden	1,995	Martin Šulík	Comedy, Drama	7.3	40	Slovak	Czech Republic	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.
Pacho, the Brigand of Hybe	1,976	Martin Ťapák	Comedy	7.3	10	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with each troublesome situation with the help of his cleverness and wit.
If I Had a Gun	1,971	Štefan Uher	Drama, Comedy	7.3	10	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
The Sun in a Net	1,963	Štefan Uher	Drama	7.2	35	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.
Dragon's Return	1,968	Eduard Grečner	Drama	7.2	20	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Leaps, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He lost his wife, his home, and his freedom due to false accusations. After years he returns to his native village. Putting his own life to risk, he saves a herd of cows from a forest fire in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps him to win back the friendship of the locals.
The Shop on Main Street	1,965	Ján Kadár	Drama, War	7.1	222	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.
The Feather Fairy	1,985	Juraj Jakubisko	Fantasy, Family	7.1	39	Slovak	Austria	A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed and evil desires.
Birds, Orphans and Fools	1,969	Juraj Jakubisko	Drama, Fantasy, Comedy	7.1	35	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	In the aftermath of war, two men and a woman begin acting more like children than adults, leading to tragedy.
Dar	1,967	Eugen Šinko	N/A	7.1	16	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	Promotion of free blood donation.
The Killing of a Journalist	2,022	Matt Sarnecki	Documentary, Crime	7.1	10	Slovak	Czech Republic	A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Their deaths inspire the biggest protests in Slovakia since the fall of communism. The story takes an unexpected turn when a source leaks the secret murder case file to the murdered journalist’s colleagues. It includes the computers and encrypted communications of the assassination’s alleged mastermind, a businessman closely connected to the country’s ruling party. Trawling these encrypted messages, journalists discover that their country has been captured by corrupt oligarchs, judges, and law enforcement officials. A reckoning awaits.
Eva Nová	2,015	Marko Škop	Drama	7	10	Slovak	Slovakia	Eva would do anything to regain the love of the one she hurt the most - her son. She is a recovered alcoholic but decades ago she was a famous actress.
The Teacher	2,016	Jan Hřebejk	Drama, Comedy	6.9	104	Slovak	Czech Republic	The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
Down to the Cellar	1,983	Jan Švankmajer	Animation, Horror, Mystery	6.9	32	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.
The Seven Ravens	2,015	Alice Nellis	Family, Fantasy	6.8	23	Slovak	Czech Republic	The story of a young woman who takes it upon herself to save her brothers and rid them of a curse which they were put under by their mother.
Invalid	2,023	Jonáš Karásek	Comedy, Drama	6.8	21	Slovak	Slovakia	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.
The Deserter and the Nomads	1,968	Juraj Jakubisko	Drama, War	6.7	14	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	An apocalyptic story of three wars in three film tales encompassing the end of the WWI,WWII, as well as a vision of the world destroyed by nuclear weapons. This film was honored at the film festivals in Venice and Sorrento. Immediately after that the copy with Italian subtitles was locked in a safe as evidence of the anti-communist activities of the director, who used real footage of the Soviet invasion.
King Thrushbeard	1,984	Miloslav Luther	Family, Fantasy, Romance	6.6	20	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck to no avail. So, he hatches a plot with her father in which the princess is married to him, in disguise as a beggar, so he can teach her lessons about humility and compassion.
The Candidate	2,013	Jonáš Karásek	Comedy	6.6	11	Slovak	Czech Republic	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.
The Boxer and Death	1,963	Peter Solan	Drama	6.5	10	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of his friend and co-prisoner leads to open revolt. The film brings a new view of human degradation during fascism by a tragic story of one man whose only chance for survival is to accept the rules of an unequal game.
Happy New Year	2,019	Jakub Kroner	Comedy, Romance	6.4	15	Slovak	Slovakia	Longtime friends and strangers mingle while spending the holiday on the snowy Slovakian mountains with an ample dose of ridiculousness and romance.
Father	2,025	Tereza Nvotová	Drama	6.4	11	Slovak	Slovakia	The life of a man after he experiences forgotten baby syndrome, unintentionally leaving his infant daughter in the back seat of his car.
The Auschwitz Report	2,021	Peter Bebjak	Drama, History, War	6.3	84	Slovak	Czech Republic	This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning, they manage to escape. While the inmates they had left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, the two men are driven on by the hope that their evidence could save lives.
Broken Promise	2,009	Jiří Chlumský	Drama, History, War	6.2	14	Slovak	Czech Republic	Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.
Miki	2,024	Jakub Kroner	Thriller	6	18	Slovak	Slovakia	In the 1990s post-communist Slovakia, former woods worker Miki takes his chances to start doing business at a local level and climb up the ladder to become the biggest mafia boss in the country.
The Stop on Main Street	2,013	Peter Zákutanský	Documentary	6	10	Slovak	Slovakia	"A film after film". A director goes to Sabinov, where the Oscar-winning film The Shop on Main Street was shot almost fifty years ago. He meets people connected to the film as well as others who remind him of various characters. A tribute to a particular film as well as to film as such.
Salt & Gold	1,983	Martin Hollý	Fantasy, Family	5.9	18	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	A fairy-tale about the power of love. The old king Pravoslav feels it is time to entrust the rule over his kingdom to one of his three daughters - the one that loves him the most. The youngest, Maruška, fails her father's expectations about proving how deep her love him is. He misunderstands her and she is made to leave the castle. She faces many dangers on the way to her loved one, the Salt Prince.
The Millennial Bee	1,983	Juraj Jakubisko	Comedy, Drama, History	5.9	10	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	A family saga taking place mostly in a small Slovak village over a period of thirty years (1887–1917). The first part captures the life of Martin Pichandu in the development of his craft, masonry; in the second part, his son is center stage living in a period of socio-political crisis, which ultimately results in the first World War. After originally airing on Czechoslovakian television in 1983 as a four-part 226-minute mini-series, this production received a 163-minute theatrical release in 1984.
Známi neznámi	2,021	Zuzana Marianková	Comedy	5.8	14	Slovak	Slovakia	A close-knit group of Czech and Slovak friends gathers in a Prague apartment to ring in the New Year, sharing laughs and memories. When a seemingly innocent wager forces them to place their phones on the table and read every message and call aloud, hidden secrets emerge and long-standing bonds are tested in one unforgettable night.
The Chambermaid	2,023	Mariana Čengel Solčanská	Drama, History, Romance	5.8	12	Slovak	Czech Republic	Just before World War 1, the fifteen-year-old poverty-stricken Anne from a small Slovak town is sent to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family. She meets Resi, the daughter of a noble family, who was born and raised to be an adornment and a trophy – of the house, of her family, of Austria-Hungary. Anne and Resi, two girls born in the same year, but at the other ends of the social ladder, find a soulmate in each other. They become best friends, lovers and the only light in a male-dominated world.
Little Feather	2,016	Petr Svoboda	Drama	5.8	10	Slovak	Czech Republic	Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage...
Money or Love	2,011	Jakub Kroner	Drama, Romance	5.7	36	Slovak	Slovakia	A car thief driven by a love of cash finds his priorities shift when he falls for a college student but his conversion has dangerous consequences.
Intimate Enemy	2,018	Karel Janák	Thriller	5.7	13	Slovak	Czech Republic	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.
The Fountain for Suzanne	1,986	Dušan Rapoš	Comedy, Drama, Music	5.7	11	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	A story about the life and troubles of young people living in the city. The teenagers have to face real life, make their first major decisions, and learn that romance sometimes brings disappointment.
The Line	2,017	Peter Bebjak	Crime, Thriller	5.6	31	Slovak	Slovakia	Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.
Filthy	2,017	Tereza Nvotová	Drama	5.6	30	Slovak	Czech Republic	Lena is a 17-year-old girl from a middle-class family who is experiencing her first love: secret night adventures and magical morning walks along the Danube. However, her dream world is shattered when she is raped. Withdrawing, she ultimately attempts to slit her wrists. Her family, helpless, entrusts her to a psychiatric institute.
Nightsiren	2,022	Tereza Nvotová	Mystery, Drama, Horror	5.5	32	Slovak	Czech Republic	A mysterious woman returns to her mountain village home to confront her painful past. As she tries to uncover the long-buried truth, the local villagers accuse her of witchcraft and murder.
The Interpreter	2,018	Martin Šulík	Drama, Comedy	5.5	19	Slovak	Czech Republic	80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realises his parents were executed by him. He sets out to take revenge but finds instead his 70-year-old son, Georg, a retired teacher. Georg, who had avoided his father all his life, decides to find out more about him and offers Ali to be his interpreter.
Servants	2,020	Ivan Ostrochovský	Drama	5.4	21	Slovak	Czech Republic	Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.
Scumbag	2,020	Mariana Čengel Solčanská	Thriller	5.4	17	Slovak	Slovakia	Political thriller based on the bestselling book of the same name by writer Arpad Soltész. It is set in the world of high politics, organized crime and big money. A promising member of parliament with the support of mafia starts his own party, which later wins the election with a landslide, and he becomes Prime Minister. Together with him, the country will be ruled by criminals who control the police, the courts and state business and subsidies. The mafia is also behind the disappearance of a teenager, Broni, from a rehabilitation centre. The girl is missing only by her friend Nada. She tells journalist Ondra about the missing inmate and the strange practices used by the management of the facility, such as forced sex or drugging. Based on her testimony, the young editor embarks on a dangerous investigation to uncover high-ranking politicians' links to the underworld and expose their abuse of power to enrich themselves and manipulate others.
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself	1,989	Juraj Jakubisko	Drama, Comedy	5.4	11	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
Crack	2,019	Peter Bebjak	Thriller, Mystery	5.3	16	Slovak	Slovakia	A man discovers the old psychiatric reports of a patient who went missing in the 1930s and starts to investigate similar disappearances.
The Kidnapping	2,017	Mariana Čengel Solčanská	Crime	5.3	13	Slovak	Slovakia	The last day of the first year of the young Slovak Republic is coming to an end. Everyone is celebrating. The king of the underworld, Efendi, and t...
322	1,970	Dušan Hanák	Drama	5.3	11	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	A story of a man threatened by a fatal illness evaluating his life (the number 322 in the film title stands for the diagnosis of one kind of cancer). He understands his illness as a form of punishment for his cruel deeds in the 1950s. In the face of reality and his efforts to cleanse himself he hits a barrier of indifference, lack of interest, and individual and collective selfishness. He has to find his own reconciliation with his illness and his past and present life.
Red Captain	2,016	Michal Kollár	Thriller, Crime	5.2	23	Slovak	Poland	Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; six months before the split of Czechoslovakia. Despite all warnings, a young homicide detective sets on investigating a convoluted case that involves Catholic clerical elite and high-ranked agents of the former secret service.
Evil	2,012	Peter Bebjak	Horror	5.2	15	Slovak	Slovakia	A documentary crew who specialize in recording paranormal phenomena accept a stranger’s offer to shoot in his house. As the house begins to reveal its secrets, though, the friends discover that they’ve stumbled onto something truly evil.
I Love, You Love	1,988	Dušan Hanák	Romance, Drama	5.2	14	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	The drama called I Love, You Love was made in 1980 but because of the absurd ideological ban, the film entered cinemas nine years later. Pišta is an unmarried man who works at a freight wagon which carries letters and parcels. Alcohol helps him to overcome his handicap of being short and not good-looking. He wishes he had a woman, but the woman he really wants, ageing Viera who reloads the cargoes, has a soft spot for another man. So, Pišta has nobody and nothing, except for senile mother who sometimes fails to recognize him. The film received Silver Bear for Best Director at the International Film Festival in Berlin.
ČERNÁK	2,025	Jakub Kroner	Drama, Crime, Thriller	5.2	11	Slovak	Slovakia	Miki Černák, a boy from Telgárt, became a respected boss of a mafia group. But it is not enough for Černák. He wants to dominate all of Slovakia. Become the boss of all bosses. However, the way to the top is lined with traitors and corpses. And Černák underestimated the strongest mafia that ever ruled Slovakia - politicians and their secret service.
The House	2,011	Zuzana Liová	Drama, Family	5.1	28	Slovak	Czech Republic	Stone by stone, Imrich is building a small house for his daughter Eva almost entirely on his own. But for Eva, who is about to graduate from school...
Before Tonight Is Over	1,966	Peter Solan	Drama	5.1	10	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution — these people meet in a ski resort bar somewhere in the High Tatras. During one night they gradually reveal their unfulfilled dreams, illusions and disappointments of ”average" people of those times.
Miraculous Virgin	1,967	Štefan Uher	Mystery, Drama, Comedy	5	12	Slovak	Czechoslovakia	A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their erotic desires but also pure feelings of love; she becomes the object of their secret fantasies as well as their artistic inspiration. And it seems that the boundaries between reality and fantasy suddenly cease to exist.
Gypsy	2,011	Martin Šulík	Drama	4.8	14	Slovak	Czech Republic	For 14-year-old Adam, the world of his poor Romany village has only two joys: boxing and Julka, a friend his same age. But after the violent death of his father, the boy experiences life’s harsher side: his mother remarries and his stepfather demands obedience without seeking to deserve Adam’s respect. Gradually everything the boy was attached to starts to fall apart around him, and if his dead father hadn’t visited him he wouldn’t even know which path to take. The inexperience of youth, loneliness, and impulsiveness prevent him from using reason and cool consideration to face the obstacles in his way, and he even sometimes provokes those who stand by him. And thus he finds himself in a situation for which there is only one solution.
Far Too Personal	2,020	Marta Ferencová	Comedy, Drama, Romance	4.5	10	Slovak	Czech Republic	The stories of three women who know each other, or get to know each other. They are brought together by friendship, a man and a little five-year-old girl. Simona rebuilds her life after she divorces and her son decides to live with his father. Natalie finds love in the form of a widower with a young daughter and a devoted grandmother. And even at retirement age, Eva discovers that her life still includes the love of a partner, not just that of her granddaughter.
My Dog Killer	2,013	Mira Fornay	Drama	4.4	10	Slovak	Czech Republic	Môj pes Killer is a one-day drama portraying eighteen-year-old Marek living near the Slovak-Moravian border with his dad and his racist friends. However, Marek's best true friend is his dog. His life is shaken up when he discovers the secret of his lost mother Marika.

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