Top Cast
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Jan Macháček
Honza (segment "Karty jsou rozdaný...")
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Zbyněk Petráček
Piotr (segment "Karty jsou rozdaný...")
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Viktor Stoilov
Chuda (segment "Karty jsou rozdaný...")
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David Kopelent
Frodek (segment "Karty jsou rozdaný...")
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Lucie Křížková
Hedvika (segment "Karty jsou rozdaný...")
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Petr Kavan
Guru (segment "Karty jsou rozdaný...")
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Alex Marculiewicz
Soňa (segment "Karty jsou rozdaný...")
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Tomáš Kafka
Hrůzek (segment "Karty jsou rozdaný...")
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Miroslav Pokorný
Prošek (segment "Karty jsou rozdaný...")
Overview
A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.
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Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.
Woman Times Seven
Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison."
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Starving in Suburbia
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
The Truth About Emanuel
Inspired by her mom's rebellious past and a confident new friend, a shy 16-year-old publishes an anonymous zine calling out sexism at her school.
Moxie
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
Sky
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he rents a dilapidated farm house to give the dog room to run. A local handyman refers Jon to a woman who might be able to help him train the dog. Reluctantly, Jon gives her a try. Is the dog the problem, or the owner?
A Dog Year
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.