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Summary for: This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
The uplifting new sports drama Invincibles (Neporazitelní) follows the Czech national para ice hockey team during the 2019 World Championships in Ostrava, blending the logistics of team-building with personal stories of resilience, second chances, and inner strength.
The Prague Reporter calls it “truly inspirational,” highlighting the nail-biting tournament scenes and heartfelt performances from Hynek Čermák and Ivan Trojan. The film is now showing with English subtitles at Kino Pilotů in Prague, and keep an eye out for future English-friendly screenings at additional cinemas.
🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
- This year's French Film Festival runs through Nov. 26 at Kino Světozor, Kino Lucerna, Edison Filmhub, and Kino 35.
- Virtual Girlfriends, now screening with English subtitles at Kino Světozor, follows three Czech OnlyFans creators over the course of a year.
- The Czech-Danish doc Mr. Nobody Against Putin follows a Russian teacher exposing state-driven militarization, now screening with English subtitles at Kino Světozor.
- The Czech documentary Is It Worth It!?, satirical look at the art world, screens with English subtitles at Kino Světozor on Nov. 25.
- iShorts: Monster Cabaret 2025 showcases 90 minutes of atmospheric horror shorts with English subtitles at Bio Oko on Nov. 26.
- Kino Brasil brings the many faces of Brazil to Bio Oko, including Oscar-submitted The Secret Agent, Nov. 27-30.
- No Other Choice, the latest from South Korean director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy), screens with English subtitles at Kino Světozor, Kino Aero, and Bio Oko from Nov. 27.
- Adapted from the classic novel, The Master and Margarita follows a Moscow playwright and his muse; screening with English subtitles at Kino Světozor and Kino Aero from Nov. 27.
🍿 New wide releases
- Wicked: For Good ★★⯪☆ (read review)
- Sisu: Road to Revenge ★★★⯪ (read review)
- Keeper ★★⯪☆ (read review)
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
One of the most controversial Czech movies of the year is now streaming on Netflix with English subtitles. Directed by rapper Marty Pohl, better known under his stage name Řezník, the drug-fueled black comedy Do the Maeth (Na plech) follows a recent graduate (Jan Hofman) who becomes caught up with a gang of drug cooks after attempting to return a lost backpack.
- Mark Wahlberg’s secret past as an assassin catches up with him in The Family Plan 2 as he and his family face new threats in London from Kit Harington. Streaming on Apple TV+.
- Train Dreams, streaming on Netflix, follows Joel Edgerton as a 1920s logger navigating work, family, and life’s hardships, with Felicity Jones, William H. Macy, and Kerry Condon.
- Ted Danson's septuagenarian detective returns to campus in season 2 of A Man on the Inside, now streaming on Netflix.
- A ragtag band of outlaws confronts destiny and a reality-bending relic in The Mighty Nein, a dark animated series that has released the first three episodes of its second season on Prime Video.
🎞️ The Throwback
This Thursday is Thanksgiving in the United States, a holiday celebrated with a lavish feast, and one of the most unforgettable portrayals of food in Czech cinema has to be Věra Chytilová’s New Wave classic Daisies. The film’s chaotic scenes of food waste, combined with its broader anti-authority spirit, led to its ban by communist censors; see it in a newly-restored version with English subtitles at DAFilms.
For more traditional Thanksgiving fare, John Hughes' classic Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is streaming on Disney+ in Czechia. Eli Roth's slasher movie Thanksgiving is not currently streaming in Czechia, but the fake trailer that inspired it—filmed outside of Prague during production on Hostel II—is available on YouTube.
