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Summary for: This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
Slovak figure skater Ondrej Nepela faces mounting personal and political pressure in the lead-up to the 1973 World Championships in Bratislava in Last Routine (Šampión), a new Czech-Slovak biopic directed by Jakub Červenka. The film focuses on a narrow window in the athlete’s life, capturing personal and social repression in communist Czechoslovakia.
The Prague Reporter writes that the film “soars on the ice, especially during the thrilling climactic routine,” highlighting its technical strengths despite some narrative limitations. Last Routine is now playing with English subtitles at Kino Lucerna and Kino Atlas in Prague.
- April 13-14: New films from across the continent come to Kino Světozor and Edison Filmhub as part of the Days of European Film festival. Most screenings feature English subtitles.
- April 13: Five Oscar-nominated shorts from across the globe screen as part of iShorts' Front Runners - Animation compilation at Kino Světozor.
- April 13: The devastating Oscar-nominated docudrama The Voice of Hind Rajab plays with English subtitles at Kino Aero (also April 15 at Edison Filmhub).
- April 13: Born on the Fourth of July, with Tom Cruise as war activist Ron Kovic, screens as part of Kino Aero's Milestones series.
- April 14-19: Prague Film Festival 2026 showcases Czech premieres of international feature films and shorts, along with industry events and masterclasses.
- April 14: Sentimental Value, which won this year's Oscar for Best International Feature Film, screens with English subtitles at Bio Oko.
- April 15: 2000 Meters to Andriivka, which follows Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the war with Russia, screens with English subtitles at Kino Světozor and Edison Filmhub.
- April 15: Short films with unexpected twists screen as part of the iShorts: Noir compilation at Bio Oko.
- April 16: Studio Ghibli classic Only Yesterday, from director Isao Takahata, plays with English subtitles at Bio Oko.
- April 17: Paired with Lee Cronin's new Mummy movie, Don Coscarelli's Bubba Ho-tep plays at Kino Aero.
🍿 New wide releases
🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
Tomáš Vorel’s The Can (Gympl), a defining Czech coming-of-age comedy, follows a group of rebellious Prague teenagers navigating school, authority, and self-expression through graffiti culture. Blending humor with a sharp look at generational divides, the film has remained a touchstone of Czech youth cinema since its 2007 release.
The Prague Reporter called it “a compelling and resonant look at the generation gap in contemporary Czech society” in a 2007 review. Gympl screens with English subtitles at Kino Aero on April 16 as part of the Some Like It Czech series, followed by a Q&A with co-star Tomáš Vorel Jr. and co-writer Pavel Nosek.
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
- Keanu Reeves plays an aging Hollywood star in the Jonah Hill-directed Outcome, now streaming on Apple TV+.
- The fifth season of superhero satire The Boys has premiered its first two episodes on Prime Video, with new installments on Wednesdays.
- All four episodes of the Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair reboot are now streaming on Disney+ in Czechia.
- Chase Infiniti stars in The Handmaid's Tale spinoff The Testaments, which has dropped its first three episodes on Disney+. New episodes release Wednesdays.
- Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy is a gay priest in the new comedy Big Mistakes. All eight episodes are now streaming on Netflix.
- Season three of Euphoria debuts tonight (Monday morning, Prague time) on HBO Max, with new episodes on Sundays.
🎞️ The Throwback
Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair brings the director’s martial arts revenge saga back to cinemas in a newly unified form, combining Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 into a single 275-minute feature. Originally released as two films in 2003–2004, the story follows Uma Thurman’s Bride as she embarks on a relentless quest for revenge against her former assassin squad.
This combined cut restores the film’s intended structure as a continuous narrative, including previously altered material and full-color versions of scenes once censored in some markets. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair screens widely across Prague cinemas from April 17.
