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Summary for: This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
The Last Viking is an offbeat Danish comedy starring Mads Mikkelsen as a gentle, psychologically unstable man who believes he is John Lennon. When his newly released criminal brother enlists his help to recover buried loot, the reunion spirals into a strange, darkly comic journey involving an unconventional plan to reunite The Beatles.
The Prague Reporter calls The Last Viking “a bold, unpredictable comedy that blends comedic absurdity with poignant reflections on identity, family, and the ways we connect with others.” The film is now playing with English subtitles in Prague at Kino Světozor and Edison Filmhub.
- This year's SCANDI film festival, which premiered The Last Viking locally, runs through Jan. 21 at multiple cinemas across Prague.
- Korean black comedy No Other Choice, a favorite this awards season, continues to play with English subtitles at Kino Světozor and Kino Aero.
- Terrence Malick's ethereal classic The Tree of Life screens as part of Kino Aero's Legends series, Jan. 19.
- Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 animated classic Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind screens with English subtitles at Bio Oko, Jan. 20.
- David Lynch week: Eraserhead screens at Kino Aero on Jan. 20, while Kino Ponrepo will play all 18 episodes of Twin Peaks, season 3, on Jan. 24-25.
- Shot on 8mm over the course of director Michal Böhm's life, Czech documentary Unborn Father plays with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub, Jan. 23.
- The Kinomixer mini-festival brings new horror, fantasy, and sci-fi films to Bio Oko, Jan. 23-25.
🍿 New wide releases
🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
Broken Voices, which won last year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and leads the recently-announced 2026 Czech Film Critics’ Awards nominations, is now streaming with English subtitles on Netflix. The film tells the disquieting story about the relationship between a young singer and her choirmaster.
The Prague Reporter calls Broken Voices a "chilling reminder of how easily abuse can remain hidden in plain sight, especially when it hides behind trust."
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
- Highly-anticipated Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms premieres tonight on HBO Max (Monday morning, Prague time), with new episodes dropping weekly.
- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reunite as cops who hit a big score of cash in the Miami-set thriller The Rip, now streaming on Netflix.
- A new three-part mystery on Netflix, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials features an ensemble cast led by Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman.
- Season 2 of Hijack, starring Idris Elba as a lawyer caught in an airline hijacking, has premiered on Apple TV+, with new episodes dropping Wednesdays.
- Season 3 of college-set romance Tell Me Lies has premiered the first three episodes on Disney+, with new episodes releasing Tuesdays.
🎞️ The Throwback
Miloš Forman’s The Firemen's Ball remains one of the defining works of the Czechoslovak New Wave, a sharply observed comedy that unfolds over the course of a single disastrous evening. Forman's last Czech production before emigrating to the United States, the 1967 classic earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
The thinly veiled satire of socialist bureaucracy and collective responsibility screens with English subtitles at Kino Aero on Jan. 22 as part of the Some Like It Czech series. If you can’t make the Kino Aero screening, The Firemen's Ball is also streaming locally with English subtitles on KVIFF.tv.
