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Summary for: What to watch in Prague: This week’s English-friendly cinema and streaming picks🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
Bohdan Karásek’s Everything As It Should Be offers a tender Czech variation on Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy, following a pregnant woman who reconnects with her former husband during an emotionally revealing walk through the streets of Liberec.
The Prague Reporter calls it "a uniquely Czech perspective on love, loss, and relationships that continue to define us long after they have ended," highlighting the film’s thoughtful performances and quiet emotional depth. After premiering at the Karlovy Vary film fest, Everything As It Should Be is now screening in Prague cinemas, and with English subtitles at Kino Světozor, Kino Aero, Kino Lucerna, and Bio Oko.
🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
- July 27: Only Beautiful Things to Look At, a new Czech drama about forced sterilization of Roma women in the 1980s, plays with English subtitles at Kino Světozor, with additional showings at Kino Aero and Kino Lucerna.
- July 27: After playing at the Karlovy Vary film fest, Mexican apartment block drama Flies screens with English subtitles at Kino Aero.
- July 28: David Lynch's 1980s cult classic Blue Velvet plays as part of Kino Aero's Legends series.
- July 28: The Czech premiere of Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt at Meetfactory features a live online interview with band members Paul Leary and Jeff Pinkus.
- July 28: Karlovy Vary winner Fruit Gathering, a Czech-French-Myanmar co-production, screens with English subtitles at Kino Světozor (also July 29 at Kino Atlas and Kino Aero).
- July 29: Cult classic 1972 Ukrainian comedy The Lost Letter screens with English subtitles at Bio Oko.
- July 30: Bio Oko celebrates Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar with a double feature including his 1986 classic Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and his latest, Bitter Christmas, both with English subtitles.
- July 30: American Film Summer opens at Energy Pub in Riegrovy sady with a free outdoor screening of the classic wartime romance Casablanca.
- July 31: Edison Filmhub hosts a screening of John Waters’ cult classic Hairspray, with a pre-show drag performance curated by PINKBUS.
- July 31: Kino Aero profiles Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi with a double feature of her 1989 classic My 20th Century and her latest, Silent Friend, both with English subtitles.
- Aug. 1: Another Ildikó Enyedi double feature at Edison Filmhub, with 2016's On Body and Soul followed by Silent Friend.
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
- Kevin Hart crashes a Miami bachelor party to learn about Gen Z in 72 Hours, a slick new comedy now streaming on Netflix.
- Jake Johnson is a tennis washout who turns to pickleball in The Dink, now streaming on Apple TV+.
- Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe has premiered on HBO Max; new episodes drop on Thursdays.
- The twist-laden true crime documentary A Toxic Love Story, about an increasingly threatening revenge plot, is now on Netflix.
- Just two months after debuting in cinemas, fantasy blockbuster Masters of the Universe is now streaming on Prime Video.
🎞️ The Throwback
A newly restored version of Věra Chytilová’s Tainted Horseplay premiered at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, bringing renewed attention to one of the director’s boldest films. The 1988 classic begins as a raucous sex comedy before taking an unexpectedly dark turn after an HIV diagnosis upends the lives of three carefree friends.
The Prague Reporter calls the film "one of the sharpest moral dramas of 1980s Czechoslovakia," praising how Chytilová transforms broad farce into a powerful reflection on responsibility, fear, and late communist society. Now entering Prague cinemas, Tainted Horseplay screens with English subtitles at Kino Atlas on July 29.
