Karel RodenFilmography

Jménem krále

Actors: Karel Roden, Klara Issova, Jan Kanyza, Lukas Vaculik, Marketa Hrubesova, Martin Stepanek

Synopsis: This Czech-language period saga from director Petr Nikolaev unfurls in the medieval era, during the initial gestations of knighthood. Nikolaev dramatizes the severe punishment of all acts deemed criminal, following analysis by the king's royal investigator and judge. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Read More

The Ferrari Dino Girl

Actors: Karel Roden, Jan Budar, Tammy Sundquist

Synopsis: Jan Nemec, one of the leading filmmakers of the Czech New Wave of the 1960s, looks back at a crucial moment in his history as well as that of his country in this historical drama. In August 1968, the Soviet Union rolled into Czechoslovakia with tanks, determined to halt the reform movement that Read More

Largo Winch

Actors: Tomer Gazit Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry

Hlidac C.47

Actors: Karel Roden, Lucia Siposova, Václav Jirácek, Vladimir Dlouhy

RocknRolla

Actors: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba

Synopsis: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie heads back to the London underworld for this hyperkinetic crime comedy concerning a shady land deal that leaves every schemer in the city determined to get rich or die trying. When a Russian mobster orchestrates a lucrative real estate scam Read More

Bathory

Actors: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan, Hans Matheson, Deana Jakubiskova

Synopsis: The infamous Countess Erzsebet Bathory, who is said to have maintained youth and beauty into her old age by bathing in the blood of virgins, has her life story told in a more balanced but still provocative manner in this grand-scale historical drama. Bathory, played by Anna Freil, is portrayed in Read More

Summer Love

Actors: Boguslaw Linda, Karel Roden, Katarzyna Figura, Val Kilmer, Krzysztof Zaleski

Synopsis: Director Piotr Uklanski breaks new ground in the realm of Polish cinema with this symbolic western that can be viewed as either contemporary art or simple entertainment. The first Polish western in the history of cinema, Summer Love opens as the nameless Stranger (Karel Roden) gallops into town Read More

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Jean Rochefort, Karel Roden, Max Baldry, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: Mr. Bean -- the stick-legged goofball man-child created by Rowan Atkinson on television in the early '90s, and in the 1997 feature Bean -- undertakes his second cinematic adventure in the comic romp Mr. Bean's Holiday. Growing thoroughly sick of the wet, cold, and clammy London weather, Mr. Bean (Atkinson Read More

The Abandoned

Actors: Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Valentin Ganev, Carlos Reig-Plaza, Paraskeva Djukelova

Synopsis: An adopted girl returns to her homeland of Russia to explore the dilapidated mountain farm she has recently inherited, only to discover that it harbors a deadly secret in the feature debut from Aftermath director Nacho Cerdà. Shortly after the mysterious death of her birth mother, young Marie was Read More

The Bitch's Diary

Actors: Danica Jurcová, Karel Roden, Marek Vasut, Tomas Matonoha, Miroslav Etzler

Little Girl Blue

Actors: Iva Bittova, Karel Roden, Ivan Franek, Miloslav Koenig, Martha Issova

Synopsis: Oscar-winning filmmaker Jan Sverak (Kolya) produced but did not direct this understated slice-of-life seriocomedy, a co-production of the Czech Republic and Slovakia helmed by Alice Nellis (Vylet) from her own original screenplay. Iva Bittova stars as Julie, a professional translator quietly Read More

Running Scared

Actors: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner

Synopsis: A minor crook finds himself in major peril when a "hot" weapon goes missing in this violent crime thriller. Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) is a low-level "mechanic" in the Mafia who hopes to rise through the ranks by doing whatever is needed. One night, a drug deal goes very wrong when police show up Read More

Dead Man's Bounty

Actors: Boguslaw Linda, Karel Roden, Katarzyna Figura, Val Kilmer

Synopsis: Val Kilmer stars as the corpse of a wanted man in this western exploring the greed and iniquity of the lawless frontier. When a stranger rides into a small town toting the lifeless body of a noted outlaw, his intentions are to collect the bounty and be on his way. But the situation becomes Read More

Shut Up and Shoot Me

Actors: Karel Roden, Andy Nyman, Anna Geislerová, Karel Karlovic, Klára Low

Synopsis: His wife left flattened by a falling statue as the couple make their way through Eastern Europe on holiday, a grieving British tourist attempts to stage an early reunion with his beloved departed to little avail in director Steen Agro's pitch black comedy. When Colin's (Andy Nyman) wife Maggie (Klára Low Read More

Dead Fish

Actors: Gary Oldman

Synopsis: Gary Oldman, Terence Stamp, Robert Carlyle, and Billy Zane headline this stylish, darkly comic crime comedy centering on a disarmingly charming hit man (Oldman) on a frantic quest for love, money, and bloody revenge. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bourne Supremacy

Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann, Joan Allen

Synopsis: The second chapter in the "Bourne Trilogy," based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novels, reaches the screen in this sequel to the 2002 thriller The Bourne Identity. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar Read More

Hellboy

Actors: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic book series about a creature from Hades who joins the battle against evil arrives on the screen in vivid form in this adaptation directed by distinctive horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. During World War II, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Read More

Bulletproof Monk

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott, Jaime King, Karel Roden

Synopsis: A monk and a pickpocket become unlikely allies in this action adventure story. Sixty years ago, a nameless monk (Chow Yun-Fat) was appointed the guardian of a mysterious scroll that grants remarkable powers to those who possess it. After six decades of traveling the world to protect the scroll Read More

Rex-Patriates

Actors: Ellen Savaria, James Babson, Nancy Bishop, Joel Sugerman, Alan Levy

Synopsis: In the early '90s, after the "Velvet Revolution" threw off Communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia, the city of Prague developed a reputation as the "Second Chance City," a haven for creative individuals with a desire to reinvent themselves in a city going through an exciting evolution of its Read More

Blade II

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela

Synopsis: Four years after scoring a box-office touchdown with Blade (1998), actor Wesley Snipes returns to portray the Marvel Comics character again in this sequel that teams him with Mexican horror director Guillermo del Toro. A half-vampire, half-human hybrid, Blade (Snipes) is a merciless vampire hunter Read More

15 Minutes

Actors: Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks, Melina Kanakaredes

Synopsis: An action drama centering on the media circus, 15 Minutes focuses on a New York homicide detective named Eddie Flemming (Robert De Niro), a famous figure known for his heroic on-the-job manner. A tabloid news anchor (Kelsey Grammer) attempts to get the scoop on Flemming's latest beat when a pair Read More

Kytice

Actors: Linda Rybova, Dan Barta, Jana Svandova, Vera Galatikova

Obeti A Vrazi

Actors: Karel Roden, Ivana Chylkova, Monika Hilmerova

Synopsis: Director Andrea Sedlackova made his debut with this dark drama about a family in crisis. In the early '70s, Miroslav (Vladimir Skultety) and Jana (Monika Hilmerova) are half-brother and sister who live together with their father. The siblings, just edging into adolescence, have begun having Read More

Late Night Talks With Mother

Actors: Karel Roden, Jan Nemec, Zuzana Stivinova, Marta Kubisova, Jan Melicher

Paralelní svety

Actors: Lenka Vlasakova, Karel Roden, Jitka Schneiderova, Gabina Skrabakova, Marek Daniel

Praha Ocima

Actors: Laurence Côte, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Karel Roden, Theodora Remundová, Bozidara Turzonovova

Synopsis: French producer Joel Farges got together with Czech producer/director Artemio Benki and four other young Czech filmmakers to contribute to a series of 20-minute episodes about love in the magical city of Prague at the end of the millennium. Praha ocima was inspired by episode films about cities Read More

Hostage Train

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Carol Alt, Karel Roden

Kral Ubu

Synopsis: Based on an absurdist puppet play by Alfred Jarry, this political and often ribald comedy chronicles the attempts of Ubu, a vulgar Polish military officer to fulfill a contract and murder King Wenceslaus. The contract was put out by the King's rude, crude wife Ma. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Corpus Delicti

Actors: Lenka Korinkova, Karel Roden

Synopsis: Viktorie is no longer young, but she has a real passion for life -- one not shared, evidently, by her ex-husband, a doctor who is still part of her social circle. She magnetizes men with great abandon and parties with gusto. In fact, she is sufficiently wild to have made a boyfriend out of a Read More

Cas Sluhu

Actors: Ivana Chylkova, Karel Roden, Jitka Asterova

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