In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs Matoušová, which threatens the reputation of the eponymous luxury hotel popular with Prague’s elite. Even the retired police inspector Mrázek (František Filipovský), who works at the Excelsior as a hotel detective, is unable to help at first. Although the investigation inevitably uncovers the hotel staff’s scheming, Vacátko and his team unerringly follow the trail that leads them to the murderer…

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in shar...

Monette, a middle-aged salesman, picks up a deaf/mute hitchhiker on the road. The hitchhiker falls a...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for e...

It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a ne...

Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attent...

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to the...

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends wh...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague L...

In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the...
This forgotten detective story starring Svatopluk Beneš focuses on those ills of the past regime tha...

A mad scientist repeatedly kills and resurrects his own son. Based on the story by Jack London.

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubom...

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she can...