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…

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends wh...
Lieutenant Vasátko is spending Christmas vacation in a mountain cabin where a diverse group of peopl...

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay...

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

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

A young promising Olympian, Robert, shoots two police officers in a fit of rage. Lieutenant Morton s...

Detective Lieutenant Boruvka (Lubomír Lipský) is called to the State Scientific Library to investiga...

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

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

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

In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the...

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

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

Two short stories by Karel Čintamani a ptáci An avid collector of carpets, MUDr. Vitásek discovers a...

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