Černý Petr / Black Peter (1964)
Comedy | Drama
Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Starring: Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil, Vladimír Pucholt, Pavel Sedlacek, Zdenek Kulhanek
Director: Milos Forman
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Biography | Drama
A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, Crispin Glover, Brett Harrelson
Director: Milos Forman
Horí, má panenko / The Firemen's Ball / Like a House on Fire (1967)
Comedy | Drama
A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman's first color film The Firemen's Ball (Horí, má panenko) is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire. A hilarious saga of good intentions confounded, the story chronicles a firemen's ball where nothing goes right-from a beauty pageant whose reluctant participants embarrass the organizers to a lottery from which nearly all the prizes are pilfered. Presumed to be a commentary on the floundering Czech leadership, the film was "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia following the Russian invasion and prompted Forman's move to America.
Starring: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha, Frantisek Debelka, Josef Kolb, Jan Stöckl
Director: Milos Forman
Ragtime (1981)
Drama
A proud black musician rebels against racism in turn-of-the-century New York.
Starring: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien
Director: Milos Forman
Valmont (1989)
Drama | Romance
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman.
Starring: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Si鈔 Phillips, Jeffrey Jones
Director: Milos Forman
Man on the Moon (1999)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love
Director: Milos Forman
Les bien-aimés / Beloved (2011)
Drama | Musical | Romance
In London, a mother and daughter navigate their respective romances; Madeline rekindles an affair from thirty years earlier, while her daughter Vera is caught between a musician who cannot commit and her ex, who still pines for her.
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Milos Forman, Paul Schneider, Radivoje Bukvic, Michel Delpech
Director: Christophe Honoré
Amadeus (1984)
Biography | Drama | Music
Amadeus. The man. The music. The magic. The madness. This is the incredible, mostly true story about the relationship between two composers in 18th century Vienna — Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), the successful court composer for Emperor Joseph of Austria, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), a child prodigy who, while vulgar and irritating, writes the greatest music the world has ever heard. The film unfolds in a series of flashbacks, as Salieri is consumed with jealously by Mozart's natural talent, and is unable to accept the knowledge that he will never possess the genius of a man he cannot stand.
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole
Director: Milos Forman
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Biography | Drama | War
Goya's Ghosts is a sweeping historical epic, told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army, the film captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being a heretic, renowned painter Francisco Goya must convince his old friend Lorenzo, a power-hungry monk and leader of the Spanish Inquisition, to spare her life.
Starring: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, José Luis Gómez
Director: Milos Forman
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Drama
A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Dean R. Brooks, Scatman Crothers
Director: Milos Forman
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Beloved / Les bien-aimés (2011)
Drama | Musical | Romance
Paris in the sixties to the London of the 2000s, Madeleine and her daughter Vera come and go around the men they love. But all ages can not live love lightly. How to resist the passage of time and that addresses our deepest feelings? New film from french master Christophe Honoré ("Love Songs"), "Le Bien-Aime" was the closing film of the Cannes Film Festival 2011.
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Milos Forman, Paul Schneider, Michel Delpech
Director: Christophe Honoré
Taking Off (1971)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
Starring: Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey, Audra Lindley
Director: Milos Forman
