Simona Babčáková

Living Large (2024)

A 12-year-old boy faces bullying due to his weight and decides to take charge of his life by adopting a healthier lifestyle and trying to win the heart of the girl he admires. Through his journey, he learns the importance of positivity and standing against ...

Where Butterflies Don't Fly (2023)

Daniel is an odd guy who lives with his endlessly quarrelling parents uncomplaining about his destiny. He keeps a distance from other people, he has no friends, nobody understands him, he is different. He will be turning nineteen and the last thing he woul ...

A Self-Educated Life (2023)

The main character, Klára, can still be just as insecure and confused at forty as she was at eighteen, only it doesn't look so cute anymore. Her marriage ends overnight, and she finds herself once again in the unpredictable world of dating and dating mish ...

Big Dreams (2023)

Inspired by Czech Republic's 1998 Olympic win, 11-year-old Dom forms a hockey team with friends to pursue their dreams against all the odds. ...

Birthday Wishes (2023)

Líba has only one birthday wish every year. She insists that the whole family come together for her celebration, which they all always do. That is, until this year's birthday. Her son Petr has other plans for this year, so he pretends to be sick in front ...

Zimní pohádka (2022)

Till the Summer Comes (2022)

This romantic comedy maps out the lives of former classmates who, despite their high school days being long past, still regularly meet up. Their stories and lives are different, packed with diverse joys, woes and secrets – secrets that often lead to agit ...

Kakadu (2021)

Deadtown aneb Cesta tam a zase zpátky (2019)

Smiles of Sad Men (2018)

A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol. ...

The Third Wish (2017)

Kindly, mischievous and humorous story about the troubles of a lovesick teenager called Albert. ...

Manžel na hodinu (2016)

Milan's relationship with Dr. Eliška is developing promisingly, and when Milan finally decides to propose to her, it seems that nothing stands in the way of the wedding. Well, apart from one small "trifle" - Milan is still married to Slovakian woman Janka ...

Jak se zbavit nevěsty (2016)

Eva, a driven pastry-shop owner and single mother with a meddlesome but well-meaning mother, is thrown for a loop when her ex-husband Janá, whom she still gets along with perfectly, announces he's fallen in love again and plans to marry the talented piani ...

Vybíjená (2015)

An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends - Jeff, Skippy and Tom - whose ups and downs and r ...

Husband to Rent (2014)

Four swimmers - water polo players find themselves at the bottom of their existence after losing a match. So desperate that they even find themselves living at the bottom of their emptied pool. To save their "dignity" they start a questionable business "Hu ...

Osmy (2014)

An ordinary man with an ordinary job, ordinary family and ordinary affair has an unordinary day after he signes the Charta 77. ...

Nowhere in Moravia (2014)

When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and naïve outsider Olin – or fighting with her imperious mother. Lightened with a touch of black humor, this la ...

Ženy, které nenávidí muže (2013)

A detective investigating a series of murders becomes a suspect himself. He is suspended from duty and conducts his own investigation. With the quiet help of a colleague, he finds a clue to the real perpetrator. A classic detective story that focuses more ...

Lucky Loser (2012)

Young Filip is cursed with terrible luck ever since his father dared to outwit Lady Fortune herself, and to make matters worse, Filip falls hopelessly in love with Fortune's daughter, Hanička. Determined to win her heart and break his family's jinx, he e ...

Vánoční hvězda (2012)

Stationmaster Miloš, a lonely trumpet player nearing fifty, watches life pass him by as he mourns alone at a funeral and pines secretly for Tereza, the charming nurse who boards his afternoon train. Desperate for courage, his bandmates enter him into a t ...

In the Shadow (2012)

In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelry robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigat ...

Long Live the Family! (2011)

Libor, a former teacher, enjoys a well-paid position as a bank manager, living in a luxurious villa outside Prague. His business partners are taken into custody and the authorities have a few questions for him to answer. Rather than wait around, he decides ...

Černá díra (2011)

A recording of a theater performance by the Dejvické Theater. At a half-forgotten gas station somewhere in the American Midwest, a dog has died. And yet something extraordinary is happening here. People who enter this place find themselves caught in a spa ...

Alois Nebel (2011)

A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dis­patcher at the small railway station i ...

The Greatest Czechs (2010)

Film crew on the road: Director (Jaroslav Plesl), his Producer (Simona Babcáková), and their Director of Photography (Jirí Vyorálek) and Sound Arist (Johana Svarcova). Starving artists who already have a number of films to their names, Czech Lion award ...

Dreamers (2009)

Thirtysomethings Linda, Radim, Tonda, Otakar, Dagmara and Silvie have been friends since they met as teenagers. All of them arrived in the big city, Prague, from their small home town. The euphoric dreams each had for themselves have not materialized and t ...

Shameless (2008)

When Oskar, a self-centred TV weatherman, cheats on his wife Zuzana with their au pair, she kicks him to the curb and enlists her in-laws in the search for a new boyfriend. ...

Děti noci (2008)

Ofka has fallen into a strange lethargy: while most of her high school classmates continue their studies, she refuses to leave the deceptive comfort of childhood, which is quickly turning into a stifling trap. She works in her brother-in-law Eda's 24-hour ...

I'm All Good (2008)

This Hrebejk's comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic "Velvet revolution" of 1989. This was an era of sudden freedom, transition and confusion. Most people got carried away, quickly abandoning the old values and uncritically accepting the ...

Zajatci Ďáblova chřtánu (2006)

An adventurous story about traveling through time and friendship across history. One summer morning, siblings Klára and David find a frightened little boy in front of their parents' cottage. They would like to leave the care of the strangely behaving chil ...

Smrt pedofila (2004)

In a Czech school friendship grows between a teacher and a student. The friendship turns into an intimate relationship. Till the student begin to blackmail the teacher. ...

Černá díra (2011)

A recording of a theater performance by the Dejvické Theater. At a half-forgotten gas station somewhere in the American Midwest, a dog has died. And yet something extraordinary is happening here. People who enter this place find themselves caught in a spa ...