# Jiří Menzel's best films

From the Oscar-winning Closely Watched Trains to I Served the King of England: Menzel's films according to Kinobox, Moviezone and Skylink, many of them from Hrabal.

- 5 votes · 12 items
- Nov 10, 2025 · cinephile.grumpy
- https://even.best/en/l/3339/jiri-menzel-s-best-films

## Top 12

1. **Cutting It Short (1981)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Hrabal's tale of a brewery and the beautiful Maryška.
2. **Closely Watched Trains (1966)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — His feature debut, from Hrabal; Oscar for best foreign-language film.
3. **My Sweet Little Village (1985)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A village comedy; Oscar nomination.
4. **Seclusion Near a Forest (1976)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Prague family looks for a country cottage, with Zdeněk Svěrák.
5. **The Snowdrop Festival (1983)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hrabal's hunters and a wild boar.
6. **Larks on a String (1969)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Banned and only released in 1990; Golden Bear.
7. **Capricious Summer (1967)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Vladislav Vančura; Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary.
8. **I Served the King of England (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hrabal's waiter Jan Dítě; FIPRESCI prize in Berlin.
9. **The End of Old Times (1989)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Vančura, with Josef Abrhám.
10. **Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The early days of Czech cinema.
11. **The Beggar's Opera (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Václav Havel's play.
12. **Crime at a Night Club (1968)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A detective parody with songs by Suchý and Šlitr.

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