Jan Němec
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 12, 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Died
- March 18, 2016
- Movies
- 44
Jan Němec (12 July 1936 – 18 March 2016) was a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave."
Upcoming Jan Němec Movies
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2023 | Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History | Self |
| 2016 | The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street | Self |
| 2014 | Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“ | self |
| 2009 | The Ferrari Dino Girl | |
| 2006 | Hranice | |
| 2005 | Toyen | Commentary (voice) |
| 2005 | Searching for Ester | Himself |
| 2003 | Late Night Talks with Mother | Jan Němec |
| 2000 | Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) | |
| 1991 | Corpus delicti | |
| 1991 | Flames of Royal Love | (uncredited) |
| 1988 | '68 | Dezsö Horváth |
| 1988 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague |
| 1982 | Horí | |
| 1970 | Killing the Devil | (uncreditted) |
| 1968 | Oratorio for Prague | Self |
| 1968 | Necklace of Melancholy | |
| 1966 | An Occasion to Speak | Self |
| 1960 | No Entrance | (segment "In Pursuit") |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | A Loaf of Bread | Director, Screenplay |
| 2026 | FAMU 80 – Best of | Director |
| 2025 | Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut | Writer |
| 2016 | The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street | Writer, Director |
| 2010 | Heart Beat 3D | Director, Writer |
| 2009 | The Ferrari Dino Girl | Director, Writer |
| 2008 | Heart Above the Castle | Director, Screenplay |
| 2005 | Toyen | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 2004 | Landscape of my Heart | Director, Screenplay |
| 2003 | Late Night Talks with Mother | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1996 | Code Name: Ruby | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1991 | Flames of Royal Love | Director, Screenplay |
| 1990 | The Strahov Demonstration | Director |
| 1975 | Metamorphosis | Director, Writer |
| 1975 | Das Rückendekolleté | Director, Writer |
| 1970 | Killing the Devil | Screenplay |
| 1969 | Proudy lásku odnesou | Screenplay, Director |
| 1968 | Čas slunce a růží | Director |
| 1968 | Oratorio for Prague | Director |
| 1968 | Necklace of Melancholy | Screenplay, Director |
| 1967 | Martyrs of Love | Screenplay, Director |
| 1966 | The Party and the Guests | Director, Screenplay |
| 1966 | Pearls of the Deep | Screenplay, Director |
| 1964 | Diamonds of the Night | Screenplay, Director |
| 1963 | A Memory for the Present | Writer, Director |
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