Krumbachová’s attractive costume design offers an ironic visual counterpoint to Vojtěch Jasný’s subversive micro-epic about communism bringing change—and disillusionment—to a small Czech village.

This gripping parable of persecution and paranoia in World War II–era Czechoslovakia telegraphs the day-to-day dread of life in an occupied state through a Jewish doctor’s nightmarish journey into the Prague underground.

A steely willed Czech woman armed with an ax plots revenge on the Nazi soldiers who have forced her to accompany them on their journey to Vienna in this atmospheric thriller—featuring costumes by Krumbachová—about the extremes to which war drives ordinary people.

A pair of pixieish hell-raisers embark on a giddy, anything-goes pursuit of hedonistic pleasure, gustatory excess, and patriarchy-smashing destruction in Vera Chytilova’s exuberantly experimental call to rebellion.

Told in a visceral rush of handheld tracking shots and hallucinations, Jan Němec’s miniature tour de force harrowingly evokes two teenage boys’ desperate fight for survival as they flee a train delivering them to a concentration camp.

Banned for decades for its unvarnished depiction of state surveillance, The Ear unfolds over one sleepless night when a couple discovers that “the ear” of the Communist regime is listening in on their every word.

Věra Chytilová’s follow-up to her avant-garde landmark Daisies is a radical retelling of Adam and Eve, a richly enigmatic odyssey that unfolds in a kaleidoscopic swirl of senses-scrambling sound and image.

Featuring costumes by Krumbachová, this visually splendorous Cinemascope rhapsody, by turns a lyrical, caustic, and anti-heroic vision of the Soviet liberation of Czechoslovakia, sees the injustices of war and the moral failings of humanity through the eyes of an imaginative 12-year-old boy.

Krumbachová’s sole directorial effort puts a surrealist, satanic spin on the battle-of-the-sexes farce as it coolly cuts male chauvinism down to size and luxuriates in female pleasure, desire, and liberation.

A 13-year-old girl tumbles through the looking glass into a phantasmagoric realm of vampires, black magic, and pagan sexuality in this lushly stylized horror fantasia, co-scripted by Krumbachová.