4 Movies Starring Karel Roden

Bulletproof Monk

Bulletproof Monk

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-04-16

Languages:

English, Tibetan, Panjabi, German

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (40730 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Hunter

Fullplot:

For 60 years a mysterious monk with no name has zigzagged the globe to protect an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. Now the Monk must look for a new scrollkeeper. Kar is an unlikely candidate, a streetwise young man whose only interest is himself. But when he inadvertently saves the Bulletproof Monk from capture, the two become partners in a scheme to save the world from the scroll's most avid pursuer. Packed with spectacular special effects and martial arts action, the Monk, Kar, and a sexy Russian mob princess called Bad Girl must struggle to find, face, and fight the ultimate enemy.

Bathory: Countess of Blood

Bathory: Countess of Blood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-07-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, UK, France

Runtime:

141 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(3216 Reviews)

Director:

Juraj Jakubisko

Cast:

Writer:

Juraj Jakubisko

John Paul Chapple (additional script material written by)

Lubomèr Feldek (additional script material written by)

Fullplot:

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and wealth.

The Abandoned

The Abandoned

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-02-23

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

Spain, UK, Bulgaria

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (10597 Reviews)

Director:

Nacho Cerdè

Cast:

Writer:

Karim Hussain (screenplay)

Nacho Cerdè (screenplay)

Richard Stanley (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 1966, somewhere in Russia, a wounded woman drives a truck to an isolated farm with two babies. Forty years later, the film producer Marie Jones leaves her daughter in California and travels back to her home land in the wilderness of Russia. Marie is one of the children and had received a phone call from the notary public Andrei Misharin that had told her where the farm of her family is. Marie arrives in the abandoned house and meets the stranger Nicolai that tells her that he had also received a call from Misharin and he is her twin brother. Weird things happen in the house and Marie and Nicolai are haunted by eerie ghosts of themselves. Further, they find that they are trapped in the house and can not leave the place.

Alois Nebel

Alois Nebel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-09-29

Languages:

Czech

Countries:

Czech Republic, Germany

Runtime:

84 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1053 Reviews)

Director:

Tomès Lunèk

Cast:

Writer:

Jaroslav Rudis (concept)

Jaromèr Svejdèk (concept)

Fullplot:

Set in 1989 at the end of the Communist era even as the Berlin Wall was falling, a humble train dispatcher who's lived all his life in a small hamlet on the Czech side of the Czech-Polish border has been tormented by disturbing dreams about what happened to his ethnic German babysitter at the end of WW II. At the same time, a strange man of few to no words (is he mute?) in his mid 40s, shows up in the small hamlet with an old photograph and an ax. Much ensues...

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