Meat Love

Meat Love 1989

6.74

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

1989

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper 1988

7.40

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.

1988

Philipp Traum

Philipp Traum 1990

5.10

A story based on "The Mysterious Stranger" novel by Mark Twain.

1990

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky 1971

6.50

In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes. Like Carroll's verse, the images are at once familiar and unfamiliar. A child's play suit, hanging in the wardrobe, becomes the adventure's protagonist.

1971

Traja chrobáci

Traja chrobáci 1976

6.80

Three mimes represent beetles in the real world of human habitation, which is proportionally huge for their beetle-like dimensions. They experience an extraordinary adventure of discovering ordinary things in human habitation.

1976

The Balad of Mamelouk

The Balad of Mamelouk 1982

4.00

Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the king offers him the amount of land he can mark off by walking around in one day but he must return to the starting point before sunset.

1982

Food

Food 1996

7.79

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

1996

Poslední leč Alfonse Karáska

Poslední leč Alfonse Karáska 1987

3.50

Alfons Karásek has an important task ahead of him – to introduce his young protégé, who is still very inexperienced in this field, to the art of seducing girls. The opportunity arises on a hunting trip…

1987

Velká sázka o malé pivo

Velká sázka o malé pivo 1982

5.50

The year is 1946 and the story takes us to a great bar among the characters of Prague's gallery. A professional conman, commonly known as "The Engineer", makes a bet with pickpocket Franz that he will sell Karlštejn Castle to a rich American who is currently in Prague...

1982

The Apple Game

The Apple Game 1978

5.90

Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game anymore.

1978

Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are 1975

6.10

A young boy named Max who, after dressing in his wolf costume, wreaks such havoc through his household that he is sent to bed without his supper. Max's bedroom undergoes a mysterious transformation into a jungle environment, and he winds up sailing to an island inhabited by malicious beasts known as the "Wild Things." After successfully intimidating the creatures, Max is hailed as the king of the Wild Things and enjoys a playful romp with his subjects. However, he starts to feel lonely and decides to return home, to the Wild Things' dismay. Upon returning to his bedroom, Max discovers a hot supper waiting for him.

1975

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun 1984

4.80

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.

1984

Moon Man

Moon Man 1981

1

In this classic story by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers for children, the man in the moon looks down on the happy, dancing people on Earth every night, wishing he could join them. He hitches a ride on a passing comet, but quickly finds himself thrown into jail by people who see him as an invader, rather than a friendly visitor. The Moon Man, however, has a most unusual - but perfectly logical - means of escape, and sets out to make his way back home.

1981

The Last Theft

The Last Theft 1987

7.00

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?

1987