The Great Cheese Conspiracy

The Great Cheese Conspiracy 1986

7.70

Three mice live in a cinema. One day, inspired by the gangster movies, they decide to conduct a grand robbery in a cheese shop.

1986

Words, Words, Words

Words, Words, Words 1993

5.80

In a cafe, people talk, their words become expresively-shaped balloons. An older waiter tries to connect with a young woman who's reading. She brushes him off, but gets into an animated and romantic conversation with a young man. A dog goes from table to table drinking beer and wine when people aren't looking. Older men talk about sexual conquests until one of their wives interrupts them. The young couple argues; he starts to leave, she pleads, he leaves anyway. The waiter tries to help. Old guys talk until they nod off. Women chat. Later, as the waiter cleans up, the finds the young woman's book. He sighs, the dog sleeps it off.

1993

The Creation of the World

The Creation of the World 1958

6.90

La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the film was animated in Czechoslovakia and directed by Eduard Hofman. It is adapted from a series of five books by Jean Effel, a French caricaturist and illustrator. The visual style is adapted from his drawings. The film is a comedy about the creation of the universe in six days, with the devil messing around and contributing in his own way.

1958

Springman and the SS

Springman and the SS 1946

5.83

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the Prague-occupying SS troops in World War II.

1946

The Gift

The Gift 1947

5.20

Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon praised as the Citizen Kane of animation.

1947

Revenge

Revenge 1968

1

An animated Gothic tale based on Gérard de Nerval’s short story about a young man crossed in love, who asks the wizard Gonin for help and suffers the consequences.

1968

How sun gave puppy its water back

How sun gave puppy its water back 1960

1

The sun is shining bright today! The Puppy would like to drink some water to cool off, but his bowl is empty! He goes to question the farm animals to find out where he can quench their thirst.

1960

Bomb Mania

Bomb Mania 1959

1

Anti-war animation about man's passions for self-destruction by experimenting with dangerous chemicals.

1959

O kohoutkovi a slepičce

O kohoutkovi a slepičce 1954

3.00

Cartoon based on the theme of the national artist Maria Majerová; the fairy tale of the hen and the rooster shows how ugly selfishness is and how nice it is when one helps the other.

1954