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- On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
- The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.
- The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.
- When a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people. Among them Angelika, who just escaped from a ruthless weapon dealer's ship, and her two brothers, who are searching her. Then there's a group of natives, who plan a rebellion against the French colonists. All these conflicts become secondary when the people finally realize that they are doomed to live together on an alien planet. However this time of peace and world-happiness won't last for long...
- A young gynecologist 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.
- A boy named Max imagines he is "Where The Wild Things Are''.
- Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
- Tom finds Jerry helping a mad scientist switch the minds of various creatures.
- Little Rehor isn't allowed to play with the other boys. His only friend is the girl next door, Luci. Rehor's father works as a doctor on a ship and he has sent Rehor a package with butterfly larvae. When they hatch he discover a fairy who can do magic tricks.
- A mockumentary-style adaptation of the gothic 1764 novel of the same name, which includes Terry Gilliam-like animations throughout.
- A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways.
- Lewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.
- Thirty female students in a second-year grammar school are resisting the efforts of old professor Machacek to teach them Pythagoras' theorem. But then, via a collective classroom vision, the young, good-looking teacher Ludolf appears and decides to put the complicated maths equation to music.
- A sci-fi film that is an allegory about the suicidal character of war waged by militant factions. A military scientist who originally intends to breed perfect robots - crabs, based on the principle "the strongest survive", that would live on metal and would be an ideal diversionary weapon - finds his plans turned against him but it is too late to change it.
- Vasek and Honza, two pupils of an elementary school in a small village, artfully move through the expositions of the Brno fair. They collect many leaflets, thoroughly inspect everything and constantly gorge themselves with various delicacies, which gives Vasek a bad stomach. The next day, however, everything is all right. These two boys, whose overactive imaginations keep them far from the top of the class, tell their classmates about their adventures, both real and made-up. In their dreamed-up world, there is an automatic machine which can fulfill one wish to everybody.
- Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
- Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.
- Buoyant illustrations dance across the screen as Pete Seeger sings and plays his favorite folk song about a bullfrog who falls in the mud.
- This is a deviously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.
- A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.
- The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.
- Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.
- Medieval Europe, during the Inquisition. The end of the XVI century. In Austria, Burgenland, a suburb of Vienna, there is the small town of Eseldorf (literally "donkey village" (a combination of the words German esel and German dorf)) (not existing in reality), which is almost completely subordinate to the chairman of the spiritual tribunal, is visited by a strange young man, introduced himself to the boys who met him, Philip Traum - a traveler and a magician. Later, Traumus confesses that he is Satan (or is also the nephew of Satan). The boys turned to him with requests, they were delighted with each new trick of the mysterious stranger, and, not fearing the consequences, they asked him to predict their fate. However, the predictions are not encouraging, the consequences are not what they wanted. Once again, the boys beg Traum to redo the future .
- Puppet animation feature consisting of different segments related to the traditions and emotions of the seasons as a typical year passes among the Czech people.
- A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.
- Josef shows his friend Frank his garden and his rabbits. Frank is most interested in the unsettling fact that Josef's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.
- A young Czechoslovakian boy and the German shepherd that loves him - set during the Nazi occupation.
- A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
- In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic. As the visitor's stay at the mansion continues, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax, and he must choose between his concern for his hosts' safety, and his own.
- Auntie tries to make her Nephew smile by doing goofy stuff. Tee nephew does not smile until Auntie gives up goes away and NEVER come baque.
- On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of her mother, the Queen's secret, early love. The Princess goes into the forest to meet her mother's former lover. When she looks into his eyes she realizes why her mother had fallen in love.
- A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).
- Adventures of Katka, a 10 years old girl, who is spending her summer holidays in a village at her relative's place, uncle Jozo, and is ready to put his bachelor's household in order.
- An eight-part portrait of animal species in the different biological classes, accompanied by a different style of music. Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.
- Thieves Svarc and Cihák are interrupted in their robbery of a jeweler's store. In order to disappear as quickly as possible, they jump into the nearest car and leave, finding on the way that a little boy named Jirka, son of the car's owner, is with them. They take him to a cottage where Cihák's eighteen-year old daughter Milena attends to him. Jirka first treats Milena with hostility, but as days pass, the "prisoner" and the "guard" become close. Milena cooks for the boy and takes care of him, but nothing can intimidate the dauntless Jirka and he seeks for the first opportunity to escape.
- A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.
- A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision...
- Little Pepík from a children home and the train dispatcher "Captain" Korda (Vladimír Brabec) become friends in a hospital where they are both undergoing therapy. Korda loves children, and since he lives in a marriage without issue, he takes the boy home when his treatment is over. Pepík is very happy at the Kordas'. He discovers a new world there, new experiences, friendship and kindness.
- Sendak's classic comic fantasy of Mickey's adventures in the night kitchen tells us how we get our morning cake.
- A stop-motion film with no dialogue. A musician plays his music to animals. A Lion shows up.
- Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopic revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.