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- On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
- The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.
- The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.
- 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.
- 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...
- Tom finds Jerry helping a mad scientist switch the minds of various creatures.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.
- Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
- 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.
- 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 nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
- A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.
- 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 zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.
- A mockumentary-style adaptation of the gothic 1764 novel of the same name, which includes Terry Gilliam-like animations throughout.
- 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.
- 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...
- A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.
- The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.
- Prisoner Ivan (Ivan Straus), a talented violin player, performs for Hauptsturmführer SS Hecht in his office. The one-armed Hecht (Josef Somr) by turns listens and talks to Ivan, whose sympathy he would like to gain. It would be enough for Hecht if Ivan only said that he has nothing in common with the other prisoners. But Ivan does not betray his people. He says nothing and, in his imagination, sees a revolt of the prisoners, their fight with the Germans and their dogs and Hecht's death.
- A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.
- 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.
- A young Czechoslovakian boy and the German shepherd that loves him - set during the Nazi occupation.
- 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.
- 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 .
- 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 man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways.
- With the holiday season approaching, poor Reuven, the furrier, has no recourse but to sell the family's beloved goat for supplies. But Aaron has other ideas!
- Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A stop-motion film with no dialogue. A musician plays his music to animals. A Lion shows up.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two dwarfs - one bright blue and the other bright red - get into a fight, and each calls in a similarly colored giant to fight their battle.
- A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).
- According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's cottage hangs a picture showing silver firs, a person falling from a height and a watch. In art lessons Ondra paints trees of the same kind. - One day Lojzek Hojgr, a man who climbs fir trees to gather the seeds, comes to see Ondra's parents. Long-ago Ondra's father has had such a job and Lojzek is his long-time friend. Hojgr moves into a half-ruined wood cabin. Ondra's father takes him on a visit to Lojzek and both demonstrate the beautiful but dangerous work of seed-gathering to the boy.
- The tragic tale of a motorcyclist who, happily on his way to meet his fiance, stops at a tavern with disastrous consequences.