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- A young boy becomes an apprentice for a mysterious sorcerer, working at the sorcerer's strange and sinister mill where secretive black magic is being taught and performed at a very heavy price.
- A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil.
- Madeline is 13 years old, as are her two friends, and nothing looks the same to her. Her sister is leaving to study medicine, and there's Freddy who's looking at her as no one has before. But she still doesn't want to become an adolescent. A tragic accident and the help of an eccentric aunt who just arrived in her life will help her to pass the barrier.
- Telling the story of a lonely woman in 19th-century Russia who falls in love with one of her husband's workers and is driven to murder.
- In 1943, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down. The story of a drug - its discovery in the Basel chemistry lab, the first experiments by Albert Hofmann on himself, the 1950s experiments of the psychiatrists, the consciousness researchers, the artists. Could it actually be possible to find a path to the core of our human existence by means of a chemical? Spirituality at the flick of a switch? Do the enigmatic effects of this drug really help us to better understand the human soul? Could LSD be an instrument of contemporary psychiatry? Of modern brain research?
- His Czech was poor. On arrival he was silent, inhibited, insular. Later he gradually adapted, and made some contact. Unfamiliar with basic concepts, he does not even know how to listen to a fairy tale or recognize colors. He lacks basic hygiene habits. Sometimes very affectionate. At other times truculent. He lacks self control and is impulsive. He is usually alone and behaves aggressively towards the other children. These bouts are often followed by great shows of overbearing affection and pampering, to the point of discomfort. He does not understand the rules to games. But nonetheless interferes and spoils them for the others. He demands attention and when he does not get it he imposes himself and clamors in an undisciplined manner. He is too familiar. He has an apathetic look which is at the same time sly. On June 11th he insisted on telling his story. He tried to finish it even though he did not have permission to speak. Repeated admonished. He continued to speak. To finish his story. He grabbed hold of adults and forced them to listen. He raised his voice. When he is severely reprimanded he responds with foul language. He refuses to accept punishment. He is uncooperative and arrogant. An outsider. A gypsy.
- After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and remove their testicles.
- A family series set in a children's hospital and how diabetes, bed wetting and other medical problems are dealt with.
- A farmer who takes to drink and meets the devil; a young boy who has to spend the night in a haunted pub; a man who grows horns overnight; a man who bets and argues with his wife; and a blacksmith who is perhaps too trusting of his young and sexy wife.
- George was a dog. His mother was a dog too. George made different sounds, which made his mother take him to the vet/veterinarian. A veterinarian/vet will take an animal's health and temperatures. The vet said "Please bark, George" every single time after George's mother went on very desperate. Which was a reference to when George made strange sounds a dog doesn't say, George's mother tells before it happens, "No, George. A ___ goes "___". A dog goes "arf!" Now bark, George." Good thing George said the right thing. But before it happened, the vet put on his latex gloves and pulled out the animals.
- The Duncan family is beside itself when son Sylvester turns himself into a rock to escape the jaws of a hungry lion.
- Television adaptation of the book by the same name, read out loud, with added music and animation elements. The anthropomorphic bunny, Emily starts kindergarten and learns to count from one to one hundred, while making new friends, and learning to read and write.
- This film was made as a kind of a "protest-song" against the panic fear of getting old and also against flirtation. The main character (played by Leos Sucharípa) is an elderly man, admittedly competent, but not very responsible. In the continuous fear, he is trying to do as much as he can but, instead of confidence, he only finds out that in the real life one cannot just take but must give as well. Last but not least, one must be able to resign to his age.
- A sarcastic story about a thief who becomes the victim of his own victims. His victims come from the other world and take his most precious possession - his blood. The phantasmal atmosphere of the film is achieved through artificial animation coloring in a motion picture.
- The film contains three Jan Werich's fairy tales, each directed by one artist. The first story sets out to the Sumava mountains in Southern Bohemia to find out whether Ogres ever lived there. The middle tale The Hat and the Little Jay Feather concerns a king who sends his three sons to bring back a hat he left at a tavern when he was young. The third and longest fairy tale Reason and Luck is about the two virtues of the title try to prove their importance by changing the life of a pig herder named Louis.
- A documentary revealing former Czech president Vaclav Havel's private moments and backroom dealings.
- A full-length picture based on the famous novel by Daniel Defoe. The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe's life before and after his stay on the island. Following the principle of setting the novel right, it describes Crusoe's experiences with delicate irony and understanding.
- The film include the story of little Tom Thumb, The Hunchbacks of Damascus, Three Sisters and One Ring, The Sea, Uncle, Why is it Salty?
- Three bears come home from a bicycling trip through the woods to find a little girl "all nice and cozy and fast asleep" in Baby Bear's bed.
- Set in the eighties, the film tells of a young man who gets mixed up with black market moneychangers.
- Once upon a time there was a farmer. His daughter Dora was mean, lazy and quarrelsome, but his stepdaughter Magareta was sweet, pretty and hardworking. So it happened that the servant Hannes fell in love with Magareta. When Hannes asks the farmer for Magareta's hand, the jealous Dora is disappointed. In revenge, she hands Hannes over to the king's soldier recruiters and drives Magareta out of the house. Hannes saves himself to two devilish journeymen, who equip him with some magical things for his further way. The and new strong friends help Hannes to save his Magareta and at the same time free the people from a tyrannical king.
- One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the timelessness of his work is proven by the admiration of the world, including the generation who came to know his music only after his death.
- A humorous story about people who before doing anything imagine all possible unpleasant consequences of their action and in the end decide that they better do not do anything.
- A morality short that humorously deals with current social problems. The conflict is between a child's fantasy and the ignorance of adults who get punished for chastising children for what makes them be children in the first place.
- Prague Stories is a film about relationships and love seen from four different perspectives. The punctuation of four full stops in the film's title represents the film's four directors: Vladimir Michalek, Michaela Pavlatova, Martin SulIk, and Artemio Benki. Each of them has shot a 20-minute episode set in contemporary Prague. Fatal crosses in love affairs, tragi-comic barriers in communication and the uneasy overcoming of distance and alienation are the topics of the individual episodes.
- A humorous criminal story about a dog that knew how to read, appreciated classical music and spoke a foreign language. His primitive master hates his dog's superiority and tries to liquidate it physically.
- In Jiří Barta's imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a wrapped piece of candy, proves elusive. Barta's animation revels in the possibilities of transformation and symbolic logic.
- Lenny comes across some old photos taken during the Prague Spring of 1968. But who is the woman on them? Soon the photos are stolen and his father murdered. He travels to Prague and comes dangerously close to the truth.
- A morality play about human fantasy losing its creativity if it becomes a means of making money. In this film it is the ability of a boy to create colored "nonsense" that becomes a trade for his parents. The colored clouds of the little boy produced on the basis of orders eventually change to gray cubes.
- Egon Bondy prophesies the hell of global capitalism, Jim Cert admits to cooperating with the StB, Jaroslav Foglar cannot find a beer opener, while Ivan Diviscomments on his own funeral.
- One of the moralities of the trio of authors Milos Macourek, Adolf Born and Jaroslav Doubrava. It deals with an important ethical issue of matrimony when one of the partners leaves the other after many years of living together. The concept of the picture is humorous exaggeration, it is full of observations and also a wise view on the problem of gratitude and ungratefulness.
- Responding to a challenge from a film critic who asked what he would do to take advantage of the brief period without censorship under Dubcek in 1968, Nemec shot a documentary interviewing victims of police brutality following an unprecedented demonstration of discontent by students in 1967. The result, equally unprecedented, offers an uncensored record of the times. For the first time Nemec assumed in his film an openly political, even activist position, that he again adopted in his record of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in Oratorio for Prague, which traveled the world. The Communist establishment took notice. In his signature efficient manner, he sets up stage with an energetically edited opening sequence, and throughout the film uses commentary to present the official position in juxtaposition with the students' testimonies to make his argument for free expression.
- A documentary about people in a village on the border between the Czech and Slovak Republics. In one village, inhabitants of one part are Slovaks and the other part Czechs.
- Young people in Czechoslovakia are asked and respond to one simple question, "What is your greatest wish?".