Adapting Jaroslav Hasek's raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada's equally famous illustrations to garrulous puppet life, posed Trnka one of his biggest creative challenges. Trnka himself felt that the final episode was the most artistically successful, but there's much to enjoy in all three, not least the way that the lackadaisical layabout Svejk's own self-serving anecdotes are realized through cut-out animation.

Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish sh...
The story chronicles four decades in the lives of a family deeply rooted in the soil of Northeast Ch...

Nie Xiaoqian was betrayed and died with hatred. She turned into a ghost after death and was imprison...

A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete.

Five teenage girls navigate the twists and turns of their complicated emotional lives, and learn the...

A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Lov...

Near Christmas, Robert "Bob The Builder" McGraw Jr. and his machine team gang of talking constructio...

Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner...

Peter is a cheerful -- but not very obedient -- boy from a very ordinary family in pre-war Rotterdam...

Terajima Mikako became a boys volleyball team coach at a junior high school she has been assigned to...

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgi...

Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themse...

Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in t...

Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpubl...

A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she ...

The true story of B.: Torn between a cold relationship with K. and her feelings for another woman, s...

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking ...

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possess...

Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude F...