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- A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
- On the run from pursuing soldiers, a man hides in a small European town.
- The Feather Fairy lives in the sky and gives snow to the people. She lives with a boy called Jakob, who one day ventures into the human world and falls for a peasant girl.
- A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.
- Three adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.
- Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in his life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and craftsmanship. He has a passion for art but he also has to make a living. Through his relationships with close people, he grows aware of his position and this knowledge helps him to live a more fulfilling and better life.
- 1514. The peasants' uprising is over, Dózsa has been arrested. Werboczy tries to get the imprisoned peasant leader deny the revolution and offers him the lives of his people in exchange. In the breaks between the interrogations, Dózsa's recollections recount the events of the uprising. The battles have been accompanied by his disputes with priest Lorinc about revolution, the necessity of violence and the ruthless discipline employed towards their own people. His memories confirm Dózsa's decision. He denies nothing, accepting his execution and the throne on fire.
- This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Lepis, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He loses his beloved, his home, and his freedom due to false accusations. After years he returns to his native village. Putting his own life to risk, he saves a herd of cattle from a forest fire in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps him to win back the friendship of the locals.
- As a car full of an assortment of characters rolls down an embankment and bursts into flames, the old driver says "See You in Hell, Friends." The relations between the characters are shown in flashbacks. The pretty Rita and her fiancee Petras meet the old colonel, and come to live in his farmhouse. Rita marries the colonel as well as her fiancee, and has a daughter Christine. The colonel's supposed father shows up, and also makes amorous advances on Rita. They all live blissfully together until two holy women with axes arrive. The women start chopping down trees to build an ark. Rita starts having nightmares and Christine is crucified.
- The action of the film takes place in the course of one night at a fashionable nightclub in Bratislava. The leading characters are two young girls who are spending their holiday in Bratislava and two boys who live there.
- A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang.
- A psychological drama of the illness of an individual and the illness of the society.
- A girl is transformed into a maple tree by her impulsive and angry mother. Three poor wandering musicians come by the tree and create instruments from it. Walking around the country instead of happiness they bring death everywhere with their cursed instruments. However they cannot get rid of them, unless they bury the wooden instruments at the place of the tree. The three are anything but harmonious, each taking in their disputes various stances.
- A group of artists meets a beautiful and mysterious woman called Anabella, and all of them experience passion, dreams and get inspired by her.
- Five high-school senior girls, who because of a prank, are falsely accused of signing a pact with the devil to lose their virginity before they graduate.
- Fascist Slovak State, Christmas Day 1944: regardless of this important Christian holiday, cruel Nazi repression is taking place in Slovakia. Men, women and children are executed by the hundreds by the Germans for taking part in the Slovak National Uprising and for merely helping the partisans. The Kubis family tries to survive the war as best they can, even if it means collaboration. Son Marian is a commander of the fascist guards, his cynical brother-in-law Palo runs a business and tries to keep a low profile as much as possible. Palo's wife Angela has begun an affair with Nazi Major Brecker, who is staying with the Kubis. However, a serious threat to everyone, including the grandparents, comes from their nineteen-year-old son Juraj, who fought with the partisans and managed to escape execution. The young man arrives home with an injured leg. While the Germans carry out house-to-house searches for the fugitive, Juraj waits in the attic for medical help and begins to delirious with fever. An "idyllic" Christmas Eve dinner takes place downstairs, to which Major Brecker himself has invited himself.
- This is a tragicomic story about boys who even in times of war remember how to play soldiers, dream of heroic deeds, spy on girls, show off in front of friends, and make up fantastic adventures.
- In this experimental film the same dialogue is treated by three directors in three different settings. In one 20 year old's speak the words, in the other two 40 and 60 year old's. The dialogue itself involves a man coming home to humiliation, the reconciliation followed again by separation. It is the obscure nature of the dialogue that allows the different treatments.
- A dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in the High Tatras. On the arrival of the wife of one of them their perfect friendship is put to a test.
- The story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.
- Following Viktor Kolibec a soldier of the slovak troops of the 71th regiment of the Austria-Hungarian army. And their uprising against their commanders.
- Two ex-soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after World War One.
- Two days before Christmas. Zuzanka and Tomás, friends from a kindergarten wander off during a walk. They admire toys and decoration in shop-windows. Zuzanka shall receive a sledge as a Christmas present and Tomás even a desired little brother. At a shooting gallery Tomás aims at a target on the trunk of a blue elephant which can call in Christmas. The impatient Zuzanka pushes to her friend and he shoots directly to the elephant's red eye. Things which the owner of the shooting gallery warned about happened: the sun popped on the sky, the snow melted and all Christmas shopping has stopped. Both pushful children decide to get a new eye for the elephant so that everything can be set right.
- A sequel to the Copper Tower, Eagle Feather continued the success of its predecessor in many ways. Two inseparable friends, Oldie and Valer, return from prison to the Stratena Valley to start a new life - that of respectable citizens.
- A love story between a young girl and a hunter in the Tatra Mountain of Czechoslovakia.
- A satirical comedy about three friends, caretakers of a mountain hut, who try to save the Lost Valley from a devastating tourist invasion.
- Psychological study of a woman who chooses solitude as an escape from the duplicity and emotional barrenness of the men around her.
- Young couple separated by World War 2, dream of being reunited years later. Unusual (for that time) co-production between Slovakia and Georgia (then part of the USSR).
- A group of Martin furnaces' operators do their best to save the life of their seriously injured friend. In these crucial moments the real character qualities of his co-workers are exposed as well as the emotional and family problems of his own.
- The story of two friends, the astronomer Tur and the sculptor Andrei. It shows their different reactions to the question of life today: what can one man do to save humanity from destruction, to free the world from the constant threat of nuclear war.
- In an old abandoned church, a group of retired people meet, but because of the overload of the younger forces, the re-activated devils are in the process against their colleague, who cried over the fate of man. The dilapidated manor house in Dolní Krupa, remembering the times of Beethoven and his Moonlight Sonatas, now serves as a madhouse and an alcoholic sanatorium; they bring a woman who went crazy when she found out that the defendant had caused her husband to be unfaithful to another, while she, loving Beethoven's sonata, could not be seduced. The bitter irony is the presence of two geniuses: one wanted to make a man noble and human with music - and he lost, the other wanted the opposite - and he also lost. The evil became so great that he would cry over himself and see no other way out for himself than going to the opposite camp.