Jan Švankmajer Movies

  • 1983
    The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope

    The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope

    The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope

    6.81983HD

    A short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".

    The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope
  • 1988
    Alice

    Alice

    Alice

    7.41988HD

    A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded...

    Alice
  • 1972
    Moje první benefice

    Moje první benefice

    Moje první benefice

    01972HD

    Moje první benefice
  • 1978
    Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

    Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

    Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

    7.61978HD

    When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes...

    Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
  • 2001
    Little Otik

    Little Otik

    Little Otik

    72001HD

    When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the...

    Little Otik
  • 1994
    Faust

    Faust

    Faust

    7.51994HD

    A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to...

    Faust
  • 1983
    Dimensions of Dialogue

    Dimensions of Dialogue

    Dimensions of Dialogue

    7.71983HD

    A three-part depiction of various forms of communication.

    Dimensions of Dialogue
  • 2005
    Lunacy

    Lunacy

    Lunacy

    6.92005HD

    A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they...

    Lunacy
  • 1982
    Ferat Vampire

    Ferat Vampire

    Ferat Vampire

    5.61982HD

    A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a...

    Ferat Vampire
  • 1967
    Historia Naturae (suita)

    Historia Naturae (suita)

    Historia Naturae (suita)

    6.31967HD

    An eight-part animated portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music. The various parts are: Aquatilia (foxtrot), Hexapoda...

    Historia Naturae (suita)
  • 1989
    Darkness, Light, Darkness

    Darkness, Light, Darkness

    Darkness, Light, Darkness

    7.61989HD

    A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much...

    Darkness, Light, Darkness
  • 1989
    Meat Love

    Meat Love

    Meat Love

    6.7371989HD

    The story takes place entirely on a kitchen counter and sees two slices of raw meat as protagonists. The first slice is courted by the second and...

    Meat Love
  • 1988
    Virile Games

    Virile Games

    Virile Games

    6.81988HD

    A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players...

    Virile Games
  • 1992
    Food

    Food

    Food

    7.81992HD

    BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser - and the same fate befalls the man...

    Food
  • 1996
    Conspirators of Pleasure

    Conspirators of Pleasure

    Conspirators of Pleasure

    6.91996HD

    Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she...

    Conspirators of Pleasure
  • 1982
    Visitors from the Galaxy

    Visitors from the Galaxy

    Visitors from the Galaxy

    4.51982HD

    Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is...

    Visitors from the Galaxy
  • 1966
    Punch and Judy

    Punch and Judy

    Punch and Judy

    6.41966HD

    Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.

    Punch and Judy
  • 1964
    The Last Trick

    The Last Trick

    The Last Trick

    6.71964HD

    Two magicians, Mr.Schwarzwald and Mr.Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.

    The Last Trick
  • 1965
    J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor

    J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor

    J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor

    61965HD

    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...

    J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor
  • 1968
    The Garden

    The Garden

    The Garden

    71968HD

    Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact...

    The Garden