Movie Database

Movies by Director - Jan Svankmajer (34 [Missing: 1])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
Last Trick, The [Poslední trik pana Schwarcewalldea a pana Edgara]Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.1964Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Fantasy6.9 (1K votes)1220231001
J.S. Bach - Fantasy in G Minor [J.S. Bach Fantasia g moll]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.1965Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Music,Short6.3 (839 votes)1020231001
Game with Stones, A [Hra s kameny]Stones of different shapes and colors live and die together.1965Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Short6.9 (1K votes)820231001
Et CeteraA small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.1966Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Short6.4 (948 votes)820231001
Punch and Judy [Rakvickarna]Two puppets, Punch and Joey, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.1966Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Horror7.1 (1.1K votes)1020231001
Historia Naturae, SuitaAn 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.1967Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Short6.8 (741 votes)920211228
Flat, The [Byt]A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.2006Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Fantasy7.6 (1.8K votes)1320231001
Picnic with Weissmann [Picknick mit Weismann]Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.1969Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Short7.0 (873 votes)1120231001
Garden, The [Zahrada]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.1968Jan SvankmajerDrama,Short7.4 (670 votes)1720211228
Quiet Week in the House, A [Tichý týden v dome]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...1969Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Short6.6 (803 votes)2020231001
Don Juan [Don Sajn]The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.1969Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Drama7.0 (474 votes)3020231001
Ossuary, The [Kostnice]A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).1970Jan SvankmajerDocumentary,Horror,Short7.1 (806 votes)1020211228
JabberwockyLewis 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.1971Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Fantasy,Short7.3 (1.4K votes)1420211228
Leonardo's Diary [Leonarduv denik]Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.1974Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Short6.3 (536 votes)1220231001
Castle of Otranto, The [Otrantský zámek]A mockumentary-style adaptation of the gothic 1764 novel of the same name, which includes Terry Gilliam-like animations throughout.1977Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Horror,Mystery6.8 (552 votes)1720231001
Fall of the House of Usher, The [Zánik domu Usherú]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...1982Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Horror,Short6.9 (779 votes)1520231001
Dimensions of Dialogue [Moznosti dialogu]Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.1983Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Fantasy8.1 (4.7K votes)1220231001
Down to the Cellar [Do pivnice]A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.1983Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Fantasy,Horror7.6 (1.1K votes)1520221116
Pendulum, the Pit and Hope, The [Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje]A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.1983Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Fantasy,Horror7.6 (1K votes)1520231001
Manly Games [Muzné hry]A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways.1988Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Horror7.4 (1.3K votes)1420231001
Alice [Neco z Alenky]A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.1988Jan SvankmajerAdventure,Animation,Fantasy7.5 (12.5K votes)8620211228
Darkness_Light_Darkness [Tma_Svetlo_Tma]A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.1989Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Fantasy7.9 (4.8K votes)820231001
Death of Stalinism in Bohemia, The [Konec stalinismu v Cechách]A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of the subject is essential in orde...1991Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Short7.5 (1.3K votes)1020231001
Food [Jidlo]Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.1992Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Fantasy8.0 (3.3K votes)1720221116
FaustAn ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.1994Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Drama7.4 (3.8K votes)9720211228
Conspirators of Pleasure [Spiklenci slasti]Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes.1996Jan SvankmajerComedy,Drama7.4 (3.4K votes)8520211228
FloraThe last moments of a creature made out of fruits and vegetables.1989Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Drama,Fantasy6.5 (1.4K votes)120231001
Meat Love [Zamilované maso]Two pieces of meat fall in love.1989Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Fantasy7.0 (2.3K votes)120231001
Greedy Guts [Otesánek]A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the thing comes to life and demands to be fed.2000Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Drama7.3 (6.3K votes)13220211228
Lunacy [Saleni]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 seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predic2005Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Drama7.3 (3.7K votes)11820211228
Surviving Life -Theory and Practice [Prezít svuj zivot - teorie a praxe]The film uses a mix of cut-out animation from photographs and live-action segments, and tells the story of a married man who lives a double life in his dreams, where he is married to another woman.2010Jan SvankmajerAnimation,Comedy,Fantasy7.3 (1.3K votes)10920211228
KunstkameraAn astonishing array of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, objects and materials fill room after room - but this is not a museum open to the general public. It is the home of the celebrated artist couple Jan Svankmajer and h...2022Jan SvankmajerDocumentary6.2 (14 votes)11320231013
Insect [Hmyz]Amateur actors rehearsing ""Pictures from the Insects' Life"". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. ""Insects"", is intercut with the creative process of the film itself and intervie...2018Jan SvankmajerComedy,Drama6.2 (505 votes)9820231001
Clovek a technikaNA1967 Animation,Short Not Available