Movies by Director - Jan Svankmajer (38 [Missing: 6]) 
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| 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... | 2018 | Jan Svankmajer | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 (505 votes) | 98 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 2010 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.3 (1.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Cinema16: European Short FilmsNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short FilmsNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| 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 predic | 2005 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror | 7.3 (3.7K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Early Years Vol. 1NA | | | | | | Not Available |
| The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Later Years Vol. 2NA | | | | | | Not Available |
| 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. | 2000 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (6.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Conspirators of Pleasure [Spiklenci slasti]Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes. | 1996 | Jan Svankmajer | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (3.4K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| FaustAn ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend. | 1994 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.4 (3.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Food [Jidlo]Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner. | 1992 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 8.0 (3.3K votes) | 17 | 20221116 |
| 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... | 1991 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short | 7.5 (1.3K votes) | 10 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1989 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.9 (4.8K votes) | 8 | 20231001 |
| FloraThe last moments of a creature made out of fruits and vegetables. | 1989 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.5 (1.4K votes) | 1 | 20231001 |
| Meat Love [Zamilované maso]Two pieces of meat fall in love. | 1989 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.0 (2.3K votes) | 1 | 20231001 |
| Animated Self-PortraitsNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Hugh Cornwell - Another Kind of LoveSvankmajer's music video for Hugh Cornwell's ""Another Kind of Love."" | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Music | 6.5 (618 votes) | 4 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Horror, Sport | 7.4 (1.3K votes) | 14 | 20231001 |
| Alice [Neco z Alenky]A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland. | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller | 7.5 (12.5K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1983 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 7.6 (1K votes) | 15 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1983 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Fantasy, Horror | 7.6 (1.1K votes) | 15 | 20221116 |
| Dimensions of Dialogue [Moznosti dialogu]Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society. | 1983 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 8.1 (4.7K votes) | 12 | 20231001 |
| 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... | 1982 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Horror | 6.9 (779 votes) | 15 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1977 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Horror, Mystery | 6.8 (552 votes) | 17 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1974 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short | 6.3 (536 votes) | 12 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1971 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Fantasy | 7.3 (1.4K votes) | 14 | 20211228 |
| Don Juan [Don Sajn]The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets. | 1971 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (474 votes) | 30 | 20231001 |
| 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... | 1969 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short | 6.6 (803 votes) | 20 | 20231001 |
| Picnic with Weissmann [Picknick mit Weismann]Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature. | 1969 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short | 7.0 (873 votes) | 11 | 20231001 |
| Flat, The [Byt]A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature. | 1968 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 7.6 (1.8K votes) | 13 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1968 | Jan Svankmajer | Short, Drama | 7.4 (670 votes) | 17 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1967 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short | 6.8 (741 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Clovek a technikaNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Et CeteraA small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house. | 1966 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short | 6.4 (948 votes) | 8 | 20231001 |
| Punch and Judy [Rakvickarna]Two puppets, Punch and Joey, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig. | 1966 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Horror | 7.1 (1.1K votes) | 10 | 20231001 |
| Game with Stones, A [Hra s kameny]Stones of different shapes and colors live and die together. | 1965 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short | 6.9 (1K votes) | 8 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1965 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Music | 6.3 (839 votes) | 10 | 20231001 |
| 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. | 1964 | Jan Svankmajer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.9 (1K votes) | 12 | 20231001 |