In this early stop-motion film by Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer, a device consisting of a clock, a pendulum, a faucet and a bucket enacts a series of events whenever the clock chimes.

A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.

"The stone from the stars" is about widowed Gustav who is almost perished after his wife died.

Engaged to the daughter of an aging baron, an ambitious advertising executive wishes to renovate the baron’s crumbling castle into a holiday getaway for the social elite. In his zeal to seal the deal, he manages to alienate his friends, lose his fiancee, and end up with nothing.

On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot to death in Sarajewo.

His assassination caused a chain of events that brought about World War I and the downfall of old Europe.

Who is the assassin?

Who is GAVRE PRINCIP, a man that fate brought into the center of world attention.

The subject of the film is not the historical background but rather the psychological makeup of PRINCIP at the age of seventeen.

A portrait of the poet Jana Černá, daughter of Franz Kafka's lover Milena Jesenská. Behind the bright facade on contemporary Prague, with its travel agencies and McDonalds, there is a tunnel leading to the world behind the postcards. Here, Jana's friends, Prague freaks, poets and philosophers, tell of this exceptional, passionate woman. With the surreal humour of Prague and with a little nostalgia they recall Jana Černá's excesses, her inability to follow rules, and her magnificent lies...

When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.