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- DirectorJanusz MajewskiStarsJózef DuriaszEdmund FettingGustaw LutkiewiczA pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as a young wife and local peasants whisper the young man may be the son of a bear. A doctor, who treats the mother with old-fashioned remedies, reveals this to the pastor. Young nobleman's wife is found with a bite and the man has disappeared into the woods.
- DirectorAndrzej KotkowskiStarsBeata TyszkiewiczGrazyna SzapolowskaGustaw HoloubekIn a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Middle-aged Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her sensitive artist stepson Jezory so openly that her old husband Dyapanazego takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon - her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lives. She has a posthumous son Tadeusz, "born" by clambering out of the tree trunk. She seduces him too, and drives other men so crazy that they kill her a couple of times.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsCarole LaurePierre ClémentiAnna PrucnalAfter winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsVladimír MensíkJaroslava ObermaierováJosef AbrhámA dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
- DirectorJaroslav BalíkStarsJana BrejchováJan TrískaMartin RuzekThe inventor Petr takes Vera to his laboratory. There he works on a machine to create perfect "golems" or "human doubles". Vera unwittingly creates her own golem.
- DirectorViktor KubalStarsJela Lukesová
- DirectorGeorge RobothamStarsKarin DorJoel FabianiWolfgang BrookThe zombie ghost of a sunken excursion boat captain haunts an Austrian lake in search of vengeance against those who caused the accident.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykStarsGrazyna DlugoleckaJerzy ZelnikOlgierd LukaszewiczA beautiful Polish girl traveling around Europe in search of her lover suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
- DirectorMarek NowickiStarsRoman WilhelmiMarzena TrybalaHanna MikucPiotr Strumienski (Roman Wilhelmi) is driven to the edge by haunting memories of his dead wife Angelika, and because of his obsession, his new wife Ola is driven to taking a lover - who mysteriously becomes paralyzed. Piotr keeps a special house on his property dedicated to Angelika, and he daydreams about making love to her there. His visions are so intense and real, that when he sees his son with a local, mute young woman, he shoots and wounds her because deluded, he thinks she is Angelika. After that tragedy, Piotr razes "Angelika's" house and it looks as though his fixation is healed, and everything should continue as normal - but that turns out to be a deception.
- DirectorMilos ZábranskýStarsKarel RodenVáclav PostráneckýVictoria KidaneA tribe of survivors take possession of a large but rundown building, killing all who put up resistance - but they don't know that the building is cursed by some demon god and haunted by a girl in white that seems to know a dark secret.
- DirectorHarald ReinlStarsUwe BeyerRolf HennigerSiegfried WischnewskiVolker von Alzey, the royal bard of the Burgunds (far greater then modern Burgundy), ruled by the Christian, papist king Gunther, who has two brave, loyal brothers and a sister Kriemhild, tells in rhyme the tale of Siegfried of Xanthen, who in the northern kingdom of the Lowlands was a forgery apprentice, till his jealous rival's attack made him drench his blade in blood, which made it all-splitting, the right means to slay the feared-most dragon, Rachnir, whose blood makes him, once bathed in it, invulnerable; Alberich, king of the Alves, whose helmet of invisibility he beats, shows him the dragon-protected ring of the Nibelungen, and he sets out by ship for Iceland, to awake its maiden queen Brunhild, but refuses to stay with her, returning southward to rule from Xanthen on the Rhine and seek himself a queen. Siegfried challenges Gunther at Easter to a duel for both realms, is however proposed instead a preferable marital alliance with Gunther's sister Kriemhild. Just after their betrothal invades Ludegast, king of the Saxons, who however swears allegiance to Burgundy when defeated but spared in duel by Siegfried. Now Gunther demands, for Kriemhild's hand, Siegfried gets him Brunhild as politically ideal bride for Burgundy. Siegfried manages this, but only by using more magic, which will later come at a terrible price...
- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsCatherine JourdanPierre ZimmerRichard LeducA 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.
- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsJean-Louis TrintignantSylvie BréalZuzana KocúrikováOn the run from pursuing soldiers, a man hides in a small European town.
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsStarsGyörgy CserhalmiAnikó NagyErzsi PártosA traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death.
- DirectorRumen PetkovStarsRobert AxelrodRobert V. BarronRobin LevensonA villain wants to stop the crew from getting to a gem that will bring life back to earth
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsStarsGyörgy CserhalmiVera PapGyula SzabóIn this dreamlike Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.
- DirectorPiotr KamlerStarsMichael LonsdaleWeary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsH. HustolesovaZdenek KrízPeople living on an island finds a treasure, but it does not only do them good.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsJan TrískaStories from the three-year journey of the world-famous Sinbad.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsOtakar BrousekAntonín ProcházkaFrantisek FilipovskýYoung knight John travels the world in search of fame and fortune, but also to help others and prove himself. However, things go dire fast and he becomes burdened with life's hardships. But then he meets a pretty water nymph, Mary.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsHanus BorJan CizekJan MalátFive young boys take off in a lighter-than-air machine from the Centenary Exposition in Prague.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsLudek MunzarJaroslav MouckaChristian BrücknerA young boy becomes an apprentice for a mysterious sorcerer, working at the sorcerer's strange and sinister mill where secretive black magic is being taught and performed at a very heavy price.