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- DirectorJán LackoStarsMarián Kleis St.Anton MrveckaIvan Mistrík
- DirectorJosef MachStarsMartin TapákHeda MelicherováKarol L. ZacharThe film captures the search for talented young folk dancers and singers to become members of a professional folk song and dance troupe.
- DirectorPalo BielikStarsSamuel AdamcíkGaspar ArbetDusan BlaskovicFollowing Viktor Kolibec a soldier of the slovak troops of the 71th regiment of the Austria-Hungarian army. And their uprising against their commanders.
- DirectorPalo BielikMartin FricStarsPalo BielikJirina StepnickováJúlius PántikThe first Slovak feature film made after the Second World War. Before the First World War, many Slovaks emigrated to America in search of a better life, because Slovakia was oppressed by the ruling Hungarian government and people could not find work. Like others, Ondrej Muranica, a young mountaineer, goes overseas to find work and earn money for his family in the New World of his dreams. However, his dreams and hopes for a better life are dashed by a mining disaster. Ondrej is saved, but loses his memory. He is declared missing and when he accidentally regains his memory years later, Ondrej decides to return home. Only after returning to his homeland does he discover that his wife Eva has married his best friend Miso. As if on cue, disaster looms.
- DirectorPalo BielikStarsBeta PonicanováJozef BudskýMikulás Huba
- DirectorFrigyes BánVladislav PavlovicStarsSándor PécsiMari TörőcsikKarol MachataA comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.
- DirectorPalo BielikStarsFrantisek KuchtaKarol L. ZacharJaroslav RozsívalThe story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.
- DirectorPeter SolanStarsStefan KvietikManfred KrugValentina ThielováIn a Nazi concentration camp, an escapee awaiting execution is spared when the commandant, a former prize-fighter, discovers the prisoner has amateur boxing ability. Ordered to train, he gradually sharpens his skills.
- DirectorStanislav BarabasStarsKarol MachataJirí SovákRadoslav BartoníkDuring the WW2 a group of Slovak children goes a trip on the mountains with their teacher.
- DirectorStefan UherStarsFrantisek BubikAlexandr BrezinaKamil MarekA young Polish deserter and gifted organist finds shelter from the fascists in a Slovak Franciscan monastery. He gets into a conflict with the local organist and choir leader, a man limited in his world views and spiritual values.
- DirectorEduard GrecnerStarsRadovan LukavskýGustáv ValachEmília VásáryováThis is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Lepis, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He loses his beloved, his home, and his freedom due to false accusations. After years he returns to his native village. Putting his own life to risk, he saves a herd of cattle from a forest fire in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps him to win back the friendship of the locals.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsJirí SýkoraJana StehnováVlado MüllerJuraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in his life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and craftsmanship. He has a passion for art but he also has to make a living. Through his relationships with close people, he grows aware of his position and this knowledge helps him to live a more fulfilling and better life.
- DirectorElo HavettaStarsSlavoj UrbanJirí SýkoraNina DivískováThis colorful "fairy"-tale is about the need of miracles in life and of letting the charms of nature, where every single particle is in constant motion, take over as if in an impressionist painting. It is a mosaic built of multiple stories like Pierre's. His arrival disturbs the peace of the wine-growing village of Bábindol but at the same time he shows its inhabitants how to really enjoy life.
- DirectorDusan HanákStarsVáclav LohniskýLucyna WinnickaJosef AbrhámA psychological drama of the illness of an individual and the illness of the society.
- DirectorStefan UherStarsMarián BielikJana BelákováOlga SalagováOldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.
- DirectorPeter SolanStarsJana GýrováJitka ZelenohorskáStano DanciakThe action of the film takes place in the course of one night at a fashionable nightclub in Bratislava. The leading characters are two young girls who are spending their holiday in Bratislava and two boys who live there.
- DirectorDimitrij PlichtaStarsVojtech BrázdovicKarol CálikSlavo DrozdA dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang.
- DirectorPalo BielikStarsVlado MüllerStefan KvietikEmília VásáryováSet in an imaginary Central European town under Turkish control about 300 years ago, this film tells the story of two friends - fisherman Richardus (Stefan Kvietik) and executioner Emil (Vlado Muller). They are proud, defiant men, with Janosik blood flowing through their veins. Their inherent rebelliousness, manifesting itself daily in these times of Turkish subjugation, brings the two allies even closer together.
- DirectorStefan UherStarsJolanta UmeckaLadislav MrkvickaOtakar JandaA group of artists meets a beautiful and mysterious woman called Anabella, and all of them experience passion, dreams and get inspired by her.
- DirectorJozef ZacharStarsIvana KarbanováZuzana KocúrikováMarta RaslováFive high-school senior girls, who because of a prank, are falsely accused of signing a pact with the devil to lose their virginity before they graduate.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsPhilippe AvronJirí SýkoraMagda VásáryováThree adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.
- DirectorMartin HollýStarsStefan KvietikEmília VásáryováIvan RajniakA dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in the High Tatras. On the arrival of the wife of one of them their perfect friendship is put to a test.
- DirectorMartin HollýStarsIvan MistríkIvan RajniakAndrea CunderlíkováA sequel to the Copper Tower, Eagle Feather continued the success of its predecessor in many ways. Two inseparable friends, Oldie and Valer, return from prison to the Stratena Valley to start a new life - that of respectable citizens.
- DirectorStefan UherStarsMarián BernátJozef GráfEmília DosekováThis is a tragicomic story about boys who even in times of war remember how to play soldiers, dream of heroic deeds, spy on girls, show off in front of friends, and make up fantastic adventures.
- DirectorElo HavettaStarsLotar RadványiVladimír KostovicZofia MartisováTwo ex-soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after World War One.
- DirectorMartin TapákStarsJozef KronerDusan BlaskovicKarol CálikBittersweet comedy about opression of poor Slovakian people by Austro-Hungarian aristocracy.
- DirectorDusan HanákStarsJuraj NvotaIva BittováJosef HlinomazJakub, a dreamer and budding magician, juggles between parcels and services rendered to the villagers. His eyes cross that of the beautiful gypsy Jolanka. Together, they will try to live a first and big love, despite the pressure of their respective communities.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsPavel NovýJana BrezinováOndrej PavelkaJuraj Jakubisko's first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matús. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to his goal. It all starts with stealing building material and ends with him disregarding those close to him to a point where his ambitions are turning against him. Build a House, Plant a Tree is a viewer-friendly film with a plot resembling a western, including several attractive action sequences.
- DirectorDusan RaposStarsEva VejmelkováJirí BábekKatarína SugárováA music film about first love, disappointment, friendship, and breaking-up of young people.
- DirectorMiloslav LutherStarsRoman LuknárVladimír HajduGeorgiana TarjanA tragic story depicting two young friends in the period after the wartime Slovak State and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia came into existence. An employee of the Slovak railway company, Viktor Lesa, a Slovak, regularly delivers post to the railway station in the border town of Ludendorf [Breclav]. With the impulsiveness of youth, he intentionally misdirects an important mail delivery. After the Gestapo shows up in the town, he is forced to flee across the border together with his Czech colleague and Jewish postal clerk Frantisek Tichácek.
- DirectorKveto HeckoMichal RuttkayVladimir StricStarsPavel ZednícekMiroslav DonutilJaroslav FilipA film based on three short stories about the attitudes of ex-members of a then forbidden big beat band. The stories capture the life-styles and opinions of the musicians who gave up music and had to find ordinary jobs in order to earn a living.
- DirectorDusan TrancíkStarsMaros KramárGyörgy CserhalmiZlata AdamovskáA story of a young student of medicine, who arrives in a small mountain village after being accused for carrying out illegal abortion. The film reflects the moral decline of the society, where stealing in secret and making compromises against one's beliefs make up mundane reality.
- DirectorDusan HanákStarsRoman KlosowskiIva JanzurováMilan JelicPista, a lonely bachelor, working in a Post office, takes to drinking to get over his small stature and unsightly appearance. He is hopelessly in love with his colleague Viera, who in turn is haplessly in love with Pista's friend Vinco. With fate being his adversary, he tries to make up for his situation with humor.
- DirectorMartin HollýStarsRadoslav BrzobohatýMichal DocolomanskýSona ValentováTwo men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax in the closing shoot-out. Instead of the Wild West, the gunshots go off on the Slovak-Polish border. Michal Docolomansky as the horse smuggler and Radoslav Brzobohaty as the customs officer from Prague meet in Holly's Night Riders in a western-like confrontation set in the insecure years of the newly founded Czechoslovak Republic.
- DirectorStefan UherStarsEmilia ZimkováVeronika JeníkováValéria JergováJohanka (Milka Zimkova) had a fling with a well digger (Peter Vons) she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. 18 years later (her now 18-year-old daughter Paulina, Veronika Jenikova) commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka (Marie Logojdova) who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek (Jiri Klepl) only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka (Ivan Klecka) who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see abortion or marriage as Paulina's only options, and places personals on her behalf. Although Stefan (Lubomír Paulovic), one of the men who respond, turns out to be less than ideal, Paulina falls for him. As Stefan's car breaks down on the way to the elaborate wedding party and the cake adorned with a doll he is bringing begins to melt in the heat, Paulina, in her wedding dress and tipsy before the ceremony, suffers miscarriage, perhaps as a result of Johanka's earlier attempt to induce abortion that would look as if it occurred spontaneously. The car that carries Paulina to the hospital passes Stefan's car towed by a farm tractor, but none of the involved notice.
- DirectorZoro ZahonStarsGábor KonczElo RomancikIldikó PécsiButcher Riecan gets butchery in south Slovakia. His assistant Lancaric deals meat with smugglers. Family wealth is growing. Riečan's wife becomes vain. Riecan left her and becomes laborer. His wife and assistant are uncovered and punished.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsEmil HorváthRenata MaskováAndrej HrycA comedy about Simon, an honest, clever confectioner. The humble bachelor becomes an easy prey to his boss, his mother, and hoards of women eager to get married.