Best Bulgarian animation movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch animation films from Bulgaria, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for A white shoulder for a black man

    A white shoulder for a black man 2024

    A film about the tornado of feelings that rages in the head of a white man, the guide of a blind black musician. The genius, immersed in darkness, gets acquainted with the world of others through the shoulder of his guide. The characters become entangled in a complex psychological relationship and emotional clash.

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  • Poster for The Lighthouse

    The Lighthouse 2009

    The movie tells a story about life's absurdity and the game of destiny which is too cruel at times. This is a movie about the consequences of a taken decision, about love, suffering and death.

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  • Poster for Firebird

    Firebird 2016

    An artistic impression, driven by the rhythm of the music and the freedom of the dance, creates a magical world, where Love is the leading metaphysical force that overpowers life and death.

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  • Poster for Father

    Father 2012

    When did you last talk with your father? Will you ever ask him about those things that hurt you? In FATHER the reality of life is turned upside down to create an impossible dialogue - the dialogue between a child and a father that never happens.

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  • Poster for Lilly and the Magic Pearl

    Lilly and the Magic Pearl 2015

    One submarine fairy-tale, in which the matter is about surface things. Friendship, parting, hope... Words, which we have slightly forgotten in our days, but they are important – and this is why we would like to recollect them again. Little Lilly listens from the telephone box on the beach a fairy-tale, which leads her to the seabed. There she meets an ugly monster – the fish Hrilly – and together they start looking for the magic pearl, which: “Shines in the sea of the children’s games a pearl, which

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  • Poster for Treasure Planet

    Treasure Planet 1982

    Adventurer Felipe ventures on a quest with Commander Smollet to stop a villain in search of a gem that will restore life on Earth.

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  • Poster for Balgar: The Movie

    Balgar: The Movie 2014

    Balgar is a brand known among the 10-18 age group, almost 100%. Balgar is a peculiar subculture phenomenon that in less than five years managed to become a favorite of tens and even hundreds of thousands of teenagers. And now come down from the computer to conquer the big screen. The first Bulgarian full-length animated film from more than 40 years. The first Bulgarian independent animated film. The first Bulgarian 3D Stereoscopic Movie.

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  • Poster for Trace

    Trace 2022

    A young man is trying to hold his life and career together. He writes. When he learns that his wife is pregnant, everything collapses. He enters the dark space of his fears, where he is confronted by memories of his childhood. He needs to face the absence of his own father and embrace the pain. Only then he is ready to accept his newly born child and become a parent.

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  • Poster for Ballad of Ferris the Self-appointed Knight and Smokie the Fire Breathing Dragon

    Ballad of Ferris the Self-appointed Knight and Smokie the Fire Breathing Dragon 2024

    In the form of a ballad, the wandering bard Peyo tells us about the blacksmith Ferris, who decides to become a knight and thus change his fate. The encounter with Smokie the dragon will help him make deep conclusions about his own life.

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  • Poster for Travelling Country

    Travelling Country 2016

    Once upon a time there was a country… People lost it out of stupidity and greed and continued to live in the shadows of a once happy world. Now they are building a new society, but it seems history is repeating itself… Travelling Country is an animated fantasy fairy-tale about the quest for identity and freedom.

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  • Poster for Bango Vassil

    Bango Vassil 2018

    Two children share an altogether different kind of New Year's Eve, taking an icy journey where they must cross waters and cultures to make a fresh start.

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  • Oceania 2021

    A film about the personality as a natural phenomenon and the individual’s instinct. The determination and the fate of a fish out of its school.

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  • Poster for Balgar: The Movie 2 - Space Adventure

    Balgar: The Movie 2 - Space Adventure 2017

    The sequel to Balgar: The Movie. The characters go to a scary mansion where a lot of things happen to them.

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  • Poster for Mishou

    Mishou 2020

    Far and wide only snow, ice and a pleasant silence. Until a helicopter drops a load of noisy tourists. A humorous animation about animalistic interaction and the human ignorance of nature.

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  • Poster for Forest Republic

    Forest Republic 1953

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  • Poster for February

    February 1978

    In the village, snow-covered, you can hear the terrible howl of a wolf. One by one, the peasants ride on a sledge to kill him. However, each time the sleigh returns without a person. The women from the village are scared. They take it upon themselves to find their men and find them in a pub to eat and drink. The men are having fun, but don't forget to send someone outside to howl like a wolf. Women attack men.

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  • Poster for To Put It Mildly

    To Put It Mildly 2022

    Little Svetlio has taken the six plastic Indians in his crib and is struggling to sleep. Suddenly, a big Dog appears in the room and explains to Svetlio his mission - he has come to save him. Firstly, because he is a St. Bernard by nature. Svetlio goes on an adventure because of a simple lie.

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  • Poster for Canfilm

    Canfilm 1990

    Zlatin Radev’s pixilated Canfilm (1990) from Bulgaria is a brilliant, often hilarious political allegory about tin cans that live in cartons resembling skyscrapers and are periodically relabeled by the powers that be.

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  • Poster for Shock

    Shock 1993

    A bored cartoonist draws a pretty woman. Then, a discarded character, a strongman, comes to life and approaches the woman, and the cartoonist finds himself snatched into the paper world., where he battles the strongman, in an effort to impress the woman.

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  • Poster for The Daisy

    The Daisy 1965

    Neither scissors nor saw will help the gardener to get rid of a daisy that has had the audacity to grow in the wrong place, but she herself cannot resist the gaze of a little girl.

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  • Poster for 7596 Frames

    7596 Frames 2012

    Bulgarian director Martin Georgiev's film traces the evolution of a particle in a black-and-white geometrical world where the choices it makes will shape its form and its form will shape its choices.

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  • Poster for A Marriage

    A Marriage 1984

    A groom-to-be wakes up in the morning of his wedding to strange visions triggered by his impatience... Though the nuptial feast is in full flow, the groom is still daydreaming. On the wedding night, the bride ups and melts away before his eyes exhaling air as a deflated balloon...

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  • Poster for Zoetrope

    Zoetrope 2017

    Two robots journey through a labyrinth and encounter curious characters and extraordinary objects as they reflect on their own existence.

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  • Poster for Beach

    Beach 1985

    A peaceful day at the beach for the frogs is thwarted by an invasion of birds.

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  • Poster for The Kettle-Drum

    The Kettle-Drum 1973

    An artist's hand tries to draw a drummer with various tools and techniques, but he cannot do it for some reason. Finally he pinches his index finger and draws the drummer with his red blood. The drummer starts hitting the drum and the artist tries to erase it with no success. At the end the artist's hand remains white and motionless while the blood-drawn drummer keeps drumming.

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  • Poster for The Lighting Rod

    The Lighting Rod 1962

    A lightning rod is guarding the house roof, but when the lightnings strike, it appears the rod if afraid of them.

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  • Poster for The Chicken

    The Chicken 1982

    A bird struggles against a strong headwind, but things are not as they seem.

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  • Poster for A Crushed World

    A Crushed World 1986

    The experiences of a paper character crumpled, rolled up, distorted, thrown away, shaken about, ending up by an encounter which is both sweet and light.

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  • Poster for Arhipelago

    Arhipelago 1985

    Night. A man drowns in a rough sea. A lighthouse guard risks his life to save a drowned man. He gives him food, gives him his bed. When the lighthouse guard falls asleep, the rescued man steals his boat. As the next lighthouse approaches, he submerges the boat and starts shouting for help.

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  • Poster for The Apple

    The Apple 1963

    A short story about 4 brothers, a zmei, and an apple.

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  • Clever Village 1972

    The houses of the villagers are suddenly invaded by countless snakes. What to do with the plague? A good idea: to lead them away with other creatures that eat snakes. But the solution to a problem sometimes leads to even greater problems...

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  • Poster for Cuckoo

    Cuckoo 1983

    A madhouse. Everyone can do whatever they want. One crawls, and the other walks on the ceiling. The third one hangs from the lampshade. The fourth one pops out of the nightstand like a cuckoo clock . . . Orderlies catch one of the patients. Doctors consider it normal. He began to march in the impersonal formation of normal people.

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  • Poster for The Hole

    The Hole 1966

    A man falls in a hole on his walk, he sees another person walking on the same path and makes sure he's not the only one to get injured.

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  • Poster for Touch

    Touch 2018

    A new world is being formed. An imperfect, disorganized, chaotic world dominated by cruelty and intrigue. Separate parts of various animals and plants constantly fight with each other. The eternal cycle of life. And yet an Artist is needed to create the harmony of nature. Suddenly... the chaos turns into a complete picture.

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  • Poster for Two Beautiful Eyes

    Two Beautiful Eyes 2001

    This is a film about the boundless might of love and its traceable and invisible transformations, its lights and shades. The film deals with the never-ending human craving for beauty, perfection and spiritual elevation. In an art-style somewhere between Juan Miro and Aubrey Beardsley and Inspired by the poetry of P.K. Yavorov.

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  • Poster for Blue Eyed Moon

    Blue Eyed Moon 2001

    This is a story of a young girl in Ancient Greece. Among nymphs, satyrs and night shadows she is involved in a strange love story.

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  • Poster for The Beast Is Still Alive

    The Beast Is Still Alive 2016

    A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past and find answers and explanations for the catastrophic fall of communism.

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  • Mini 1972

    The animation consists of several smaller stories.

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  • Poster for Esperantsa

    Esperantsa 0

    The film is based on the conflict of destructive and creative forces in humanity.

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  • Poster for The Six Penguins

    The Six Penguins 1970

    Bulgarian stop motion animation that follows the adventures of six penguins.

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  • Poster for Grukh and Grushka

    Grukh and Grushka 1957

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  • Poster for Diurnal Music

    Diurnal Music 1972

    A child plays with flowers, butterflies and birds. Suddenly a huge man dressed in black appears. He begins to teach the child a lesson about plant and animal species. The teacher has many hands, each holding a pointer and killing all the beautiful species he talks about.

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  • Poster for Passion

    Passion 1972

    Two neighbors play backgammon with such passion that they don't notice anything happening around them.

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  • Poster for Heirs

    Heirs 1970

    The patriarch of a family dies, leaving his seven sons to fight for the inheritance.

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  • Poster for Wolf Suite

    Wolf Suite 1989

    In a village, wolves threaten the herds of sheep. Shepherds kill animals. The clerk comes and shows them the Red List of Threatened Species. It turns out that wolves are on this list. The villagers begin to take care of the only surviving pair of wolves. They even protect them from sheep that have gone berserk and become bloodthirsty.

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  • Poster for Horoscope

    Horoscope 1974

    The film consists of 12 miniatures, each based on one of the signs of the zodiac.

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  • Poster for Way of Movement

    Way of Movement 1990

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  • Poster for Forget-Me-Nots

    Forget-Me-Nots 1987

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  • Poster for Prometheus XX

    Prometheus XX 1970

    Bulgarian animation film

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  • Poster for The Wondrous Candy Rooster

    The Wondrous Candy Rooster 1971

    The musician plays the laterna. He gives Candy Rosster to the boy. The world around the boy is filled with flowers and magic. The boy circles around the Sun. He lets him lick his Candy Rooster. But in the end, the Candy Rooster runs out, only the match remains.

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  • Poster for The Woodcutter and the Poacher

    The Woodcutter and the Poacher 1988

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  • Poster for Drawing Lesson

    Drawing Lesson 1982

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  • Poster for The Frightful Dog

    The Frightful Dog 1991

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  • Poster for Anegdote

    Anegdote 1983

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  • Poster for About the Goldfish Once Again

    About the Goldfish Once Again 1992

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  • Poster for The Balance

    The Balance 1981

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  • Poster for The Roundest Sparrow

    The Roundest Sparrow 1986

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  • Poster for A Well

    A Well 1985

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  • Poster for A Present for Mamma

    A Present for Mamma 1985

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  • Poster for The Greediest Monster

    The Greediest Monster 1981

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  • Poster for The Unfortunate Hunter

    The Unfortunate Hunter 1969

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  • Poster for Story with No Words

    Story with No Words 1970

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  • Poster for Claustrophobia

    Claustrophobia 1982

    People are enclosed in transparent cubes. One of them manages to get out. He meets a lonely girl. They fly into space. It turns out that the two are locked in the cube again. The hero breaks out again. He meets many men and women, but returns to the girl he loves. This time, in their shared cube, they are separated by a partition.

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  • Poster for October

    October 1990

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  • Poster for Fear

    Fear 1973

    The hero is afraid of someone whose footsteps are swaying outside. The hero builds a huge tower around himself to protect himself. The footsteps roll outside again, but he laughs at them. When, however, he wants to get out, it turns out that this is not possible.

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  • Poster for Progress

    Progress 1984

    Replacing one death sentence with another.

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