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!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
70Oceania 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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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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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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Forest Republic 1953
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beach 1985
A peaceful day at the beach for the frogs is thwarted by an invasion of birds.
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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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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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The Chicken 1982
A bird struggles against a strong headwind, but things are not as they seem.
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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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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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The Apple 1963
A short story about 4 brothers, a zmei, and an apple.
30Clever 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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
10Mini 1972
The animation consists of several smaller stories.
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Esperantsa 0
The film is based on the conflict of destructive and creative forces in humanity.
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The Six Penguins 1970
Bulgarian stop motion animation that follows the adventures of six penguins.
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Grukh and Grushka 1957
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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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Passion 1972
Two neighbors play backgammon with such passion that they don't notice anything happening around them.
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Heirs 1970
The patriarch of a family dies, leaving his seven sons to fight for the inheritance.
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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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Horoscope 1974
The film consists of 12 miniatures, each based on one of the signs of the zodiac.
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Way of Movement 1990
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Forget-Me-Nots 1987
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Prometheus XX 1970
Bulgarian animation film
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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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The Woodcutter and the Poacher 1988
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Drawing Lesson 1982
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The Frightful Dog 1991
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Anegdote 1983
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About the Goldfish Once Again 1992
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The Balance 1981
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The Roundest Sparrow 1986
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A Well 1985
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A Present for Mamma 1985
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The Greediest Monster 1981
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The Unfortunate Hunter 1969
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Story with No Words 1970
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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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October 1990
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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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Progress 1984
Replacing one death sentence with another.
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