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- A young woman returns to her native mountain village, searching for answers about her troubled childhood, but as she tries to uncover the truth, ancient superstitions lead the villagers to accuse her of witchcraft and murder.
- A solitary police operative skilfully moves on the edge of the law in the wild atmosphere of the East Slovak underworld in the early 90s.
- The story follows the ambitions of two young individuals hungry for quick wealth. However, their path takes a treacherous turn as they venture into the world of illegal fentanyl production -a dangerous drug with far-reaching consequences.
- A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
- Occupied by family problems, a 13 year old Vojto takes every responsibility around the house. One day while on a train to school, he sees this girl, Kajka, and falls madly in love with her. Despite his busy life, he decides to win her heart by any means possible.
- Grumpy handyman Laco loses everything to a group of mobsters. Now wheelchair-bound and with his life spiraling, it's his new friend Gabo, a local Roma who helps Laco see things with a new perspective. Revenge is sweet.
- Mato, a small-town boy, prefers fishing with friend Robo over soccer his father wants. He develops romantic feelings for classmate Terka and dreams of running away from family troubles and his critical surroundings.
- A small border town in the south of Slovakia is surprised by the sudden arrival of respected builder Mr. Hampl and his young wife Nada. She catches the eye of an equally young local teacher, Daniel, who is still recovering from his military experience in The Second World War. At first, Nada tries to resist Daniel's charm but her decision is complicated by the scent of flowering agave in the hot summer air. When the agave after 30 years of sleep finally blooms, Nada's primary decision not to give in is permanently void... A simple love story on the surface opens into to a deep, psychological study set in the hot summer of 1947. The Second World War has just ended and the Communist coup is waiting in the wings to wipe nearly a whole generation of Slovak intelligentsia from the history.
- The arrival of Maria Drazdechova, associated with the Communist party, to a school in Bratislava in 1983 worries parents, students, and colleagues.
- Somewhere under the mountains, the country is dominated by high-ranking criminals, people linked to politics, the mafia, but also to the police, the courts, and the big business. The addicted teenager disappears from the re-socialization center, but no one is missing. She wants to talk about forced sex and drugs to the police, but they send her away. He seeks a journalist who unravels the incredible squid of crime, mafia, blackmail. A hopeful politician will become chairman and rule the whole country, because whoever has power has the police and government shops under his control. Little little man becomes a big blackmailer who treats people like chess pieces. But can the truth survive among people who care about money and power? Or does the God of money not shy or murder?
- In the 1990s post-communist Slovakia, former woods worker Miki takes his chances to start doing business at a local level and climb up the ladder to become the biggest mafia boss in the country.
- Visiting Slovakian Racha to get antiquated with Slovakian wine-making techniques, Rachvelian from Georgia, Zauri, falls in love with Slovak Darina. Consequentially, when Darina visits Georgia, Zauri does his best to make her also love him.
- A disillusioned 30-something teacher falls out with his father and moves to a derelict house in their family garden. He is then visited by a stunningly beautiful neighbour, famous philosophers, his ex-lover and.
- It's spring 1939. The bishop in Banska Bystrica finds out that in the village of Piargy, that was buried by an avalanche a few days ago, the Antichrist was born. The bishop calls on priest Balaz and asks him to investigate the statements of Johanka, the only survivor of the catastrophe. Balaz wants to know what exactly happened in Piargy.
- The true story of Jewish boy, and talented soccer player, Martin, who has to make risky lifetime decisions in order to survive in WWII when he sees his family is taken to Poland one by one.
- A mother goes away, leaving her husband and their two children in limbo. She is driven by a force she cannot ignore: freedom.
- Tony is wasting away at home. His controlling parents want to protect him mostly because, once he takes off his mask and gloves, he glows. But his new friend, Shelly, doesn't seem to mind it at all, as their house is shrouded in darkness.
- The Feather Fairy lives in the sky and gives snow to the people. She lives with a boy called Jakob, who one day ventures into the human world and falls for a peasant girl.
- Milan (40) has three children and does construction work in Germany in order to provide for his family in Slovakia. While visiting his home over Christmas he discovers that his eldest son Adam is a member of a para-military youth group. The boy is involved in bullying and the death of a class-mate. The father has to decide what to do. In this process, along with his wife, he comes to discover the real truth about their son, their family, themselves and the community around them.
- Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Secret agent Paul Grumbach seems to live in paradise, all his dollars make up for a good living. Then Czechoslovakian secret service begins to show acute interest in him. Suddenly he is in the middle of an intrigue and confronted with a beautiful woman, who turns out to be a Czech secret agent. As if things are not complicated enough both fall in love with each other. Paul is on his own now. Will he be smart enough to survive this deadly game?
- A forensic psychologist solves a mysterious case and a marital crisis at the same time. Can he resist the dark forces that tempt him to uncover the secrets of the case, or will he fall victim to them?
- Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.
- Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martinek, the films power lies in its unusual portraits of people whose raw visual beauty radiates from their very souls. Some, like the village cosmos aficionado or the disabled old man who climbs stairs on his knees, are hard to forget.
- Oldrich "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.