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 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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  • 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 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 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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  • 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Forest Republic

    Forest Republic 1953

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  • Poster for Demoni

    Demoni 2012

    Animated short from Theodore Ushev

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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 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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  • 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 The Apple

    The Apple 1963

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

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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 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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  • 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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  • 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 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 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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  • 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 Duo

    Duo 1961

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  • Poster for Fear

    Fear 1973

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  • Poster for Wolf Story

    Wolf Story 1986

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  • Poster for Jealousy

    Jealousy 1963

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  • Poster for At the Cinema

    At the Cinema 1972

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  • Poster for The Wondrous Candy Rooster

    The Wondrous Candy Rooster 1971

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  • Poster for Shapes and Forms

    Shapes and Forms 1984

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  • Poster for Self-Sacrifice

    Self-Sacrifice 1981

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  • Poster for Accident in a Kindergarten

    Accident in a Kindergarten 1956

    A short Bulgarian cartoon for the youngest children, which teaches that they should always tell the truth so that good kind people will eventually grow out of them.

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  • Poster for Everything For the Stork

    Everything For the Stork 1982

    A flock of storks was flying south, but one bird lagged behind and fell to the meadow without strength. A little girl found the stork and called the adults for help. There were rallies and actions to save the bird. Only a little girl thought to give water and fish to the tired stork, after which it flew away.

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  • Poster for Aquarium

    Aquarium 1973

    An animated short film.

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  • De Facto 1973

    A building collapses and the authorities have to find the causer.

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  • Poster for Scissors and a Boy

    Scissors and a Boy 1965

    Scissors create a world

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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 Banished from Eden

    Banished from Eden 1967

    In a concert, one of the musicians suddenly rushed to the sky. There he waits at St. Peter's Gate to be received. Inside, pathetic music is played. A musician plays jazz. The angels begin to tremble in rhythm

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  • Poster for Friends From Far Away

    Friends From Far Away 1985

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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 October

    October 1990

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  • March 1985

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  • The Devil in the Church 1969

    A young modern woman goes to church and all hell breaks loose.

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  • Poster for Grukh and Grushka

    Grukh and Grushka 1957

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  • Poster for Way of Movement

    Way of Movement 1990

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  • The Skipping Rope 1985

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  • Poster for About the Goldfish Once Again

    About the Goldfish Once Again 1992

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  • Poster for Forget-Me-Nots

    Forget-Me-Nots 1987

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  • Little Anna 1958

    It is only the child who is able to view the world with a pure heart and to laugh at it lovingly and to justify it through laughter. Anna mocks stupidity, injustice, ugliness in human behavior. At times, she also exposes herself to ridicule in her impulse to gain knowledge of the world. She makes us laugh but she also evokes love.

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  • Prometheus 1959

    Several short stories, showing what would happen if Prometheus tried to bring the gift of fire to the mankind in 20th century?

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  • Poster for Drawing Lesson

    Drawing Lesson 1982

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  • Poster for Prometheus XX

    Prometheus XX 1970

    Bulgarian animation film

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  • Chain Reaction 1971

    Bulgarian animation film

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  • Poster for The Woodcutter and the Poacher

    The Woodcutter and the Poacher 1988

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  • In the Land of Cannibals 1958

    Bulgarian animation

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  • Poster for Anegdote

    Anegdote 1983

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