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!
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.
90Father 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.
85Lilly 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
80Treasure 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.
58Balgar: 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.
60Oceania 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.
66Ballad 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.
70Bango 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.
70Trace 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.
70Balgar: 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.
60Zoetrope 2017
Two robots journey through a labyrinth and encounter curious characters and extraordinary objects as they reflect on their own existence.
60February 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.
60Mishou 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.
52To 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.
55Shock 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.
55The 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.
50Forest Republic 1953
50Demoni 2012
Animated short from Theodore Ushev
50Beach 1985
A peaceful day at the beach for the frogs is thwarted by an invasion of birds.
45A 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...
40The 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.
40The Lighting Rod 1962
A lightning rod is guarding the house roof, but when the lightnings strike, it appears the rod if afraid of them.
40The Chicken 1982
A bird struggles against a strong headwind, but things are not as they seem.
36A 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.
30The Apple 1963
A short story about 4 brothers, a zmei, and an apple.
30Arhipelago 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.
30The 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.
20Two 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.
20Blue 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.
20Wolf 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.
10Diurnal 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.
10The 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.
10Heirs 1970
The patriarch of a family dies, leaving his seven sons to fight for the inheritance.
10Duo 1961
10Fear 1973
10Wolf Story 1986
10Jealousy 1963
10At the Cinema 1972
10The Wondrous Candy Rooster 1971
10Shapes and Forms 1984
10Self-Sacrifice 1981
10Accident 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.
10Everything 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.
10Aquarium 1973
An animated short film.
10De Facto 1973
A building collapses and the authorities have to find the causer.
10Scissors and a Boy 1965
Scissors create a world
10Horoscope 1974
The film consists of 12 miniatures, each based on one of the signs of the zodiac.
10Banished 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
10Friends From Far Away 1985
10Clever 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...
10October 1990
10March 1985
10The Devil in the Church 1969
A young modern woman goes to church and all hell breaks loose.
10Grukh and Grushka 1957
10Way of Movement 1990
10The Skipping Rope 1985
10About the Goldfish Once Again 1992
10Forget-Me-Nots 1987
10Little 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.
10Prometheus 1959
Several short stories, showing what would happen if Prometheus tried to bring the gift of fire to the mankind in 20th century?
10Drawing Lesson 1982
10Prometheus XX 1970
Bulgarian animation film
10Chain Reaction 1971
Bulgarian animation film
10The Woodcutter and the Poacher 1988
10In the Land of Cannibals 1958
Bulgarian animation
10Anegdote 1983
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