Best Bulgarian comedy movies

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

  • Poster for Bullets of Justice

    Bullets of Justice 2020

    During World War III, the American government initiates a secret project codenamed ‘Army Bacon’ in order to create super soldiers by inbreeding humans with pigs. 25 years later the hybrid Muzzles have occupied the top of the food chain, eating and farming humanity. Ex-bounty hunter Rob Justice works for the last line of human resistance - a group of survivors hiding in a nuclear bunker deep underground - and his mission is to search and destroy Muzzle Central.

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  • Poster for Mission London

    Mission London 2010

    A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in love with a stripper and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - his simple task turns into a chaotic nightmare.

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  • Poster for Vasil

    Vasil 2022

    Vasil is a Bulgarian immigrant who lives on the street in Spain. Intelligent and charismatic, he has an amazing talent for chess and bridge, so much so, in fact, that despite being homeless, he manages to make a name for himself in an exclusive and prestigious club in the city.

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  • Poster for 6.9 on the Richter Scale

    6.9 on the Richter Scale 2016

    A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.

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  • Poster for Men of Deeds

    Men of Deeds 2022

    Ilie, a small-town police chief, wants to build a modest comfortable life for himself, but ends up making the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to be a part of something - to build an orchard, even a home. Although dubious things happen in the village, Ilie only sees what suits him. The moment he gets involved in the village marks the beginning of his collapse. In a vacuum of solutions, he tries to be what he has never been before: the justice seeker who arrests everyone guilty.

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  • Poster for Heights

    Heights 2017

    One of the most ambitious Bulgarian projects in recent years, Heights is an adaptation of Milen Ruskov's novel of the same name, published in 2011. The film explores the Bulgarian realities of the 1870s a few years before the war, that would liberate the country from the Ottoman occupation. Directed by Victor Bojinov and adapted by Neli Dimitrova, the story follows Gicho a young man in a revolutionary group led by Dimitar Obshti, a real-life revolutionary fighting against the Turks. After a successful train robbery Obshti entrust Gicho with a special mission: to deliver a letter to Vasil Levski, the country's most famous freedom fighter, now considered hero and dubbed The Apostle of Freedom.

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  • Poster for A Nameless Band

    A Nameless Band 1982

    Velko, Filip, Pavel and Gosho have different professions but are connected by the love they have for music. They rehearse all year to make it big on the sea resorts in the summer. The head of the cultural center where they play is willing to give them the musical equipment if they replace their singer Maria (Filip's girlfriend) with the attractive but untalented Reni. This is the first, but not the last compromise they have to make on the way to the dream.

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  • Poster for The Naked Truth About Zhiguli Band

    The Naked Truth About Zhiguli Band 2021

    The members of a music band that separated 30 years ago are forced to reunite.

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  • Poster for Wildlings

    Wildlings 2019

    Two women are on the run from the state police, with an abducted man on the back seat of their car.

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  • Poster for XIa

    XIa 2015

    XI "A" follows the story of Lina - a former dancer, who goes in for her dream job, namely to become a literature teacher.

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  • Poster for Dangerous Charm

    Dangerous Charm 1984

    He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating merchants with guilty consciences are his targets as well. This is the elusive protagonist of the movie. He constantly changes his name, stages his own death, and travels from town to town. His exploits are myriad and his life is an endless adventure. Yet, he remains an amiable swindler, an unrealized actor, whose only goal is make his life more interesting.

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  • Poster for Coziness

    Coziness 2019

    Serious family relationships in a comedic aspect - fate, money, neighbors, the future, how we live, at what pace, what we give, what we want, how we get away.

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  • Poster for Attraction

    Attraction 2018

    The young ravishing history teacher Lora Angelova is torn apart by the love she has for the school her father founded, and her former life as a competitive dancer. As the principal's position at the school becomes vacant, Lora needs to make the difficult decision between staying and fighting for the job, or running away from the intimidation she faces. With the help of the beloved students in her class, she discovers who she really is and easily makes the right decision.

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  • Poster for Footsteps in the Sand

    Footsteps in the Sand 2010

    At the airport, Slavi tells his life's story to a young customs officer. As children, Nelly promises Slavi to marry him. The two teenagers are passionately in love with each other but after some time Nelly falls in love with another guy. Slavi takes up drinking and gets into trouble with the Bulgarian militia (police) because of his family background. This is when he decides to defect to the West. After staying at a refugee camp in Austria and another desperate love, he sets out to the United States. There Slavi makes some new friends who help him buy a truck. He hits the roads of America, where he comes across an Indian who sells him an arrow. The vender tells him this amulet will bring his love back. Eventually, Slavi comes back to Bulgaria, where communism has collapsed. His beloved Nelly lives alone with her daughter. One day Slavi meets her again...

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  • Poster for Reunion

    Reunion 2019

    Three friends return from abroad and every one of them comes upon at something from his past. Finally they go to their hometown to save the house of one of their childhood friends from being demolished.

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  • heaveNBUL: The Movie 2019

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  • Poster for The Central Warmth

    The Central Warmth 1978

    A tenement house needs to have steam heating installed. The residents find the necessary workers to do it, sign the contract and pay them in advance. The workers show up and start their job, but disappear immediately. Panic-stricken, the residents set up to search for them, only to find the workers in jail. Totally desperate, their only chance is to come up with an ingenious plan how to bring the work to the end.

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  • Poster for Murda Boyz - Mahlenska Klasa

    Murda Boyz - Mahlenska Klasa 2023

    Story about friendship that goes through various stages and hurdles. Bobby, Marsel and Georgi are boys who follow their dream of becoming famous rappers. But the path they have to walk to the desired goal is strewn with many difficulties, disappointments, betrayals and love. The paths of the characters are separated in time. After the death of his father, who is an investigative police officer and is believed to have been killed by order of an influential mobster, Georgi decides to give up his child's dream of being a rapper and enters the Bulgarian police with intentions to find the responsible criminal for the death of his father. While Marcsel and Bobby continue their pursuit of becoming rappers, they enter the underworld and start working for Ljubo Kokala, who gets them into very serious trouble.

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  • Poster for Shelter

    Shelter 2011

    Teenage Bulgarian boy Radostin collides with his parents by disappearing for two days and then bringing home his two new friends - devoted punks. Their encounters in a small flat are challenging, serious and at the same time funny.

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  • Poster for The Past-Master boss

    The Past-Master boss 1983

    Rangel Lelin is a bash master who buys a high school diploma. People to whom he had done dubious services employed him as a supervisor at a construction site. His first job is to put a rug behind his back and hire a secretary...

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  • Poster for Bulgarian is Gallant

    Bulgarian is Gallant 1915

    Bulgaran is a sophisticated and sociable man. While strolling through the city streets, he encounters a young woman and engages in playful banter with her. Unbeknownst to him, she has a plan to teach him a lesson.

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  • Poster for One Elevator Apart

    One Elevator Apart 2021

    Two young policemen-in-training are hired by their landlord to find out who stole her winning lottery ticket.

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  • Poster for Vacation with Kids

    Vacation with Kids 1972

    A funny adventures of a group of children, spending their holidays at the seaside.

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  • Poster for The Hedgehogs' War

    The Hedgehogs' War 1979

    "The Hedgehogs" are a group of youngsters who are trying to gain control of the empty space between the blocks of flats, which they want to convert into a basketball court. The resistance of the neighbors is soon overcome and the court is laid down. Training courses in basketball for kids are set up. The ambitious coach is selecting only those of the boys who are able to carry out his most absurd orders. Two of them happen to be late, so he immediately fires them from the team. Thus the 'hedgehogs' war' against the indifference of the adult breaks out.

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  • Poster for Farsighted for Two Diopters

    Farsighted for Two Diopters 1976

    Dimo Manchev (Partsalev), a 50-year-old head of family, has a conservative notion of upbringing and morality. Being familiar with his disposition, the Manchev's daughter Lili (Bratanova) married his sweetheart Plamen (Gadzhokov) in secret. The young couple cast about how to announce the marriage all the more that they are both still students studying in university. The hesitation grows when the father shows strictness even though they present their relation as some university friendship.

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  • Poster for Yellow Oleander

    Yellow Oleander 2022

    Scandalous Italian ex-premier arrives in Bulgaria to support EU parliament application of a Bulgarian politic. The host and his much younger wife invite the ex-premier to a remote villa. A Dead body, naughty adventures and many compromising events happen before the true greedy, traitorous and selfish nature of the host shine bright among the awkward circumstances.

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  • Poster for Rapid Response Corps 2: Nuclear Threat

    Rapid Response Corps 2: Nuclear Threat 2014

    Hilarious comedy about a bunch of crazy private detectives who are trying to save the world from a nuclear disaster! Everything would be easier if there were not so many pretty Bulgarian girls who destract some of the agents, but sometimes help with fighting back. This is a second instalment of the Rapid Response Corps with the same characters from the first movie.

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  • Poster for King for a Day

    King for a Day 1983

    This film is a comedy about a poor man named Purko. Purko always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's.

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  • Poster for Something Out of Nothing

    Something Out of Nothing 1979

    A famous metropolitan journalist decides to pay a surprise visit to his classmate Pancho in the countryside. Pancho has gone to town and his wife has to greet the guest. Under the curious eyes of the neighbors, the two are waiting for him to come back home. The awkwardness between them intensifies. How will they sleep under one roof? What will people say?

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  • Poster for Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films

    Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films 2011

    An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast and Furious" and "The Da Vinci Code".

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  • Poster for The Curie Case

    The Curie Case 2018

    Tony is a studious kid who loves science and dreams of becoming a great scientist one day. His bedroom looks like a laboratory and he has deliberately named his lab mouse after Marie Curie, who developed the theory of radioactivity. Although he is just eight years old, Tony will participate in the National Science Fair with his own experiment. His neighbor Raya, who is also eight, is a student at the School of Dance and is rather naughty and mischievous. She often disturbs Tony and interrupts his concentration and his lab experiments, and she is a friend of Stefan, a bully who is several years older than her. Raya wants to help Stefan pass his math test, but Tony refuses to cooperate, and as a result of that Marie Curie is kidnapped. To get her back, Tony has to face new challenges. The annual ballet production at the school is ruined and fails gloriously, however, a new friendship blossoms.

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  • Deal or No Deal 2020

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  • Poster for Yatagan

    Yatagan 2022

    A police inspector frames an innocent boy as terrorist, but is later forced to conspire with his victim as both create an intricate web of lies to steal money from the incompetent government bodies.

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  • Poster for Red Light

    Red Light 2016

    In a small provincial town, the only traffic light is stuck on red. An intercity bus driver refuses to continue until the light turns green. This provokes a series of misunderstandings with the nervous passengers and the local law enforcement, in a world where following the rules is a misunderstanding in itself.

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  • Poster for The Past-Master on a trip

    The Past-Master on a trip 1980

    The Bash Master went on an organized trip to Hungary. In Budapest, he finds a way to get out of the group by faking an injury in order to make money from a private construction project. He meets his brother, who is the supervisor of the site, and asks him to employ him for the time he is there, but is flatly refused. He then manages to contact two of the builders and arranges for the theft of rebar...

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  • Poster for Uncle Claus

    Uncle Claus 2021

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  • Poster for Ladies' Choice

    Ladies' Choice 1980

    A couple of young ladies decide to obtain a driving license. The film is a true comedy of relations, caused between the driving-teacher and the beginner-drivers.

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  • Poster for Living Legends

    Living Legends 2014

    Group of friends meet again, 13 years after their prom because of a problem of one of them, and face the opportunity to experience the things in life they have always put aside in life so far.

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  • Poster for Rapid Response Corps

    Rapid Response Corps 2012

    A team of three broke but energetic young men of enterprise, early thirties, have set-up a partnership-a private company-with the purpose of finding their way to the world of prosperity. The team has its Boss, Vasko; its driver (and, incidentally, its ladies' man) Gecata; and its IT expert, Boreto. The company's only assets are a minivan and the boys' ingenuity and brains. But you can still rely on them for anything! They will save your hapless cat from the dangerous heights of a tree or investigate a convoluted espionage affair - all for a small fee, of course

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  • Poster for Getting Fat in a Healthy Way

    Getting Fat in a Healthy Way 2015

    Bulgaria-based director Kevork Aslanyan’s European Short Film Festival-winning sci-fi short sees a man trying to overcome an obstacle of gravitas for love. In a dystopian post-communist world, Constantine and his father Atanas share a small flat in a run-down apartment block. A tragic accident has disturbed gravity on Earth beyond repair, so everyone weighing less than 120 kilos flies up into space. With only 60kg body weight, Constantine cannot go outside, nor does he want to. Stuck in the flat, at the mercy of the electrical mood swings of a household gravitational normalizer, Constantine leads an almost normal life. He is content spending the days looking at the world through his window. Until the beautifully plump stewardess moving in next door changes everything.

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  • Poster for Bai Ivan: The Movie

    Bai Ivan: The Movie 2021

    The movie is a continuation of the mini-series "The World of Vankata". Bai Ivan gets the chance to participate in a TV show and begins his path to fame. He will go through many adventures in his attempt to win the grand prize.

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  • Poster for The Black Sea

    The Black Sea 2024

    Khalid, a charismatic big dreamer from Brooklyn, with no follow-thru gets stuck in a small town on the Black Sea after chasing an opportunity for money that goes wrong. Being the only black guy in the town, he quickly becomes the center of the town’s attention. His New York City street bop is all he has to survive. In his pursuit to get home he finds connection in a way he never expected with a local woman. Together they make their small dreams big.

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  • Poster for Love is Madness

    Love is Madness 1917

    A university student and a girl are in love. The girl’s aunt opposes their love. She has decided to marry her off to a rich suitor. The student decides to cunningly discredit the suitor of her choice before the aunt.

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  • Poster for The Foreigner

    The Foreigner 2012

    A Frenchman falls in love with a hot temper Bulgarian village girl. Following the call of his heart he starts looking for the village where she lives without knowing the character and the language of the people living there.

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  • Poster for Indian Summer

    Indian Summer 1973

    The day that the financial clerk Metodi Rashkov is getting retired comes. He is a shy and quiet man and he accepts all tasks given to him by his son and daughter in law without argument. With time, he becomes a housekeeper; he shops, cooks and looks after his grandson. In order to save his face in front of his friends he lies to them and falls in a number of uncomfortable situations. The "Expolsion" becomes imminent. The reason is insignificant but with great consequences. Rashkov leaves his home. Soon the freedom which he wanted becomes boring for him. The abandoned family begins to miss the grandfather. At the end everyone sees their mistakes and is ready to fix them. The birth of a second grandson is the event which brings everyone under the same roof again.

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  • Poster for The Past-Master

    The Past-Master 1973

    A research worker Robespier Galabov (Yakovlev) lives with his family in a small communal flat with shared kitchen and dreams about a self-contained home. Galabov meet Rangel Lelin (Gospodinov), the well-known amidst the localities as the past-master, when he realized that the new municipal apartment they apply for won't be ready in the next decade. The Past-Master promises to build the private house in a month. After starting the construction, Rangel Lelin constantly blackmail Galabov for more money through treat of "putting the hat". Finally the house was built but the inauguration become gloomy. It turns out that the chimney of the fireplace doesn't work properly. After days of luckless attempts to solve the problem the past-master's brother come into sight. Knowing the Lelin's tricks he find a hat built in the chimney.

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  • Poster for Whale

    Whale 1970

    A fishing boat comes back to the port. Fishermen are crestfallen, as they have caught only one very little fish. To save face, they fib they have 300 kilo of mackerel on board the boat. In their will to report a success, the port administration decides to pad out the weight. So, the very little fish is grossly exaggerated into tons of belted bonito, then into dolphin and ultimately, into a whale. Which results in celebrations, honors and awards... There, naturally, is no any whale. Instead of brilliant display of an unprecedented success, the white collars make a brilliant display of their unparalleled foolishness.

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  • Poster for Holiday Makers

    Holiday Makers 2016

    The group of tourists go to the black see in Bulgaria. Really funny stuff happens all the time which is the ordinary state of the people's behavior in this local place. they get stranded in an Island near the see and start to get paranoid, also in the same time the mayor is drinking and is not sending a rescue party . they think that they will end up dead in the island, but what happens next? - Really funny things all the time.

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  • Poster for The Color of the Chameleon

    The Color of the Chameleon 2013

    In an authoritarian police state, a charismatic schemer is fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns against his former masters.

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  • Poster for The Past-Master went to the sea

    The Past-Master went to the sea 1982

    Bash maystorat went to sea with his wife and son. The road passes by vegetable garden with watermelons and they filled the trunk of stolen fruit which subsequently discarded as police goes after them. A little later, by coincidence, they are towed by a truck carrying watermelons to Burgas. Bebov fix crumpled front, but does not change the burned furniture and bash maystorat is forced to tour around the country until he found a new one. In a series of cunning finally outwit both remain without what we have agreed.

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  • Poster for Last Call

    Last Call 2020

    A girl must be saved from comitting suicide through the power of love. And all that cannot happen without a series of comic situations.

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  • Poster for Master of All Trades

    Master of All Trades 1962

    A dentistry student, graduating with honor, does not get the desired job and has to start working as a MASTER OF ALL TRADES in a construction company. He has to paint walls, clean chimneys, and fix water conduits. He is not able to accomplish any of these tasks and gets into funny situations all the time. Moreover, he and his roommate, a good friend of his, quarrel over a girl. But this situation is a misunderstanding as well - the friends love different girls. A happy end is in sight.

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  • Poster for Operation Shmenti Capelli

    Operation Shmenti Capelli 2011

    The title is based on the idiomatic expression "shmenti capelli" characterizing actions of people who like to shuffle and bamboozle others with superficial commitments. Karamfilov choose it as a metaphor for people with huge economic and political power. The funny comedy incorporates a tragic story in which Karamfilov plays two roles: the Big Guy and the Little Guy. Big is tied to the Mafia and the Secret services. Little is an unemployed teacher, squeezed and crushed by the system, which stops his heating and electricity, has his home emptied by a bailiff, and uses him as a tool in a game.

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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 The Double

    The Double 1980

    Denev is a specialist in his area. and has no time to write his dissertation. His cousin Ivan offers his help to switch places wich leeds to catostrophe.

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  • Poster for The Tragic Burlesque

    The Tragic Burlesque 1995

    In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily.

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  • Poster for Favourite 13

    Favourite 13 1958

    The main heroes are twin brothers. The first is responsible young fellow and excellent footballer. The second one is an undependable gambler. The police are after him. A pretty girl stands in between them. She has profoundly fallen for the footballer. By coincidence, the twins change places, which result in a formidable mess and funny situations. Ultimately, all the misunderstandings are settled and the couple re-joins.

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  • Poster for Class ‘90

    Class ‘90 2025

    Schoolmates who graduated in 1989 in Bulgaria gather at a small hotel in the Rhodope mountain to celebrate their 30th high school anniversary. What is supposed to be a festive event turns into painful experience as old secrets and trauma still haunt them. The sum of their life experiences, their unfulfilled dreams and current goals reflect the upheavals of the post-communist society during the 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall.

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  • Poster for Villa Zone

    Villa Zone 1975

    A common Bulgarian family spends a warm afternoon in the fall in a country house. The preparations for a dinner party are in full swing. The formal reason is that the son enlists in the Army and the real reason is to arrange a match between him and the daughter of the boss. All the schemes are frustrated as it turns out that the boy has already married another girl. Both the hosts and the guests lose control, unleashing a consecution of tragic or comic situations.

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  • Poster for I'm with Me

    I'm with Me 2023

    Days before Valentine's day and their wedding, Cindy Hunter, editor-in-chief of a tabloid and Damon Tuckland, a successful therapist encounter a strange plant that magically puts Cindy's mind in Damon's body and vice versa. Now the couple really finds out how the other half lives. In a series of comic mishaps at work, with relatives and at home, Cindy and Damon must become better people and figure out a way to reverse the "awkward" situation before their wedding or face a lifetime as each other. It's the ultimate body-swapping comedy with a heart that gives a brand-new meaning to the term "The Opposite Sex".

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  • Poster for For Better or Worse

    For Better or Worse 2023

    Ben and Jessa are getting divorced after twenty years and decided to sell their first house, but they found it in terrible shape after all these years and now they must work together to repair it and put it on the market.

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  • Poster for The Living Man

    The Living Man 2021

    A melancholic comedy dealing with the question „What is freedom?" and focusing on a man who, after a series of big disappointments, is now trying to regain his own.

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  • Poster for Exams at Any Odd Time

    Exams at Any Odd Time 1974

    Two novels united by common characters and a never-settled problem: the clash between sincerity of children and the heartless pragmatism and ambitions of grown-ups.

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  • Poster for Three Reservists

    Three Reservists 1971

    In 1945, on the battlefields in Hungary, three Bulgarian soldiers from the reserve have to fight for the liberation of the country. They are totally unprepared for the war and have no desire to take part in the battles. The three reservists are the sad sight and initially their commander wants to send them back to Bulgaria. But their attitude is changed after the witnessed tragedies. Without knowing it, they all turn into heroes.

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  • Poster for XIIa

    XIIa 2017

    The movie XIIa is the sequel of the super successful XIa. In XIIa the journey continues. After two years break, Lina is back to school to teach a new class - a new class, new problems. At home, the situation is also not better. Lina is separated with her cheating husband and her dominating mother is constantly bullying her, Lina's son is maltreated by classmates - at times the tension reaches extreme limits and Lina is about to collapse. Fortunately, she finds support in the sports teacher, a former boxer. The school director is also on her side, so are some of the students. Though the problems with the new class, especially with the beautiful and difficult Megan and between Lina and one of her colleague teachers deepen more and more. The prom is getting closer, the situation is about to escalate

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  • Poster for Reunion 2

    Reunion 2 2022

    "Reunion 2" continues the story of four friends who came from different parts of the world to meet again at their hometown of Plovdiv, 20 years after they left. This time they unite to help a fifth friend who is trying to save one of the last wild beaches at the southwest of the Black Sea from construction. As one of them is an actor, they decide to make a movie about their story and to buy out the beach with the profit. This leads to bunch of comedic and dramatic situations where their friendship and their relationships with their significant others are put on the line.

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