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Deaf Crocodile

Deaf Crocodile

Deaf Crocodile's mission is restoring and releasing independent, lost/unseen and world cinema with a focus on animation, LGBT+ films, genre cinema, and the work of underrepresented filmmakers.

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  • Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

    Directed by Oldřich Lipský • Drama • With Rudolf Hrušínský , Olga Schoberová, Miloš Kopecký • 1978 • 102 minutes

    Czech director Oldřich Lipský's beloved cult hit about a handsome but bumbling detective and a man-eating plant is an irresistible slapstick combination of 19th century James Bond gad...

  • The Assassin Of The Tsar - English Version

    Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov • Drama • With Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovsky • 1991 • 105 minutes

    THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious psychological drama / thriller in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. Ma...

  • The Assassin Of The Tsar - Russian Version

    Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov • Drama • With Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovsky • 1991 • 103 minutes

    THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious psychological drama / thriller in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. Ma...

  • Bubble Bath

    Directed by György Kovásznai • Animation • With Vera Venzcel, Kornél Gelley • 1979 • 80 minutes

    A truly unique and surreal animated musical comedy from Hungary by György Kovásznai about a high-strung window decorator about to be married who bursts into the apartment of his fiancée's best friend ...

  • Delta Space Mission

    Directed by Călin Cazan, Mircea Toia • Animation • With Mirela Gorea, Marcel Iures, Dan Condurache • 1984 • 71 minutes

    In the year 3084, a Modigliani-esque alien journalist with blue-green skin, Alma, boards a state-of-the-art spacecraft named Delta - whose highly advanced computer brain develop...

  • Kin-dza-dza!

    Directed by Georgiy Daneliya • Drama • With Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze • 1986 • 133 minutes

    Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky circa Solaris directing Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and you'll come close to the existential weirdness of this loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy. Two...

  • Ilya Muromets

    Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko • Drama • With Boris Andreyev, Shukur Burkhanov, Ninel Myshkova • 1956 • 92 minutes

    Legendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s sweeping, visual F/X-filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights,...

  • Ruslan and Ludmila

    Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko • Drama • With Valeri Kozinets, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov • 1972 • 145 minutes

    The final film from Russian fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko (ILYA MUROMETS, SAMPO), RUSLAN AND LUDMILA was a glorious and magical summation of his career. Based on an epic fairy...

  • Sampo

    Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko • Drama • With Anna Orochko, Urho Somersalmi, Andris Osins • 1959 • 91 minutes

    Based on the Finnish national epic "Kalevala," director Aleksandr Ptushko's ravishing, mystical fantasy tells the story of a sinister witch Louhi (Anna Orochko) who covets the Sampo, a ma...

  • The Savage Hunt Of King Stakh

    Directed by Valeri Rubinchik • Drama • With Elena Dimitrova, Boris Plotnikov • 1980 • 127 minutes

    Part folk horror, part supernatural mystery, the long-unseen THE SAVAGE HUNT OF KING STAKH is a melancholy, chilling mixture of Terry Gilliam, Italian Gothic Horror, 1960s Hammer Films and THE WICKE...

  • Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat In Space

    Directed by t.o.L • Animation • With Takeshi Katô, Hisayo Mochizuki • 2002 • 92 minutes

    Arguably the only Japanese anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno fever dream that follows the adorable wide-eyed kitty Tamala on her home world of...

  • Time Of Roses

    Directed by Risto Jarva • Drama • With Arto Tuominen, Ritva Vepsä • 1969 • 105 minutes

    Finnish director Risto Jarva's futuristic, Pop Art-influenced sci-fi mystery follows a historian of late 20th century culture who becomes fascinated with the enigmatic death of a free-spirited erotic model dec...

  • The Tune (Bill Plympton)

    Directed by Bill Plympton • Animation • With Daniel Neiden, Maureen McElheron • 1992 • 71 minutes

    Legendary animator Bill Plympton's first feature, a musical comedy set in the surreal, delightful town of Flooby Nooby. A songwriter in love with his demanding boss's secretary enters an alternate, ...

  • Visitors From the Arkana Galaxy

    Directed by Dusan Vukotic • Documentary • With Lucie Zulová, Ksenia Prohaska, Zarko Potocnjak • 1981 • 89 minutes

    A truly gonzo 1980s Croatian sci-fi / fantasy / comedy about a struggling writer, Robert (Zarko Potocnjak), who dreams up a story of gold-skinned alien androids named Andra, Targo an...

  • World War III

    Directed by Houman Seyedi • Drama • With Mohsen Tanabandeh, Mahsa Hejazi • 2022 • 107 minutes

    Winner of the Orizzonti Awards for Best Film and Actor at the Venice Film Festival 2022, director Houman Seyedi's mysterious thriller/drama focuses on an anonymous day laborer (Mohsen Tanabandeh) who is...

  • Zerograd

    Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov • Drama • With Vladimir Menshov, Leonid Filatov • 1988 • 102 minutes

    Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov's surreal satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in...