Gene Deitch Movies

Medieval times. A juggler has little success making a living; he puts on a hair shirt and becomes an ascetic, but attracts only other ascetics....

In a 19th century fishing harbor, the captain of the Komquot is obsessed with catching the great white whale Dicky Moe. His obsession unnerves his...

A young man learns his new antique violin has the power to change the form of things around it.

John's next-door neighbor tries to help him become more assertive against his wife Jane and tell her that he won't do any more housework.

What do you do when your best toy disappears and no one will help you find it? Jules Feiffer's spunky little detective learns that if you keep on...

Three archaeologists learn about the impact television, especially the CBS network, had on postwar America.

Popeye is jailed for committing a bank robbery which he insists he didn't commit. He must prove he didn't do it. In a seemingly unrelated subplot,...

Meet a worm not that different from you or me, except that his head looks a lot like his tail! A hysterical journal about the daily doings and the...

Vít Dolejší, popularly known as Vitoušek, monitors the groundwater in the underground of the National Theatre, and when...

A deliciously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.

An adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale

A young Mexican boy, son of the greatest fireworks maker in all of Mexico, saves the day when his father's fireworks fail to go off as planned at the...

A four-year-old boy is drafted into the army.

The eleven musicians from the orchestra introduce themselves and talk about their instruments.

The gregarious Flebus, whom everyone likes, grows desperate when he meets the one person who can't stand him.

The three original beloved Bunny Planet stories are now available in a single-volume gift edition with magnetic closure and ribbon place marker....

A rare look into the private world of Maurice Sendak, who describes the significant events of his own life and their impact on his work.

A suspicious pear-thieving beast becomes fast friends with a lonely man who proudly presents him to the prestigious Academy of Sciences.

In a series of vignettes, we see how to "win" a barroom fight by such tactics as going limp, garlic breath, screaming, enlisting the help of a large,...