خلاصه داستان : در چکسلواکی کمونیستی پس از جنگ جهانی دوم، چندین شخصیت که بورژوا محسوب می‌شوند برای بازپروری به کار در انبار زباله محکوم می‌شوند. در میان آنها مرد جوانی است که برای یک محکوم زن کاج می کند.

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.

خلاصه داستان : یادآوری خاطرات کودکی بوهومیل هرابال در شهر استانبوی واقع در نیمبورک ، تحت سلطه آبجوسازی محلی.

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.

خلاصه داستان : یک میلیونر شرور به نام آرتیگاس قصد دارد از یک وسیله انفجاری فوق العاده برای تسخیر جهان از مقر خود در داخل یک آتشفشان عظیم استفاده کند...

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.