A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar social change while committed local communists struggle to organize workers and defend the emerging order. The narrative follows several archetypal figures—steadfast party activists, wary peasants, and obstructive reactionaries—whose clashes illustrate the claimed inevitability of working-class victory under communist leadership.

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage s...

It's July 1895 and the New York elite have decamped to Newport, Rhode Island for a summer of balls, ...

Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urg...
An NYU student visits a Mennonite friend in Lancaster, Pennsylvania after a fellow Mennonite is kill...

An illegal immigrant from Albania infiltrates the lives of a group of Londoners with devastating con...

Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died ...

Seven years ago, Max’s parents died in a car accident. Since then, the young man, now 35, has been t...

Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at whic...

College sweethearts Lu Feng and Xiao Chen are torn apart by family and prejudice. Years later, they ...

Five years apart, they reunite as lovers, but when family-demands force Xiao Chen to marry, Lu Feng ...

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their...
Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, an elderly man unburdens hims...

King's swordsman Captain Buridan, hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris to find it in a gr...

Bernard is in love with a water spider. He wants to replace his wife Catherine with the spider becau...

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel ...

Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold...

A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of...