When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...
Josh, a struggling musician, wins a vintage recliner in an eBay auction. Since he lives in New York ...
A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, a...
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to ...
A cartoon film about the whole heterogeneous mixture of Canada and Canadians, and the way the invisi...
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...
Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's fav...
The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly rel...
The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin re...
The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance...
In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera h...
A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead h...
Miklós Fenyö's parents returned to Communist Hungary in the mid sixties - when everyone else was fle...
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidat...
Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local comm...