From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with "Chiny I Lyudi" ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov, "Anna On The Neck", "Death Of A Petty Official" and "Chameleon" were assembled for the silent screen.

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert Wes...

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up s...

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes in...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...

Cursed since childhood, dentist Charlie Logan cannot find the right woman. Even worse, he learns tha...

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...
Two broke singles throw a fake wedding to cash in on the registry and the very real problems the mak...

A short satire by Ladislav Rychman on "mischief" in the authorities. The successor of the General Di...

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongin...
The puppet film Mashkin Killed Koshkin, based on the short story of the same name by Daniil Kharms, ...

Two historical stories about love. In the story "The Arabian Horse", the scheming townsman Messer Fr...

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for e...

Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its ow...

Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank i...

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that the...

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will...