The suffocating conditions in a bourgeois family were depicted in several films in the second half of the 1950s - this one is one of the lesser known, although it achieves great emotional impact, free from the first ideological pressures. The title character, the owner of the tenement house Mrs. Dulská, controls her relatives and tenants with a firm and despotic hand. To achieve her goals, she masterfully combines tears, blackmail and insidious intrigues, or does not hesitate to abuse the trusting and handsome maid Hanka when she wants her son not to fool around. Everything suddenly turns around when Hank gets pregnant... But the appearance of a good reputation is more important to her than anything.

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is ...

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relativ...

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assi...

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires ...

When Ambrosia, the pastor's cook, leaves the village for a while to give birth to the child she is e...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a vi...

When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistr...
Sir John Falstaff, a bon vivant and womanizer, courts Mrs. Ford one day and Mrs. Page the next. They...

The young Gaby is happily married to the musician Peter but cannot ignore the impression that his fr...

Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of emp...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...