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.

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...

The fiddler Valenta has troubled his wife with his drinking and disorderly life. His daughter Rozárk...

In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour str...

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in...

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Pa...

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes ...

Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of...

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boa...

In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptigh...

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge b...

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from ...

Lucía is a greedy mother who needs to feel young, seductive and atractive when she is in her sixties...

This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-de...

A young woman, who after being cured of leprosy, is disapproved by her family and society. However, ...