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.

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess...

Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne t...

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes...

Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates ...

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexic...

Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?

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Ilona Jonsson deceives the old industrialist Österberg. He takes pity on the poor girl, who looks li...

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The film tells a story about the extraordinary journey of the modest little girl Gerda. She is looki...
Conscientious middle-class clerk, Mr. Lahtinen tries to find the melody of his life.
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A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

Margaret keeps her neighbours at a distance and avoids contact except with Cara. She enjoys her comp...

A former college student writes essays for cash until a client becomes her lover.

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Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is...

Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contami...