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.

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistr...

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 ...

Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a wait...

The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the si...

Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and break in...

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

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...

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...
Woman concert star seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid indus...
Jonáš, an aging comedian, wanders the restored Semafor theater lost in memories of his glory days. H...

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets a...
Sir John Falstaff, a bon vivant and womanizer, courts Mrs. Ford one day and Mrs. Page the next. They...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...