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.

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...

Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she ...

The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel...

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She...

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Af...

In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the fol...

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself b...

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance w...

In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only poor ...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted whe...

Madrid, Spain, early thirties. The charming playboy Sergio Hernán is an unscrupulous womanizer who o...

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...

Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title rol...
A modernized comedy of Branislav Nusic's novel, about the life and work of a "small manufacturer", h...

Inspired by a 1975 American touring production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” he visited as a young...

Monologuist Spalding Gray talks about the great difficulties he experienced while attempting to writ...

A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling...

Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting h...

Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaine...