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 summer of 1944, long-range reconnaissance soldier Jaakko Tulivaara returns to his family and ...

A television adaptation of the classic comedy by Ukrainian playwright N. V. Gogol.

"Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to...

Paavo Mäkinen's alcoholism is hard on the whole family. His wife Terttu falls into depression and is...

The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has bee...

This Czech sophisticated romantic comedy, filmed by director Anton also in a parallel French version...

Associate Professor Jakub Johanek was looking forward to his uncle's inheritance and celebrated it w...

An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.

An architect, who has recently married a new, younger wife, tries to re-connect with his ex-wife, wh...

An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.

An artist bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a...

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...

Two women named Mary -- both recently sexually assaulted by the same man -- meet at the police stati...

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony.

Amol, a child, is confined to his adoptive uncle's home by an incurable disease. He stands in the co...

Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public inde...

A modern adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, set in contemporary Helsinki. Raskolnikov...

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. ...

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a...

Ran and Leela are passionately in love with each other. The only problem is that their respective cl...