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...

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedl...

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations ...

Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes ...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

Based on the controversial off-Broadway musical comedy revue, "Oh! Calcutta!" is a series of musical...

Set in the 1890s, Anna-Liisa and Johannes are young lovers. She agrees to his proposal because she i...

Pharmacy student Aina Zinck and doctor Yrjö Kallio are a young couple who are drawn into patterns of...

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.