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.

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

Lucía is a greedy mother who needs to feel young, seductive and atractive when she is in her sixties...

A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees...

Docent Einar Koskimaa is applying for a professorship in odontology, or dentistry. He is not selecte...

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

In this modern take on Edmond Rostand's classic play "Cyrano de Bergerac," C. D. Bales is the witty,...

A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites ...

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding of...

For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When...

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed ...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

Fifty years after Richard Wesley's original production of Black Terror, Richard Lawson directs a bi-...

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The proud widow of Sillankorva falls in love with her young neighbor, Jaakko Hallan, whom she offers...

A story set in post-war Helsinki, where the last released prisoners of war arrive. They are accompan...

Esko is going to a neighboring village to marry Kreeta after her father arranged the marriage with E...

A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which...