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...

The adventures of a young shopgirl who learns that having money is not the key to happiness.

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...

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in W...

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 ...
A high school romantic dramedy, based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."

An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run ...

The first Finnish full-length feature film and the first film adaptation of Minna Canth’s play of th...

A young woman, who after being cured of leprosy, is disapproved by her family and society. However, ...

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing...