This production of Ostrava TV Studios was inspired by actual events which occurred in the Ostrava region of Moravia during the 1920s and 1930s. A hedonistic bon vivant of a lawyer named Zajícek (played by Václav Postránecký) came up with a sophisticated finance speculation scheme which exceeded the bounds of law. When discovered it became one of the most closely-followed First Republic scandals.

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining inco...

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's sky...

Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects the...

The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelij...

Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the ...

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

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an appar...

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local...

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity...

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her pe...

In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visi...

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants t...

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a c...

An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dr...

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets ha...

From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in wh...