The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because of his wasteful and spoiled wife, and when the situation cannot be saved, he shoots himself. His mother, a simple village woman, takes in her widowed daughter-in-law and teenage grandson on the condition that they both help her to compensate for all the damage. For the city lady, the hard village work is suffering. The same goes for young Bořík, a gifted pianist who finds it difficult to give up his dreams of an artistic career...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in tran...

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infa...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, ...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

While a plague devastates the peasantry, a mad prince hosts a masquerade ball for the noble class in...
The story of student love in the most difficult times, because even during the Protectorate, young p...

War takes its cruel toll, which everyone must pay. It hits a small Slovak village especially hard, w...

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the ...
Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesso...
An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his ...

A typical Saturday morning for an unhappily married couple decades into their lives together becomes...