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...

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

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

Tessa Grant, the feisty owner of a bed and breakfast in Cornwall, and David Johnson, an upper-class ...

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, ...
An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his ...
Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesso...

Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revoluti...

Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, a...

Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Al...
The film is set in the 1840s. A charming village girl, Rozina, falls in love with a farmhand, Martin...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...
High school teacher Jiří is torn from his solitude and everyday life by an unexpected nighttime visi...

A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the sto...

A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals because it is haunt...

The holidays of Vince Adamek, a student of the agricultural school in his native village in South Mo...

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...

Helga Suotorppa has given birth to an illegitimate child while working as a maid. Inkeri, the kind-h...