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...

Wealthy but arrogant writer Jean Hervey comes home one day to find that his wife, Gabrielle, has lef...

In this sequel to Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," a boy recalls his life with an elderly cousi...

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lo...
The story of the great strike of the workers building the Cervena Skala - Mergecany railway line

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the ...

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to the...

Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and hi...

Alice checks into a lonely hotel room at night and sets about making preparations to end her life, w...

With divorce on the horizon, a couple are about to find out that a lunch meeting with the wife's att...

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes h...

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with ...

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...