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...

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

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

Bobby is an underachieving high school kid with a deep love for motorcycles. His most recent achieve...

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy jo...

The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will ...

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

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchm...

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the ...

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

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

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

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

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends wh...

It's 1975, and John Dykstra, a lowly college professor, with not much confidence but a semi-successf...
Three "miniatures" touching on romantic relationships between men and women from different perspecti...

The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slo...