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.

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

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

A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the sto...
Three "miniatures" touching on romantic relationships between men and women from different perspecti...

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...

It's 1975, and John Dykstra, a lowly college professor, with not much confidence but a semi-successf...

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

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances s...

Set in the late 80s in a quiet, rural village headed by a suspicious, conspiring group of nasty lead...

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

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

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...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...
High school teacher Jiří is torn from his solitude and everyday life by an unexpected nighttime visi...

In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide...