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...

In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide...
Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.

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...

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that the...

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks o...

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

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel...

Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank i...

Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Al...

When the yacht of her former lover Mario Tudor arrives in Split, widowed Countess de Milesi, plagued...

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells ri...

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, alth...

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...