Niilo, a son of a rich estate owner, is in love with a poor crofter's adopted daughter Heleena. However, on his father's orders, Niilo instead becomes engaged to Loviisa, a daughter of a wealthy landowner. When Niilo wants to call off the engagement, his proud and rejected bride begins to interfere with the lovers' relationship with the help of Penttula, who is said to be able to perform miracles.

The fiddler Valenta has troubled his wife with his drinking and disorderly life. His daughter Rozárk...

A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette i...

1952 reconstruction of Gelabert’s Café Brawl (1897). This remake is the only surviving version, recr...

Margaret keeps her neighbours at a distance and avoids contact except with Cara. She enjoys her comp...

A young wild girl, Fanchon, lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the...

Don Juan Tenorio makes a bet with a friend as to which of them will commit more outrages in a year. ...

Tricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to have t...

A clairvoyant warns divorcée Adrienne Van Couver to beware of Robert Warren, whom she has spurned. T...

In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only poor ...

Inspired by a 1975 American touring production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” he visited as a young...

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited se...

Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking a...

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves...

Set in a modern-day London of economic and political uncertainty, the story follows the intersecting...

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding w...