The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the administrator Psekov that his master, the cornet Klyausov, has been murdered. A commission, headed by an investigating judge, is sent to the estate of the debauched nobleman. The decisive evidence is a Swedish match.
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...
On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridicu...
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with ...
A hopeful girl from Copenhagen’s poorest quarter reinvents herself as orphan “Brigita” to win a plac...
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions...
A gentle John Steinbeck tale from 1938 about a farmer who is dominated by his ailing wife until a fr...
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...
A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short sto...
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans a...
A poor girl named Sanchika longs to find a mysterious treasure hidden in the rocks. In the end, she ...
Based on four of the six short stories compiled in Murakami Haruki's anthology, After the Quake expl...
Teenage Peter doesn't get along with his strict father. And when his father sells his beloved bitch ...
Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revoluti...
Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesso...
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, Will...