In 1951, the well-known Czech actress Jiřina Štěpničková receives a letter from Austria from director František Čáp, who has recently emigrated. He invites her to the West and promises her roles in theater and film. She decides to seize the opportunity and flee. Together with a small group of people and her young son Jirka, she entrusts herself to a smuggler and embarks on a risky journey across the border. But something goes wrong. They are caught. Everything had been planned in advance. The smuggler himself is a member of the StB. But that's only the beginning.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...

Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters.

A young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts a...

At the funeral of his schoolmate, the nearly-fifty-year old architect Jirí Mánek (Václav Voska) meet...

Stranded at a rest stop in the mountains during a blizzard, a recovering addict discovers a kidnappe...

Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to cr...

It follows a widow with two children who befriends some interesting characters in her small seaside ...