The Way of the Cross (1938)
• April 15th, 1938 • 0h 0min
Drama
Overview
In a small village in the Chodsko region, people live with daily worries about making a living. Many are dependent on work on the estate. Only the priest Jiří is able to stand up against the undignified conditions here, but he receives no gratitude, because the steward turns the villagers against him. Staněk, an engineer whose son Ondřej is studying at a grammar school, also works on the estate. The boy would like to continue studying law in Prague and is very surprised by his mother's wish for him to become a priest. His mother relies on the priest to talk Ondřej out of it. However, Jiří was once in the same situation, so he knows how difficult it is to perform well a mission that one has not chosen for oneself...
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Released on: 2025-10-09
Romance, Music, Drama, Thriller
Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public inde...
Sternenhoch
Released on: 2019-09-27
Drama, Music
Trapped in an abusive marriage, a wealthy German prince desperately seeks a way out. But what appear...
Vieras mies
Released on: 1957-11-08
Drama
A couple who have moved from the city manage a collapsing farm. The man Alfred is an alcoholic, ther...
Boring Love
Released on: 2009-11-02
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Ped’s life gets complicated when his ex moves in—and a male co-worker tries to steal his heart.
Memoirs of a French Whore
Released on: 1979-10-17
Drama
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the cha...
Death in Her Hands
Released on:
Mystery, Thriller, Drama
An elderly widow's life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods.
The Beautiful Beast
Released on: 2006-11-03
Drama, Thriller, Horror
Louise, a widow, lives with her son Patrice and her daughter Isabelle-Marie in a house in the countr...
Zero Kelvin
Released on: 1995-09-29
Drama, Thriller
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Gr...
Long Good Thursday
Released on: 2024-09-06
Drama, Comedy
While on a shopping trip, Grump smells Saimi, a woman who smells just right and throws the whole man...
The Cistern
Released on: 2001-11-10
Drama
In 1974, a group of 11-year-old boys spend the last carefree summer of their childhood, unaware that...
The Striker with Number 9
Released on: 1988-01-01
Drama
The story of a talented yet self-destructive soccer player in Greece. Based on the novel of the sam...
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway
Released on: 2021-06-11
Animation, Action, Drama, Science Fiction
12 years after Char's rebellion, Hathaway Noa leads an insurgency against Earth Federation, but meet...
Rundi
Released on: 1990-04-13
Drama, Crime
Taisto Peräkorpi, who has experienced a difficult childhood, is in a prison cycle that gets worse ov...
The Bear
Released on: 1998-12-25
Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, TV Movie
A polar bear breaks out of his enclosure to bring a little girl's teddy bear back to her. While she ...
Fever Mounts at El Pao
Released on: 1959-12-05
Drama
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow ...
Time of Violence
Released on: 1988-03-28
Drama, History
In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an e...
Salomé
Released on: 1978-01-01
Drama
Short film by Almodovar, which tells the origin of the veil. Abraham, walking with Isaac, meets Salo...
Léon Morin, Priest
Released on: 1961-09-22
Drama, Romance
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a pr...
The Perfect Education
Released on: 1999-01-30
Drama
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that h...