A young man studying law finds a place to stay with a young conductor, thinking that he will find an idyllic Lesser Town atmosphere here and will be able to prepare for his exams in peace. The house is inhabited by distinctive characters. The owner, who sometimes loses his memory, and his lovely, modest daughter of marriageable age live here, as do an unsuccessful painter and his temperamental wife, as well as a certain mysterious Provazník, who writes anonymous letters to his neighbors in order to have malicious fun at their expense. However, the landlady causes the young man the greatest trouble...
Alma is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research...
In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a ratcatcher explain his clever plan to o...
When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor ra...
Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sa...
Cursed since childhood, dentist Charlie Logan cannot find the right woman. Even worse, he learns tha...
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...
A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was ...
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that the...
Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its ow...
Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes in...
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the...
The story of a rural landowner and his struggle with "friends" who try to deprive him of his advanta...
Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only o...
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling ...
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will...
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...