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...
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will...
Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only o...
On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridicu...
Cursed since childhood, dentist Charlie Logan cannot find the right woman. Even worse, he learns tha...
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay...
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...
Two women attending a women's seminar on personal development walk out in acute embarrassment during...
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...
A young couple lives in a shared apartment with their grandmother, who constantly interferes in thei...
A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was ...
Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes in...
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the...
Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its ow...
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that the...