The story of how it turned out when a young lawyer tried to intellectually elevate a cute dancer from Prague's bohemian milieu. Journalist Šmíd introduces his long-time lover, a cheerful but simple girl Fanynka, to his friend, a young lawyer. He decides to take good care of the girl, buying her gifts and even furnishing her with a nice apartment. When he is called up to the army, he asks his friend Šmíd to look after Fanynka for him. After all, he himself intends to employ her and educate her intellectually. He gives her the task of reading serious literature once a week, about which the girl is to give him extensive testimony in a letter. But Fanynka soon starts to get fed up with the intellectual diet...

Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only o...

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A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to the...

Alice checks into a lonely hotel room at night and sets about making preparations to end her life, w...

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With divorce on the horizon, a couple are about to find out that a lunch meeting with the wife's att...

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the ...
The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the lat...

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

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The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will ...

A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the sto...

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans a...

A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employ...