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...
Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank i...
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel...
Commissioner Bartošek is visited by Dr. Goldberg, who reports the disappearance of his friend, the f...
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in tran...
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...
When a Cook Island school cleaner answers an unusual message on the wall of a girls' toilet cubicle,...
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rul...
An unconventionally seen story from the period of the Slovak National Uprising will especially inter...
Josef Lachman, once a security officer, serves twelve years for aiding an SS fugitive’s escape. Upon...
Emma Zunz, who is planning a crime, intends to get away with it by presenting an audacious alibi.
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infa...
Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends wh...