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...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

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...

War takes its cruel toll, which everyone must pay. It hits a small Slovak village especially hard, w...

In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, Will...

Tessa Grant, the feisty owner of a bed and breakfast in Cornwall, and David Johnson, an upper-class ...

In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide...

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends wh...

While a plague devastates the peasantry, a mad prince hosts a masquerade ball for the noble class in...

Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more th...

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled m...

In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of lov...

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...

With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes h...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

Film set in three different times. In the beginning, Miti is killed while defending his land. Then, ...