The Iron Woman

On My Own

July 1993 •English

Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother lives in England. When his parents visit him in the holidays, Simon discovers that his mother has schizophrenia.

Tricks of the Trade

October 1968 •English

A married man gets blackmailed by a degenerate couple after having a one-night threesome with them.

Master of Love

September 1919 •German

A man's devotion for a woman brings about his ruin.

Emmanuelle

June 1974 •French

An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.

Dilek Taşı

May 1978 •Turkish

Şerif Ağa wants to marry the girl, who works with her, to a rich man. Zeynep resists but when she hears that the young man he loves will be killed, she has to accept it.

The Stolen Bride

August 1927 •English

The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.

An Eye for Beauty

May 2014 •French

An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.

Goï-Goï

January 1995 •French

A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.

The Sporting Age

March 1928 •English

Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young male secretary Phillip Kingston )Carroll Nye), regains his eyesight. He keeps this from his wife, who continues her affair. Finally, he invites his young niece Nancy Driscoll (Josephine Borio) in the hopes she will fall for Philip and vice-versa. His ploy works, James reveals he can see again, and husband and wife are reconciled.

Pygmalion

March 1939 •English

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Still Walking

June 2008 •Japanese

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Korkein voitto

September 1929 •Finnish

The heavily indebted baron Henrik von Hagen, who loves women and partying, learns that his former lover, Russian ballerina Madame Vera Vasiljevna, will be visiting Finland. They are reunited and sparks fly. But Vasiljevan's new hobby casts a shadow over their romance.

Father's Affair

December 2003 •Dutch

Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika, was unfaithful before she died. How else could she have the child that Armin always thought was his? His paranoia drives him to find the truth.

Wygrać marzenia

March 2022 •Polish

A snowboarder, whose career was interrupted by an injury, meets a determined pianist who inspires him to pursue his Olympic dreams.

The Power of the Dog

October 2021 •English

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

Bettina Loved a Soldier

August 1916 •English

Very wealthy Bettina is also very reluctant to get married. She changes her mind in a hurry when she meets Reynaud, the nephew of Abbe Constantin, the poverty-stricken religious leader of the small French village of Longueval.

Bobbie of the Ballet

June 1916 •English

Wealthy Jack Stimson (Jay Belasco) falls in love with Broadway diva Velma Vrooman (Gretchen Lederer), and for her sake bankrolls the musical production in which she is currently starred. But when Velma proves to be fickle and unreliable, Jack shifts his affections to humble chorus girl Bobbie (Louise Lovely).

Broken Fetters

July 1916 •English

The Bugler of Algiers

November 1916 •English

Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village in the early 1870s; Gabrielle's brother Anatole (Kingsley Benedict) is Pierre's best friend. The two young men are called to service by their country and go to Algiers. Anatole becomes the bugler and one day when he is commanded to sound the retreat, he sounds for the troops to charge instead. Anatole becomes a hero because of his action, but when the two men make their victorious return home, they find the Picard home ransacked and Gabrielle gone.

The Crippled Hand

May 1916 •English

Diminutive heroine Ella Hall dreams that she's Cinderella, and that a wealthy gentleman of her acquaintance (played by Leonard) is her Prince Charming. All of this takes place during a musical stage production of Cinderella, a sequence distinguished by its authentic backstage atmosphere.