The Mayor of Rione Sanità

Next to Normal

Invalid date •English

A mother struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family.

Sonatína pre páva

January 1979 •Slovak

Šesť postáv hľadá autora

January 1964 •Slovak

Jenůfa

January 1976 •Czech

Tonight Is Ours

January 1933 •English

A princess is torn between her royal obligations and her love for a handsome Frenchman.

Tuomari Martta

March 1943 •Finnish

Martha's problem is balancing work and family. According to her husband Juho and father-in-law Kalle, the mother's place is at home with the child and not at work. Only her mother-in-law Ilona encourages Martta to advance in her career.

The Pay-Off

October 1930 •English

A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.

Benilde or the Virgin Mother

November 1975 •Portuguese

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.

Querido Fidel

July 2021 •Italian

Vanyushin's Children

April 1915 •Russian

The Golem

February 1936 •French

The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

Labyrint srdce

November 1961 •Czech

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

May 1960 •English

England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.

Anna Lucasta

November 1958 •English

The estranged family of a reformed prostitute calls her back home to get her married to an affluent acquaintance out of greed.

The Maids

April 1975 •English

A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.

Fortune and Men's Eyes

June 1971 •English

Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky.

Falling Angels

December 2008 •Finnish

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.

Applause

March 1973 •English

An aspiring actress, whose sugar-coated appearance belies her ruthless drive, worms herself into the life of an aging star and schemes to replace her on the stage as the star of a new play.

Husband's Holiday

December 1931 •English

A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.

Château en Suède

June 2008 •French