Vaihdokas

Pygmalion

February 1948 •English

Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?

Memoirs of a Nun

February 1927 •German

Sister Angelika has the power of life or death over her former tormentor, now sick and placed in her care.

Temporary Marriage

June 1923 •

Temporary Marriage is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Kenneth Harlan, Mildred Davis, and Myrtle Stedman.

Maryša

March 1935 •Czech

Baal

January 1970 •German

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Death Takes a Holiday

October 1971 •English

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

The Aerial

April 2007 •Spanish

An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city's only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city's inhabitants.

And a Nightingale Sang

April 1989 •English

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.

Quincy Adams Sawyer

December 1922 •English

Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.

The Men She Married

November 1916 •English

Tricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to have the first husband reappear and cause her much worry.

The Social Leper

March 1917 •English

Adrianne is does not love Robert, but loves Henry. Henry is in love with Lorraine, but he fears she loves John still. Lorraine loves Henry, but John remains in her mind. John loves Lorraine, but his ex-wife Adrianne ruined his chance. Robert is angry.

Closer

December 2004 •English

A love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Four strangers - with one thing in common: each other.

The Country Girl

December 1954 •English

An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening.

The Heart of a Siren

March 1925 •English

This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.

Dievčatko z predmestia

January 1982 •Slovak

Death and the Maiden

May 1994 •English

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

Hamlet

December 1996 •English

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Steel Magnolias

November 1989 •English

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

Quills

November 2000 •English

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.

Beautiful Thing

June 1996 •English

Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.