Helén and Jenö are waiting for a child and are desperately searching for an accomodation. They eventually sign a contract with an old lady, Szeréna, who lives in a two-family house. According to the contract, they are to pay a moderate rent and they have to take care of her until her death. After the first weeks, Szeréna accuses the couple of trying to poison her and build...
Kirpi is a middle-class writer whose latest screenplay has been rejected. He is married to a sharp-tongued woman who dubs the voice of Marilyn Monroe. He will find himself involved in Kiraz's marital distress, his servant. Left Istanbul to reach Kiraz in her village, in the Turkish countryside, he finds out that away from the sophistication of the capital, life is regulated ...
Synopsis Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the Czech wine country, and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving them more than they are asking for. Then, one day, things change and Vlasta is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she...
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this love affair with someone not of royal blood breeches protocol. The Crown allows the union only after the couple agrees to a morganatic marriage. The emperor further neutralizes Fr...
Architect Walter Craig arrives at a country house to be restored where he meets some guests invited for a party. He immediately experience a déjà vu, as if he was living in one of his recurrent dreams. He knows the dream has a scaring ending, but he doesn't remember it. When he reveals to the guests that he has already seen them all in a dream, they start entertaining each o...
Hiraoka breaks into Riichi's house, while he is away with his son, and he raped his wife. She decides to commit suicide but not before having seen her son for the last time. When her husband is back, Sadako can't find the courage to tell him what happened. Two days after, while Riichi is visiting his lover and colleague, Hiraoka breaks into his house again and Sadako takes a...
During the war, lieutenant Hashimoto and three other accomplices, buried a cache of morphine in an air-raid shelter under a military hospital and they agreed to meet again ten years later to dig out the treasure. On that day, five people show up, but Hashimoto originally had only three accomplices. He hid the morphine late at night, so they did not know each other's identiti...
The film tells the confused and complex life of a family of itinerant actors who comes originally from Osaka. The young director, who has abandoned the university for love of the theatre, is secretely in love with his son's wife, but he is tormented by his youngest daughter, still unmarried. During their tournée, they stop in a tiny village where all these relationships will...
Al Roberts, a piano player working in New York, hitchhikes to reach his girlfriend Sue in Los Angeles. Haskell, a rich man, gives him a ride and start telling him about the last hitchhiker he gave a ride to: a girl who scratched his face when he made advances to her. Al takes his turn driving while Haskel falls asleep. When he tries to wake him up, Al realizes that he is dea...
A young priest in poor health is sent to the parish of Ambricourt, a small provincial village. The priest keeps a daily journal in which he records "the humble and meaningless secrets of a life without misteries". Not welcome by his parishioners because of his ascetic lifestyle and criticized by his colleagues who think that he neglets the real problems of his community, the...
