Drama

A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn’t know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.Read More »

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Through fragments of Boris’s life and his son Matej, the film expresses the conflict of generations, the already existing gap because of their ideological coloring as well as their different opinions towards the capability of living, worthy of a human being. After several years spent in prison for political reasons, Boris comes back home. In his apartment, where after the divorce with his wife he lives alone, he finds that his son Matej moved in. His son is already an adult and he’s trying to make a living as a pop-musician. He sets up an improvised sound recording studio in his father’s apartment. Boris doesn’t like Matej’s life-style and his behavior toward his girlfriend and his other friends in general, as he find it a life without sense, without plans and ideals.Read More »

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Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.Read More »

Set in 1970’s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother’s death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.Read More »

Following three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union.Read More »

kratkyfilm.com: The fortress in the setting of the landscape gives an impression of a den or a detention colony of Kafka’s fiction. The watch-towers, barbed-wire-fencing, severe guarding, all that in all-prevailin feeling of strangeness and mystery provoke fear. Immediately, the question will arise, what is it that is so strictly guarded. We witness the absurdity as expressed by Franz Kafka, and the nonsensicality of the bureaucratic and the barracklike spiritlessness as ridiculed by Jaroslav Hasek in his soldier Svejk. The story takes place in the second half of the eighties. The regime of power is tired, but any changes are out of sight. Some people are trying to find their asylum in their privacy, some defect. Who is not willing to get adapted, lives at the outskirts of the society. Read More »

Danielle and Marc, two students, fall in love. After a couple of months, they move in together. A few years later, their relationship is in crisis. They take turns running away from each other and running after each other.Read More »

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A child has a fantastic dream. After playing with toy soldiers, the child dreams about them and identifies with them, forgetting about his child games and friendships. In the dream, the toy soldiers get together and rebel against the child and win. The child awakens and realizes that friendships and child games can not be replaced by anything.Read More »

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Among the country boys who go in the army is the recently married young man, Damjan, the only son of Vitan, the miller. The young bride stays in her father-in-law’s house… days keep passing for both of them. They bear and share the hard work in the mill as well as on the whole estate. During the long and monotonous nights the young Irina looks forward to the return of her husband Damjan. The frequent visits while passing by of Mecheto, a man called the Little Bear, who is both a churchman and a salesman, disturb Irina. She cannot stand him because of his inappropriate jokes about her youth, her prettiness and nonetheless loneliness. …Read More »