Based On Short Story Movies

A gentle John Steinbeck tale from 1938 about a farmer who is dominated by his ailing wife until a free-minded young woman turns up at his ranch with...

It's described as a redefining of the heist genre with a story centered on bank-robbing twins – one with supernatural powers and one without.

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

A thrilling detective story based on a short story by writer Hana Prošková takes place shortly after the war in a castle, where a group...

On a Saturday morning like any other, Harvey slumps into his chair and tells his wife about last night's nightmare. Fear takes hold when Janet...

Based on Oscar Wilde's fairytale with same name. Once there was a golden statue of Prince, who didn't see any sadness before his death. A barn...

Darlene, a single mom and flat-broke chambermaid in a ramshackle Carson City, NV hotel receives a quarter for a tip. "A lousy quarter", she says. As...

Charles Wharton visits Anthony Reynard, the recently widowed husband of his sister Janine. In his unsettling Victorian mansion, Reynard tells Wharton...

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, who grows up just after the First World...

The main character of this ironic, intimate story about unrequited love is an older man, Adolf, who tells the story of his greatest failure in love....

Barnabáš Kos, a meek and modest triangle-player in a state orchestra finds himself unfathomably promoted to musical director. Now drunk...

David is dragged in to the Deathroom, knowing that he will be questioned and probably killed. But the interrogation does not go as planned.

A couple rents a summer house in a small village. Residents ignore all warnings from local people about upcoming mysterious things and are drawn into...

A hopeful girl from Copenhagen’s poorest quarter reinvents herself as orphan “Brigita” to win a place in a wealthy baker’s...

A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based on several of his satirical short...