Movies

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and...

It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When they're having...

For many years, Vassa Zheleznova has been leading the family business and, despite the inconspicuous children, her dissolute husband, alcoholic...

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...

A paint-on-glass animated film (one of the first of its kind) about a dying falcon and a stupid snake.

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

Night Inn (Chinese: 夜店; pinyin: Yè Diǎn) is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by Huang Zuolin and...

A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their...

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...

“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely matches its essence. For this work is not...

Theatre adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s timeless drama first published in 1901, about narrow-mindedness, exclusivism, containing one’s self...

A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky.

The play “Zykovs” was written in 1912, during a time of confusion and depression in Russian society, a period of pre-war spiritual and...

Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of...

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

Timid old woman Pelageya Nilovna observes the revolutionary activities of her son Pavel Vlasov and gradually comes to realize that his cause is a...

The action of the famous play about the inhabitants of the flophouse has been transferred to our days. The heroes live in a landfill, look for...

In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to...