Heartbreak House

Dying Beyond Their Means

September 2014 •Spanish

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.

A Home with a View

January 2019 •

The Lo family live in an old flat in the middle of a noisy neighborhood: father, mother, unemployed son, teenage daughter and his elderly, disabled father. Now a billboard is blocking their perfect view of the harbor, and their already chaotic life becomes sheer madness.

Benjamín's Wife

January 1991 •Spanish

Benjamin is an old bachelor who lives with his sister. One day he falls in love with the young Natividad. Seeing that the love letter strategy doesn't work with the girl, Benjamín decides to kidnap her.

Pasodoble

June 1988 •Spanish

A family, expelled from their shack, occupies the museum in Cordoba where once lived the prince who, in his youth, was the grandmother's lover. The curators and administrators of the museum, aided by a couple of inexperienced policemen, harass the squatters to force them to leave.

Father Never Bothered

December 2016 •Spanish

Mr. Villegas, an old man with old-fashioned thoughts, has to move with his son after he has been kicked out from his retirement home.

La Pepperette

March 2014 •French

Forbidden Dreams

January 1973 •Italian

A young priest arrives in a small village because his old colleague is old and frail and cannot uphold the law of God with the necessary strength. He means well but the hypocrisy of the villagers who do not trust him makes his task only harder and while struggling for his beliefs, he falls victim to the sins of the flesh.

Adele Spitzeder

September 1972 •German

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. Initially dubbed the "Angel of the poor", she was arrested for fraud after the whole scheme collapsed.

Manöver

August 1989 •German

Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ...

Finding Mother

February 2017 •Russian

A precocious orphan from Central Asia comes to America to find his long lost mother. Along the way he befriends a down on his luck small time hustler, and together they set in motion a daring scheme to solve all their problems. However, things don't go according to plan.

Magnetické vlny léčí

December 1965 •Czech

Air Mail Special

December 1941 •English

Count Basie does a little rhyming rapping before going into this Benny Goodman instrumental composition. While he's playing, plenty of couples are jitterbugging constantly until, one by one, they get tired and start to fall down on the floor.

The Hippopotamus

March 2017 •English

Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.

An Upstart

July 1961 •Korean

A poor boarder inherits 30 million dollars from an American soldier whose life he saved during the Korean War. The stingy landlady instantly turns into a completely different person, women swarm around him, and charities ask him for donations. Gangsters come forward and try to kill him...

El hombre que las enamora

December 1944 •Spanish

The Way of All Pests

February 1941 •English

Various members of the insect world join forces to harass a man who unknowingly makes their lives miserable.

The Ball

January 2003 •German

A dark comedy set in an Eastern European village populated by odd characters but also by Nadia - a statuesque beauty and focal point of many villagers' lives.

Extract

September 2009 •English

The owner of a factory that produces flavor extracts, Joel Reynold seems to have it all, but really doesn't. What's missing is sexual attention from his wife, Suzie. Joel hatches a convoluted plan to get Suzie to cheat on him, thereby clearing the way for Joel to have an affair with Cindy, an employee. But what Joel doesn't know is that Cindy is a sociopathic con artist, and a freak workplace accident clears the way for her to ruin Joel forever.