The Letter

They Don't Wear Black Tie

September 1981 •Portuguese

Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.

Men Must Fight

February 1933 •English

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

Oedipus the King

June 1968 •English

This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.

Dokud máš maminku

October 1934 •Czech

Headline Shooter

July 1933 •English

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

La reina mora

October 1937 •Spanish

When Esteban, Coral's boyfriend, is imprisoned for quarreling with a troublemaker who was trying to harass her, she decides to lock herself up in a Sevillian house to share his misfortune.

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

October 1969 •English

The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.

Wicked

October 1931 •English

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.

Topaze

February 1933 •English

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.

Smart Woman

September 1931 •English

A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.

Pick-up

March 1933 •English

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.

The Devil Is a Woman

January 1950 •Spanish

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.

The Pagan Lady

September 1931 •English

Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare. He drinks the concoction down in one swallow and also manages to outsmart Dot's boss and his rum-running hooligans. You see, Dingo is a bootlegger himself. He literally sweeps the lady off her feet and they set up housekeeping in a tropical hotel full of colorful characters, some of whom are in the bootlegging business too.

Winged Victory

December 1944 •English

Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.

My Son

October 2022 •Korean

Normal is relative. A father, taking care of the 19-year-old handicapped son who declares his independence. He can´t take nor turn down his son who wants to live like a normal person for at least one day.

The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen

January 2024 •French

Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day, in a contemporary American industrial town.

This Modern Age

August 1931 •English

A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.

Uncle Vanya

October 1970 •Russian

Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor's first wife, who manages the farm estate, and the local Doctor Astrov, both fall under Yelena's spell, while complaining of the endless ennui of their provincial existence. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Sofya, the Professor's daughter by his first wife, who works to keep the estate going with her uncle Vanya, meanwhile suffers from lack of esteem over what she sees as her own lack of beauty, and from an unrequited love for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a head when the Professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sofya's home, to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife.

The Match King

December 1932 •English

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.

Bedside

January 1934 •English

Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.