The Trial of Vivienne Ware

A Woman in Danger

February 2001 •French

After a one-night fling, Florence Lacaze, a married woman, finds her lover's dead body in a hotel bathroom. Drawn into a hunt by police, Florence is forced to defend herself and uncover the awful truth.

Bitva na kopci

November 1987 •Czech

Dokud jsou ryby němé

January 1971 •Czech

Five Star Final

September 1931 •English

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.

Sheep Without a Shepherd

December 2019 •Chinese

Li and his wife A Yu run a small business in Thailand and enjoy a happy home life with their two daughters. When their eldest daughter is violently assaulted, blackmailed and left traumatised by another student, her parents intervene, leading to a dead body which needs to be hidden, and every trace of the boy buried to cover up the accident.

The Dressmaker

October 2015 •English

In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.

Dravý prúd

January 1977 •Slovak

Men Who Sleep in Cars

October 2017 •English

Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicles, having lost all their economic and social power.

Heaven's Judgment

November 1990 •Tagalog

An oppressed housemaid has transformed herself into a wealthy and powerful business mogul through sheer dint of talent, ambition and driving need to avenge herself on her tormentors.

Hodina pravdy

December 1977 •Czech

Jarmila Slezáková, a young woman convalesces badly at home after the results of a heart attack which she suffered some time ago. After the doctors have results of the examinations they consider to hospitalize her again. They would like to settle it with her husband, their colleague. But the attractive doctor Slezák made up a story about his participation in a scientific seminar and he left with his lover, a nurse Petra to a summer house.

Queen for a Day

July 1951 •English

Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.

Trinil

January 2024 •Indonesian

Returning home after their honeymoon, a couple find themselves haunted by a disembodied head seeking its missing body.

Count the Hours!

April 1953 •English

A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

The Strip

August 1951 •English

Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.

Predohra v mol

January 1983 •Slovak

Mŕtvi učia živých

May 1984 •Slovak

Polnoc bude o päť minút

January 1962 •Slovak

Scandal Street

February 1938 •English

Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.

Kde leží naša bieda

January 1965 •Slovak

True Confession

December 1937 •English

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.