Movies: Based on play or musical

A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control....

Murcia countryside, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. Pencho, a peasant, and Xavier, son of a powerful landowner, get into a bloody fight after arguing over the distribution of irrigation water. When Xavier is injured, Pencho is forced to flee f...

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife....

From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic....

Marco Valois wants to direct a serious movie inspired by the life of a soldier living with post-traumatic stress disorder. He soon realizes that the young soldier home from Afghanistan won't open up that easily. Marco, willing to do just about anythi...

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford....

Prince bon-vivant Levan Phantiashvili finds himself in a difficult financial situation. To make his life better he agrees to marry the merchant Adam Varakhidze’s daughter, Elo. The merchant is happy for this move opens the door in a high society for ...

Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a meek woman harbors a sec...

The estranged family of a reformed prostitute calls her back home to get her married to an affluent acquaintance out of greed....

Lecturer Aarre is dating Emmi, a saleswoman at a fabric store. The small-town social circles do not approve of relationships that cross class boundaries, and neither do Emmi's mother and her brother Erkki, who works at the factory....

SG and Acke are two aged photographers dreaming about their big scoop. They no longer get the major assignments and feel that time has passed them by. At a party Acke takes a photo of a company leader getting intimate with one of the guests. Now they...

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy....

Margaret's dream of getting her differently abled daughter married shatters when she finds that the boy she chooses for her is engaged to someone else....

Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit....

The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart....

Tatyana’s husband left for the business trip. And right away the local ladies’ men begin to put the moves towards a young woman. At first she fights back, but under the pressure of good words and love-making she is ready to put up hands. But the husb...

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down....

Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga....

A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn....

David McVicar's spellbinding production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO is set in 1830s post-revolution France, where the inexorable unravelling of an old order has produced acute feelings of loss. In the relationship between Finley's suave, dashingly self-abs...