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A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

Many local dignitaries are gathered at an auction organized by the notary Dr Jan Karas (Oldrich Nový) at Lucín castle to sell off the belongings of the late count. Most interest is aroused by a portrait of a beautiful noble girl, but no-one buys it because it is said to be cursed. Until the young count arrives to decide what to do with the portrait, Karas keeps it at home. Fascinated by the beauty of the girl, Karas spends hours in front of the portrait. Then one day he kisses it and the girl (Lída Baarová) comes to life and steps out of the picture. The girl introduces herself as countess Blanka of Blankenberg, and has no intention of getting back into the canvas.

After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child abandoned by his father, a millionaire.

A six part series about the women Hitler enjoyed and adored.

This romantic story turns on a stirring infatuation that takes hold of three young people under the influence of Simon, a Prague student. After the study year, 18 year-old Julio returns to his parental home, a little chateau on the Otava river. There he converges with his childhood friend Petr and the young boatman's daughter Klárka. Sharing her beguilement with Simon, who has quickly turned a tranquil summer atmosphere into a relationship drama, is Julio's cousin Rosa.

In Hitler's Reich of men, the role of women was firmly established. Even for girls, watchwords were loyalty, duty, sacrifice. For millions, membership in the Federation of German Girls, the female Hitler Youth, is compulsory.

Sherlock Holmes must find someone to impersonate King Fernando XXIII of Puerto Rico, but the double he chooses doesn't prove to be as manageable as the great detective could have hoped.

Film adaptation of Johann Strauß's operetta "Die Fledermaus" transposed to the year 1937.

Although the heroine works as a seamstress, she would like to become a designer. And she does have talent, even a businessman from Paris shows interest in her. But much turns out to be different than it first appears.

Foreign spies infiltrate: a German airplane factory testing a new bomber, a metal works, and a bank, in this propagandistic warning to guard your tongues when talking to strangers.

Young and stunningly beautiful Hana is thrown into the street after her mother catches her stepfather sexually harassing Hana. She finds a new job at a café where she becomes the object of lust for her new boss and the sleazy male customers. Hana, who is still repulsed by men, rejects their offers and expensive gifts. She later falls in love with a young composer Pavel but he soon falls seriously ill and only an expensive medical treatment can save him. Hana starts thinking about accepting the indecent proposal made by one of her customers to get the money needed for Pavel's therapy.

Beatrice meets the famous dancer Ruda and falls in love with him. But Ruda disappears with the circus. Beatrice gets a new engagement at another circus and makes a career as a dancer with tigers.

While seated one evening in a wine-bar, a successful writer Jan Herold (Oldrich Nový) makes the acquaintance of a young, beginning painter, Jarmila Bendová (Lída Baarová). Jarmila has a financial and artistic crisis because she has lost the model for her last painting, without which she is unable to bring off her exhibition, and without selling her paintings at the exhibition she will not be able to pay her debt to her landlord. Herold comes to know of her problems and because he has fallen in love with the girl he tries to give her all possible help. Disguised as an old man he models for her so she will be able to finish her painting, as a exotic fortune-teller he frightens the landlord so he will not clamor for the rent from her, and he arranges an exhibition for her at his new publisher's in a prestigious gallery.

The Sky is Burning (1958). In Northern Africa, 1940, an Italian captain in command of a squadron of bombers is forced to land in an area occupied by the allies.

Andras Pulac, a young pianist, refuses to perform a concert in honor of a senior Soviet leader, as a sign of rebellion against the 1956 invasion of Hungary. His refusal, although he does not know it, harms the organizers of a demonstration against the communist cruelty, since his concert had been chosen like slogan. When Pulac finds out, he agrees to give the concert. Andras and Maria Kondor, the daughter of a communist journalist, are in love and decide to get married before the concert. Meanwhile, communist repression in the streets provokes the anger of the Hungarian people and gives rise to a real revolution.

Raffaello Sanzio falls in love with Margherita, a maiden of the people. He becomes her lover and lives with her, but their relationship ignites the jealousy of an aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl.

Carmine, butler and pygmalion to a starlet, gets herself a rich husband and gets rid of a broke suitor of hers.