여성과 남성의 성 역할이 뒤바뀐 상황을 보여준다. 여성들은 남자들처럼 클럽에서 담배를 피며 담화를 나누고, 남성들은 아이를 돌보며 온갖 가사일을 책임진다. 남자들은 더 이상 참지 못하고 불만을 터트리기 시작하는데...

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under the microscope. The "microbes" coalesce and form different shapes, creating caricatures of various people, such as mothers-in-law and drunks. These animated characters goof around in traditional cartoon fashion.

Women attending a suffragette club meeting wear pants, boss their husbands, neglect their kids, play poker, and fight. Their husbands stay home to care for the children and run the household.

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.

Pompeyo and Rodolfo work in a newspaper, but they dream of becoming film actors, so they go to a casting for an American film that will be shot in Madrid for a few days; but things will not turn out as they expect…

휴양도시 니스에 관한 매혹적이면서도 신랄한 관찰. 아름다운 풍광을 지닌 관광지로서의 니스가 아니라, 웨이터, 청소부, 댄서 등 그 안에서 살아가고 있는 사람들의 모습을 카메라에 담아 역동적인 삶의 활기를 보여주는 한편 해변과 거리에서 나른하게 소일하는 관광객들의 모습을 통해 사회의 모순과 위선을 꼬집고 있다. (필름포럼 - 2011년 에세이영화 특별상영)

독일이 자랑하는 20세기 서양연극사의 거장 <베르톨트 브레히트>의 대표작!

도덕적으로 사는 것이 아니라 도덕을 수단으로 팔며 살아가는

자본주의시대의 뒷면을 신랄한 풍자와 비판적 웃음으로 풀어낸 브레히트 연극의 결정판 1900년 무렵 런던을 무대로 도적단 수령 메키는 거지짓을 기업화한 사업가 피첨의 딸 폴리와 결혼하지만 매춘부 제니를 배신함으로써 투옥된다. 총감의 딸 루시의 도움으로 탈옥한 메키는 다시 잡혀 교수대에 오르는데..

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.

웨일즈의 외딴 지역에서 끊임없는 폭풍우에 시달리던 다섯 명의 여행자가 오래된 저택에서 피난처를 찾습니다.

야심찬 뉴욕의 사교계 여성이 호화로운 만찬을 계획하지만 사업가인 남편 올리버가 재정난에 시달리면서 부부 사이에 긴장감이 감돌기 시작한다. 한편, 까칠한 댄 패커드와 그의 섹시한 배우자 키티를 비롯한 상류층 친구들과 동료들은 서로 얽히고 설킨 관계로 엮여있다. 결국 많은 기대를 모았던 만찬에서 폭로가 이어지는데...

An early short film by Douglas Sirk (Detlef Sierck) which takes a satirical look at dubious business practices during the Weimar Republic. It was banned under the title "Zwei Genies" but released as "Zwei Windhunde" after revisions were made.

플랑드르 지역이 스페인의 지배를 받고 있던 17세기. 사육제 준비로 분주한 마을에 스페인 공작과 그의 군대가 마을로 오고 있다는 소식이 전해진다. 시장은 죽은 체하고, 군인들은 도망가기 바쁜데, 시장의 부인은 침착하게 마을 여인들을 모아 공작을 맞을 준비를 하고, 여성 특유의 지혜로 마을의 평화를 지키려 한다. 프랑스의 시적 리얼리즘을 확립한 페데의 익살스러운 시대극. 페데의 정치적 관심이 녹아있으며, 정성껏 만든 세트와 화려한 의상들은 풍부한 회화적 요소를 구성한다.

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic, the brave female citizens decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet. (German version of the French film La Kermesse héroïque, 1935.)

Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.

Filiberto Aguirre abandons his career as captain of the merchant navy because he has well-founded hopes of receiving a great inheritance. But time goes by, the inheritance does not arrive and his family's economic situation worsens every day.

Set in Bratislava in the 1930s, about a clerk at a humanitarian foundation who is unjustly accused of embezzling a large sum of money.

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?