Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.
The movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.
The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
Based upon the famous novel by H.G.Wells. A poor scientist named Griffin discovers a way to make things invisible. Since he has no money to continue his research, he decides to perform his only experiment on himself. After becoming invisible, Griffin has a lot of trouble trying to conceal this from other people.
Romantic love story of Russian physician Gusev and Japanese woman Keiko takes place in time of fighting of Russian and Japanese scientists against poliomyelitis epidemic broken out in Japan in 1959.
The daughter of a sailor who died at sea, she lives in a port city with her mother. The shipowner threatens to kick them out of the house if they don't pay for six months or if she doesn't marry him. The handsome sailor and rebel appears in the city, and makes her fall in love with him. Shipowner finds out about this. When the police commissioner shows him the photograph of the rebel sent, he recognizes the sailor, who got a job with him on a ship on which weapons are transported under the guise of oranges.
With the help of observation, the ability to think logically, and intuition, the main characters reveal the most complicated cases ...
Pages of the life of the Ukrainian composer, folklorist Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko (1842-1912), the founder of the national school of composers. His musical stage works (the operas Natalka Poltavka, Taras Bulba, Aeneid, the vocal cycle Music to the Kobzar) laid the foundations of Ukrainian opera art.
The film is based on real historical facts of the First World War. The action takes place in Galicia. Metropolitan Andrey, the head of the Uniate Church, who wants to permanently link Western Ukraine with the Austrian crown, assigns Roman, a young cornet of the Austrian army, to guard the archives at St. George's Cathedral. But Roman, having familiarized himself with the contents of some materials, is going to make secret documents public...
A classic mystery story based on the famous novel by Agatha Christie.
Two engineers being friends have a competition in a work and in a private life.
A poor Chilean Joaquin Murrieta decides to move to California in gold searches. On his way he meets a beautiful girl who becomes his wife. But their happiness is short. Life of the gold diggers is cruel... After his wife dies Joaquin takes up arms to revenge.
A detachment of Red Army soldiers is ambushed, from where only the boy can escape.
Homeless, all thrown Mephistopheles is suffering from idleness and boredom. In a market where you can buy everything - from gralic to books on Russian history, he manages to find the soul of a ballet dancer.
Vanina Vanini is a Roman aristocrat, “a black-haired girl with a fiery gaze,” who despises the timid and insignificant-hearted young people of her circle, but selflessly fell in love with the young Carbonari, whose courage and willingness to die for the liberation of Italy from the Austrians corresponds to her passion and pride. Faced with the need to make a sacrifice to duty, Vanina and Pietro, like the characters in classic literature, must choose between loyalty to their homeland and loyalty to their feelings, and this is the choice of fate. Vanina chooses love; In order to save Pietro, she betrays to the police the remaining members of the Venta he leads.
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