Uncle Vanya (1957)

人間にペットとして飼われているが、TV番組のヒーローに憧れるカメレオン。車で飼い主と移動中に事故に遭い、入っていた水槽ごと砂漠に放り出されてしまう。初めて広い世界に出たカメレオンは途方に暮れるが、寂れた荒野の町“ダートタウン”にさまよい着く。酒場で町の住人たちにランゴと名乗ったカメレオンは、でたらめな武勇伝を語った結果、町の保安官に任命されてしまう。その頃、町は深刻な水不足に見舞われていた。

原作はルイス・R・フォスター（Lewis R. Foster）の『ミネソタから来た紳士』。 主人公スミスは田舎のボーイスカウトのリーダーだったが、死亡した上院議員の代わりに、政界に担ぎ出される。スミスはそこで政治の腐敗と単身対決することになる。

1950年代のパリ。場末の劇場やバーで手品を披露していた老手品師のタチシェフは、スコットランドの離島にやって来る。この辺ぴな田舎ではタチシェフの芸もまだまだ歓迎され、バーで出会った少女アリスはタチシェフを“魔法使い”だと信じるように。そして島を離れるタチシェフについてきたアリスに、彼もまた生き別れた娘の面影を見るようになり……。

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 1899 play "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.

An unemployed ex-office worker searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further fluctuates when a man whom she met in a restaurant and started an affair with is called to go to India for an assignment. The final straw occurs when she is evicted and moves into a sleazy hotel. She then starts seeking casual sex in unorthodox locations just to have human contact.

An older woman gets involved with her young neighbor.

Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm.

Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.

Kairat, a teacher of mathematics, accidentally meets Aslar, along with whom he studied in university. Askar invites him to his home, where Kairat becomes acquainted with Togzhan, the wife of Askar. And he falls in love with her. Though this love was mutual, they couldn't step over the obstacles already made by their lives. Their emotions delayed. The script is based on the novel by Chekhov's About Love, Gooseberry.

A man struggling to support his family on the meager wages of his menial job has always dreamed of running his own business. He transforms an old Cadillac into a taxi and faces many challenges trying to run his own taxi services. The interesting people he meets while driving around the city adds to the fun and excitement.

Young radical Riccardo returns home after hiding out in South America for years, only to find out that he has no "home" left: his former comrades in arms have now either bourgeoisified or turned to drugs, and all they fought for seems to have set the stage for near-anarchy.

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

Country girl Margit sits for the artist Sándor, from Budapest. She is fascinated and charmed by him, and agrees to accompany him to the capital, so he can complete the painting there. Disillusionment sets in, however, when Sándor wins a prize with the finished portrait and loses interest in her. Margit recognizes that her true happiness lies at home, with Pista, her faithful lover.

A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.

Disillusioned with his wealthy friends, a man pretends to be poor and goes to live in the slums where he falls in love with a burglar's sister.

大学教授のジョンは妻子と共に幸せな日々を過ごしていたが、ある日妻のララが殺人の容疑で逮捕される。それから3年、ジョンは妻の無実を証明するため懸命に奔走していたが、覆ることなく刑が確定してしまう。絶望した妻が獄中で自殺を図ったことを知り、彼は自らの手で妻を取り戻そうと決断する。

2092年、化学の進歩で不死が可能となった世界で、118歳のニモは唯一の命に限りある人間だった。ニモは記憶をたどり昔のことを思い出す。かつて9歳の少年だったニモの人生は、母親について行くか父の元に残るかの選択によって決まったのだった。

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.