
04 Nov 1972

The Rimers of Eldritch
Lanford Wilson's prize-winning drama about life in a played-out coal town in the Midwest. Against the background of a murder trial, the people recall their lives.
Helena loves the arrogant Bertram, and when she cures the King of France of his sickness, she claims Bertram as her reward. But her new husband, flying from Helena to join the wars, attaches two obstructive conditions to their marriage - conditions he is sure will never be met. Featuring Olivier-award winning actress Janie Dee as the Countess of Roussillon.
Helena
Colin Hurley
Countess of Roussillon
Lafeu
Bertram
King of France
Parolles
Diana
Widow
Duke of Florence / Rinaldo / Gentleman / Second Soldier
04 Nov 1972
Lanford Wilson's prize-winning drama about life in a played-out coal town in the Midwest. Against the background of a murder trial, the people recall their lives.
25 Nov 2020
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
13 Jan 1977
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08 Jul 1977
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01 Sep 1961
Olga Valentová, whose father was a communist resistance fighter and died during the occupation, works in the export department of Tatrovka. The young woman recapitulates her life and returns to her father's ideals.
26 Dec 1996
Frank Groothof tells and sings the story of Ulysses' homecoming. He is accompanied musically by the saxphone ensemble Sax et Plus. The Dutch peninsula of Schiermonnikoog forms the backdrop for the story, in which Groothof himself plays almost all carachters.
15 Jun 2005
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10 Oct 2003
Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the dramatist Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik's company. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency ward where Erik's wife Ann works as a doctor. These incident is the start of the story about how four people's lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.
15 Jun 1971
TV adaptation of Lesya Ukrainka's drama, which interprets the plot of Don Juan from a feminist point of view.
04 Nov 2017
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01 Jan 1980
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14 May 2019
America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business. But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare.
01 Jan 1967
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28 Dec 1980
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04 Dec 2025
Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.
10 Jul 1928
Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
03 Apr 1942
In 1911, Stáňa Járský was giving music lessons to little Jiřina Horníková and fell passionately in love with his pupil's mother. The evening before he left for his studies, Mrs. Helena succumbed to him. Nine years later, engineer Járský met the grown-up Jiřina in Prague - and love met him again. However, this time he was not lucky either, the girl had to save the family factory with a marriage of convenience. After another nineteen years, CEO Járský returns home after a long stay abroad. His hair is graying, but he is still charming and elegant. How will his meeting with young Helenka, the granddaughter and daughter of his former loves, turn out?
18 Oct 1963
Jan Werich, as the Spanish viceroy in Lima, Peru, at the end of the eighteenth century, is not only afflicted with gout but also doubts about the fidelity of his mistress, an actress of the local theatre, with whom he intends to settle his scores very firmly...
06 Oct 2023
Two self-obsessed businessmen discover they're long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents.
02 Mar 1982
Physics professor Sophie and divorce lawyer Stefan have been living together as a couple for 15 years. Sophie would like to get married, but because of Stefan's experience with his clients, he doesn't believe in long, happy marriages. The two make a bet: If Sophie shows him a truly happy couple that has been married for more than five years, he will marry her.