The Bastard (1978)

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.

The story of Sister Pascalina Lehnert, who was the personal confidant and secretary to Pope Pius XII for forty years, when he was the papal nuncio in Germany, and then for his whole pontificate. The Pope had great confidence in her wisdom, energy, and loyalty, and she became known as "the most powerful woman in the history of the Vatican."

This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)

his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.

TV miniseries of two episodes. Carla (Lucía Ramos), Sara (Paloma Bloyd) and Adriana (Aura Garrido) enjoy a birthday party without knowing it, hidden in a nearby pine forest, a mysterious young man with binoculars observes everything that happens during the evening, especially the making the three girls, who end up away from the group into the forest. Kidnapped by a dangerous international organization composed of unscrupulous men and veterans of the war in the Balkans linked to a prostitution ring, the three young girls will live the worst nightmare of his life.

Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 1777 as the American War of Independence rages, Dick Dudgeon returns to the family he revolted against years ago. But his life is about to take another twist as the british arrive and seem set on an execution...

Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.

Benjamin Martin é um veterano de guerra que renunciou às armas e decidiu viver em paz com sua família. Mas, quando os ingleses trazerem a Guerra da Independência até o seu quintal, Benjamin não vê outra saída a não ser pegar nas armas novamente, desta vez acompanhado de seu filho idealista, liderando uma rebelião contra o implacável e equipado exército britânico. No processo, ele descobre que só pode proteger sua família lutando pela liberdade da jovem nação.

The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.

A great Empire, once famous for its enlightened traditions, is taken over by a ruthless political establishment. Religious fundamentalists and national separatists are tearing at the fabric of its liberal society. Under the influence of his conservative advisors, the Emperor fails to initiate the reforms that could save the Empire from annihilation. One man alone can avert the cataclysm to come. The year is 1888 and the 600-year-old Empire of Austria-Hungary is at a cross-road of history. Crown-Prince Rudolf, son of fabled Empress Sisi, the most beautiful woman of her time, is the man with the vision and the ability to lead his Empire into the 20th century. Yet his enemies, the all-powerful Prime Minister first and foremost, scheme to isolate Rudolf from his father and from access to power. Against the backdrop of one of the most dangerous, exciting and colorful periods in history, at the dawn of the modern age...

This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...

Die deutsche Fotojournalistin Katharina macht eine Reportage auf einer texanischen Ranch. Dabei verliebt sie sich - trotz aller Gegensätze - in den Chef-Cowboy. Und er sich in sie. Aber hat die Liebe eine Chance?

Na virada do século na Ilha Príncipe Edward, Matthew Cuthbert e sua irmã Marilla decidem adotar um menino órfão como ajuda para sua fazenda. Mas eles tomam um susto inesperado quando, por um erro, chega uma garota: Anne Shirley. Anne é uma sonhadora com um ponto de vista incomum, longe do jeito pragmático de Marilla, que acaba concordando em manter a Anne. Na TV passou em 2 episódios. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

1998: Um homem foge pelo deserto de Negev. Sem saída, seus perseguidores, homens da igreja, o capturam e o executam. Em munique, nos dias de hoje, um pesquisador especializado na bíblia morre em misteriosas circunstâncias. Sua filha Johanna é uma jovem policial que descobre que seu pai deixou para trás um manuscrito misterioso contendo profecias amaldiçoadas. Quando essas previsões começam a se tornar verdadeiras, Johanna - com a ajuda de Simon, um especialista em textos religiosos, começa a seguir uma série de pistas. Ela finalmente descobre o que seu pai havia encontrado em segredo: ele estava tentando decifrar um código secreto, escondido há milhares de anos, e queria alertar a humanidade sobre os riscos decorrentes de forças obscuras. Sua tentativa de decifrar tais códigos conduzem Johanna e Simon para Israel e depois para a França, diretamente para as mãos de seus inimigos, uma ordem religiosa que vem tentando há séculos ganhar o controle do Vaticano e dominar a raça humana.

A BBC miniseries about Nigel Marvin's quest to bring the extinct dinosaurs through time to Prehistoric Park.