Henry is hired to authenticate and purchase a long lost and very valuable recipe book. Soon Henry and Maggie find themselves in a murder mystery where secrets hidden within a treasured book have dire consequences for all who own it.
This National Theatre Production was filmed for the National Theatre Archive in November 2022. ‘To be or not to be…’ Hamlet’s dad is dead. His uncle has taken over the kingdom and married Hamlet’s mum. The whole world feels like it’s turned upside down. A ghostly encounter reveals a dreadful deed has been done. Should Hamlet take revenge? ‘That is the question.’ Join us for this energetic and engaging retelling of Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedy.
Based on the real story of Kurtz Dietzmann who was deployed on the Eastern front during WW2.
An FBI agent rebelliously seeks revenge on his wife's killer.
Thobile persevered without giving up, she persisted in her relationship, and her daughter wholeheartedly embraced her viewpoint throughout.
The Marcomb County Police Department obtains footage of several troubled teenage girls documenting violent and disturbing behaviors. This footage is being released to general audiences for viewing as a public service. Note to audiences, this is reality at it's most sincere and disturbing. Criminal cases are pending on several of the seen individuals in the film.
In an isolated religious community, the desperation of a pregnant woman to escape her abusive domestic condition leads her to enlist a male friend to accuse her of infidelity. She hopes being falsely charged by a man will be taken as truth in the trial of the Elders. To find her guilty of this crime would mean excommunication into the vast unknown outside their gates. A risk Susanna is willing to take in order to be free.
Dika, who had left his hometown for seven years, had returned home to commemorate the fourty days of his father's death. But suddenly he is asked to be a lecturer and imam for Friday prayers as his father often did in the past by his father's acquaintance who is a member of the mosque's prosperity council. Dika, who had forgotten his father and felt unloved by him, tried to get his mother to leave his hometown and the house where his mother and father had lived. However, at the last moment, Dika can again remember the expression of love from his father.
Ace car racer RV and his wife have the world at their feet. But he has an accident and his world is turned upside down. Can he reclaim his lost glory?
Love and politics collide when modern day individuals working as theatre artists in fall in love while making a play about love. They realize that it's the social structure that determines their values and thoughts, and for their love to succeed, they have to go against it.
A depressed Jester sets out across plague-ridden England to rescue the Queen’s nephew and prove he is more than a fool.
A doctor works in a clinic in a village run by his sister's father-in-law. When he meets a villager, he realises that he and his gang had ragged and murdered his son at the medical college's hostel.
Follows two individuals on a turbulent journey navigating addiction and processing bittersweet nostalgia.
Minden
A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.
Javier leaves work after a hard night's work, his body tired and his mind still spinning with worry and exhaustion. The walk home is a long one, but he takes advantage of it to talk to his mother, as he usually does whenever he has a free moment. They talk about how he did at work, about simple things, about the family and about what they have to do in the next few days.
A young man runs to try to get on the bus, he can't catch it so he has to wait for the next one; while he waits a girl accompanies him at the bus stop.
A mysterious figure pulls time backward and a suicide is undone. What was broken is made whole, what was wounded is healed, and lives are restored. Having been pulled backward through time and made a witness to their own death along with all it caused, this person who gave up their life is forced to confront the hate they feel for themselves and the love they feel for their family. A fantasy story about depression, addiction, and the fragile hope of redemption. It's a symbolic tour of how our darkness, like a parasite, moves from host to host. It's a puzzle box with crumbs of detail and meaning that the observant viewer can sew together to deduce what more story there is outside of the frame. It’s an ambigram that unfolds both forward and backward—a fractured dream that, in the end, the viewer pieces together alongside the witness. The song—written, performed, and produced by Kai Straw—and the video—written, edited, and shot by him—comes together as a uniquely singular vision.
To fulfill his grandmother's last wish, Farhan makes a new funeral bier (gahvara) to take her body to the burial ground. But the events that happen thereafter change Farhan's life and perspective forever.
Two brothers clear the air and have a bonding conversation on the past.