Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.
The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.
Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.
Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night
Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.
A boy imprisoned for a double murder is used in a prison experiment involving placing an animal in the cells of prisoners.
Drama about a group of young people in 1933 Berlin in search of an identity find themselves drawn to dangerous movements in society.
Jonas has to stay at home on the farm and look after his seven younger siblings, because stepfather and stepmother are going to a wedding with eldest daughter Anna. But Jonas is curious about how the party goes and when it might be his turn to get married.
Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.
Television adaptation of Strindberg's play about the midsummer romance between the noblewoman and the valet.
A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.
Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes.
The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.
Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.
A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.
Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the topic of gender equality in marriage and society, for example the property rights of married women.
Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.