Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.
A man uncovers a dangerous web of schemes and deceit when he accepts the presidency of a TV company.
After suffering a plane crash, Leo receives a blood transfusion and, some time later, discovers that he ended up contracting the AIDS virus. Desperate, he does his best to find out the identity of the bearer of the blood he received, and suffers from the prejudice of friends and people close to him.
As Boss explores his sexuality and first love, life throws him heartbreak, family chaos, and the fight to stay true to himself.
A small southern town on the sea. Cozy cafes on the promenade, home-made wine for bottling, paid fishing on boats. The city also has its own “iconic figures”: Gleb Valentinovich, a semi-legal businessman, owner of restaurants and kiosks, and Sergey Voronets, the head of the police department, who has a “percentage” for a quiet life from the same institutions. The town lives a lazy and pleasant life until a few strange deaths occur - yesterday healthy people die in a couple of hours. An epidemiologist from the capital is called into the city. Gleb and the “team” are trying to intercept and bribe him: it’s not at all in their interests to close the season. But Evgeny Levin is fundamental. However, his dedication and willingness to get into any fight, he will soon make Gleb respect himself. Gleb does not know one thing: Zhenya is the same man, because of the break with which his young wife had once left Moscow.
Ana de Mendoza y de Silva, Princess of Éboli, is accused of treason and imprisoned in 16th Century Spain.
A star-laden adaptation of Anton Myrer's sprawling 1978 novel tracing the lives of five Harvard roommates of the class of '44, following them through the next 30 years. At the center of the story is a green 1939 Packard convertible and Chris Farris, a beautiful Radcliffe girl.
A Beverly Hills socialite embarks on a love/hate relationship with a psychotic businessman who murdered her fiance and then raped and terrorized her which leads to a bizarre trial.
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.
This series is about three friends retelling their first year in college together. Chatri tries to stay in the closet due to his military general father; Oil is a rich and arrogant woman who thinks she is the best, and Tum is a charming Casanova who wants to go to the big city and meet girls. When Oil falls for Chatri, Chatri falls for Tum, and Tum falls for beautiful girls in college, drama and comedy unfolds
When dozens of babies in Corby are born with disabilities, their mothers embark on a battle to hold those responsible to account.
Successful insurance salesman Rob Marshall, his bright and devoted wife Maria, and their three sons are the perfect American family. Then the nightmare begins. One night, Rob is attacked and Maria is shot dead. At first, Rob seems the a grieving widower. But, as incriminating secrets come out, he must prove his innocence before the judicial system-- and the horrified suspicions of his sons.
It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'The Edwardians' explores the lives of and events in the lives of many who helped define the era, the "Belle Epoque".
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room.
The Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was produced by American cable channel TNT and directed by Uli Edel.
Kingdom is a British television series created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance.
The Company tells the thrilling story of Cold War CIA agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy – and each other – in an internecine battle within the Company itself.