Act of Will is a 1989 mini-series directed by Don Sharp. It the third mini series based on a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel he had directed and was an early lead role for Elizabeth Hurley.
During the Lantern Festival, Princess Ningyuan’s mysterious death sparks an investigation by Li Peiyi, a skilled investigator, and Xiao Huaijin, a meticulous strategist. Their pursuit of the truth uncovers palace intrigues, complex crimes, and hidden struggles within the Tang Dynasty court.
After personal and family hardships force her to leave university, Fang Wanzhi, a determined woman from a mountain village, moves to Shenzhen. There, she and two close friends rise from factory workers to entrepreneurs, overcoming betrayals and challenges along the way.
After inheriting her father's struggling store, Wan bonds with a charming regular who offers to help, but her new friend's family have other ideas.
Two mismatched cops go undercover to bust a drug cartel, only to become entangled in a deadly truth-or-dare game when students begin dying one by one.
A skeptical doctor and a fortune teller must hide from a shadowy threat in a remote village, where danger and romance intertwine.
In 1915, Rati returns to Siam and finds connection with Thee, the heir to a wealthy and powerful family, which seeks to sabotage the relationship.
A young girl flees from her homeland to start over with her mother. But when a crime ring ruins her life, she adopts a new identity to take revenge.
An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive—and must break out of prison to find out the truth.
Villagers Liu Gaoxing and Wufu move to Xi'an to collect scrap. Facing hardships, Gaoxing's wit and optimism help them overcome challenges, find love, and inspire fellow scavengers to support each other. Despite Wufu's death, their kindness and hope endure.
The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar at the beginning of August. In the midst of the Vargas government crisis, the murder case is taken by police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man who is not well regarded by his co-workers, as the place is totally turned over to corruption.
In the fictional town of Antares, a general strike prevents seven corpses from being buried in the local cemetery. The corpses then come back to life to demand the authorities the right to be buried.
Loving, loyal and unafraid, the daughter of a wanted robber chief makes a secret friend in her father's magical and treacherous forest.
Allie Fox—a brilliant inventor and stubborn idealist—uproots his family for a dangerous quest through Mexico to flee the U.S. government and find safety.
A disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battle to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. Based on the novel by Pulitzer-winner Annie Proulx.
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.
At the height of the Cold War, newly formed NASA selects seven of the military’s best test pilots to become astronauts. Competing to be the first in space, these men achieve the extraordinary, inspiring the world to turn towards a new horizon of ambition and hope.
Saeki Shuichi was a detective, but he quit his job. He now works at a detective agency. One day, a couple asks the detective agency to find a man named Sakagami. The man killed the couple's son and served at a youth detention center. Kogure Masato is the director of the detective agency. He tells Shuichi to work on the case. Shuichi is also part of a victim's family. When he was a child, his older sister was murdered. While Shuichi watches Sakagami, the couple asks him to find some materials which will allow them to forgive Sakagami or not.
In the near future, people’s minds are connected to The Feed, giving them instant connectivity. When something or someone invades it, everyone is at risk.