Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.
Seven Crosses in a Notebook
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.
A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.
About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.
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.
A boy imprisoned for a double murder is used in a prison experiment involving placing an animal in the cells of prisoners.
Dennis feels he's had enough of the cozy middle-class life in the suburbia. Before the middle-age (and John Denver's records) puts him down he wants to break away from everything. Unfortunately his wife Pauline and their friends William and Jane don't make it easy for him. To make matters worse, there seems to be some young punks vandalizing the neighborhood, but it's definitely not the ones everyone seem to believe it is.
When the people of a small corrupt town find out a secret inspector will be arriving shortly they panic, something which a lazy civil servant takes full advantage of and lets them believe that he is that inspector.
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.
Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.
The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.
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.
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.