An epic animation depicting the conquest of Istanbul, with ships walking on mountains, cannons piercing through walls, and the call to prayer echoing from Hagia Sophia, demonstrating how important Istanbul is to the Islamic world.
Věra and Vladimír were a childless married couple. They were united by love, work, and the desire to have a child. When Vladimír suddenly dies at the age of 45, Věra finds herself at rock bottom. Neither her mother's nor her sister's consolation helps. Neither does feeding the cats in the yard behind the house. But the main blow is yet to come for Věra: it comes in the form of payment slips she finds among her husband's belongings, confirming regular payments to an unknown woman! Věra turns to a family friend, Pepa, her husband's colleague from the research institute. While drunk, he reveals that her husband has been having an affair with another woman and has a child with her. Věra is shocked and offended. She had wanted a child so badly, and Vladimír ended up conceiving one with a complete stranger. Věra sets out to find this unknown woman. She wants to know what makes her so amazing that she captivated her husband...
Six characters are all interested in money. The relationship between two spouses, depicted with subtle irony. The main character is Zdeněk, a professor of botany who is unable to calculate his bill at a restaurant, and waiters look forward to seeing him from afar. He is the ideal target for con artists. His wife Sára, with whom he no longer lives but maintains a very friendly relationship, takes care of his taxes. Zdeněk has a rather attractive gardening show on television. In order not to lose out, Sára invented Miss Flintová, to whose account she sends generous sums for alleged PR services. The enterprising tax advisor extended Miss Flintová's activities to her other clients as well. It is a million-dollar fraud.No wonder the tax office is taking an interest in Miss Flint. They are searching for her diligently. Even the surprised and indignant honest man Zdeněk learns of the existence of the non-existent Miss Flint. Where to conjure up Miss Flint all of a sudden?
The heroine of the story Struck by Lightning is a divorced teacher with grown-up children. She has been living alone for a long time, finding solace at her brother's grave in the cemetery. Years ago, he was killed by lightning somewhere in the mountains, at a mountain hut. And it is here, in the intimacy of the family grave, that Jana is approached by an unknown young man. He offers her companionship and help. Jana is afraid of him at first, but when he shows her a winding scar under his shirt, which proves beyond doubt that he, like her brother, was struck by lightning but survived, Jana believes him...
On New Year's Eve 2007-2008, young Masha and Nastya want to become show business stars. While watching TV, they magically find themselves in the looking glass of the Kingdom of Show Business. The Kingdom hosts the “Crooked Vision” competition, the main event of which is King Yagupop. The producer and director of the competition ask Queen Anidag and the kite Pilifa to send out invitations to the participating countries, but they ignore the request because they themselves want to participate in the competition. Masha and Nastya become witnesses to the deception, which is why they are forced to try to get into the competition themselves.
The wife of the goalkeeper of the local water polo team, Tavernari, is found dead in her apartment. Walter Cherubini, who recently met them for work reasons, thinks that the husband is the culprit.
1934. Philippe falls in love with Odile, a beautiful stranger, and decides to marry her, against the will of his parents. They would have preferred a more bourgeois bride, ideally from their own milieu: the paper industry in Angoulême. Isabelle, for instance, whom they have known since she was a child, would have been the perfect match. But Philippe sticks to his choice and marries Odile. At first the newly-weds are passionately in love, and the whole family looks forward to the birth of an heir for the Marcenat family. But in vain. Instead, Odile neglects her marriage and devotes herself to drawing, a gift she inherited from her father. Or is her rekindled interest in art classes more the result of her encounter with the charming but mysterious artist François Crozant? Philippe sense that he's losing his wife and becomes madly jealous of François. Meanwhile Isabelle, who's secretly in love with Philippe, is just waiting for the right moment.
In 700 Sundays, legendary comedian and actor Billy Crystal tells the stories of his youth, growing up in the jazz world of Manhattan, his teenage years, and finally adulthood. The Tony Award-winning show is a funny and poignant exploration of family and fate, loving and loss.
In order to try to bring together his bickering family, a single father takes his three rebellious teenagers on a vacation trip to the Bahamas. They inadvertently wind up in the Bermuda Triangle, where they are whisked through a time portal and brought to the mythical island of Atlantis. There they are drawn into a fantastical conflict between the peace-loving population and a would-be tyrant determined to take over the island. In their desperate attempts to return home they encounter mythical creatures, evil magicians, and ancient powers.
The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.
A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is Condemned".
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
In 1939, after barely escaping the Nazis, a Gypsy family returns to Switzerland only to be torn apart by racial persecution in the benign guise of children's welfare. This fictionalized story of Jana, an eight-year-old Gypsy girl snatched from her parents and consigned to a life of orphanages and bleak foster homes, is based on a little-known chapter of Swiss history: From 1926 to 1972, the state-supported Pro Juventute, a children's aid foundation, forcibly removed some 700 Gypsy children from their families, in order to sever the ties with their culture and assimilate them to a "better way of life." The underlying aim was to preempt a new generation's caravans from following their nomadic traditions along Switzerland's country lanes.
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
See a man living among wolves as the National Geographic Channel presents the unique story of maverick researcher named Shaun Ellis who raises abandoned wolf cubs and teaches them by example how to survive in the wild. In A Man Among Wolves, see how Shaun has given up everything to take a daring and unorthodox approach to understanding wolves' every move - living and behaving like them, howling, licking and snarling like them, even eating carcass meat like them.
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic, the brave female citizens decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet. (German version of the French film La Kermesse héroïque, 1935.)
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.