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- An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.
- To marry Princess Jana, Captain Sindbad must battle deadly obstacles and fight El Kerim, the evil ruler who also wants to marry the princess.
- A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.
- A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being Hitler's minister for war production.
- The first series depicts the adventures of the famous gentleman burglar in the 1930s and the second, in the 1940s.
- A high ranking Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor Blaise Meredith (Sir John Mills), finds out he has terminal cancer. His faith is tested when faced with imminent death. At the same time, he is asked to travel to a remote village in the south of Italy to investigate a mysterious individual, Giacomo Nerone (Leigh Lawson), who has been named as a possible "saint" because he is said to have performed miracles. Before the Roman Catholic Church proclaims him to be a saint, someone has to play the "devil's advocate", investigate his life and make a case why he should not be a saint. Monsignor Meredith begins his investigations by talking to several people who have met him. He discovers his real name was "James Black". He was a British soldier who had become detached from the British Army (during World War II) and was hiding in this village in war-torn Italy. He began a relationship with a local woman.
- Young Rémi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famous opera singer, but became destitute after a tragic love affair. Ever since that time he has been a traveling showman, touring the country with three dogs and a monkey. Rémi is given a warm welcome by the strange troupe, and actually learns how to read and write. On a houseboat Rémi meets Johanna von Straussberg, a melancholy German woman, whom he cheers up with his jokes. She wants him to stay with her, but Vitalis is eager to keep Rémi to himself. The troupe thus continues on its way, unaware that Johanna is actually Rémi's mother. Johanna's evil brother-in-law Georg is all to well aware of the truth, however. After his brother's death he had little Rémi abandoned in order to marry Johanna and inherit her fortune. He now has Rémi followed by his sidekick Charles. Before Rémi manages to outwit these opponents and finally return to his mother he goes through a whole host of adventures: he has to face the brutal Garofoli, who forces children to beg and he dodges several attempts on his life. On the positive side he falls in love with Charles's niece Lisa, and also becomes firm friends with a young musical prodigy named Mattia. When everything has finally turned out for the best, and the evil Georg has been killed by Vitalis after a fight, the happy end seems perfect # but Vitalis dies from his injuries.
- In 1865, Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as a mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group is attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and should flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
- At the end of the nineteenth century, Russia, Prince Nekhlyudov, on the verge of contracting a marriage of convenience, leads a superficial and mundane life. He is appointed juror in the trial of a woman in whom he recognizes Katyusha, a woman he once seduced and abandoned pregnant.
- Businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
- Diverse adaptations of the master of Gothic fantasy by great directors. In late 19th Century New England, love stories are often evil. Victims are confronted with vengeful specters or their own delusions, fruits of their psychotic madness.
- Story of crimes, love and high society scandals.
- After Clement Ader's exploit, a few of eccentric Frenchmen get obsessed by making a dream become a reality - to fly.
- A wealthy widow in her forties wants to end a relationship with her younger lover, who isn't ready to let go.
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
- Dramatized history of the foundation of the famous Vienna Boys Choir, which coincides with some of the life of the classic Austrian composer Josef Haydn.
- Marek and Celia Dawidowicz are Jewish Poles, who live with their son, Kuba, and nine-year-old daughter, Janian, in Kalisch. As war approaches, the family moves to Warsaw, and Marek and Kuba go off to fight. Marek tries to get his wife to flee to the Russian zone, but she refuses, so Marek returns, and the family members, including her grandparents, are eventually packed off to the Ghetto. Just before the Ghetto uprising in 1943, Marek has Janian smuggled out. First, she lives with Frau Grabowska and her husband. (Frau Grabowska, though an Aryan, had once been Marek's girlfriend.) Next, using false papers, Janian is boarded in a monastery school. And when the Gestapo start sniffing around, she is transferred to another one. Having made it to the end of the war, however, bad news awaits her. Only one other family member has survived.
- A wayward young woman running from her past is reunited with her sister after they became separated during the war. While she worked on the streets, the sister established a professional career as a psychologist.
- Mandrin, a brigand from a province in southeastern France, is at the head of a band of thieves who rob the tax officers of King Louis XV and distribute the money to the poor. Inspiring revolt, he quickly takes the lead of an imposing army.
- Berlin 1920: Die seit sieben Jahren verheiratete Anwaltsgattin Evelyne Droste (Claude Jade) verliebt sich in den Amerikaner Frank Davis (Barry Stokes) und folgt ihm heimlich für ein Wochenende nach Paris. Damit setzt Evelyne ihre bürgerliche Existenz aufs Spiel. Nach dem Roman von Vicki Baum.
- The secret drawer - the series. Colette, a woman who has just suddenly lost her third husband in a plane crash, discovers that he had contracted a large debt without her knowing it. Colette must then investigate who her husband really was.
- Love story of a girl, secretary to a Russian news agency, and an American journalist, thwarted by a wall of difficulties that has been erected by the girl's superior, a Russian major.
- During maneuvers a submarine collides with a surface vessel and drops to the ocean floor. The crew have thirty hours worth of air to get it back to the surface.
- In each adventure of this anthology series, a great detective, hero of international crime novels, leads the investigation in his own famous way: Nick Carter, Sherlock Holmes, Auguste Dupin, Slim Callaghan, Mr. Lecoq, Inspector Wens, etc.
- Old scholar realizes he has wasted his life in vain, trying to find a deeper meaning of life. Sells his soul to devil to get a second chance at life.
- A shoemaker has delusions of grandeur when he inherits from a baron whose life he saved.He prevents his daughter from seeing a mere carpenter, abandons humble old friends, and shows poor judgment by falling for a couple of poseurs.
- A valet tries to uphold the principles of the old aristocracy he serves, a bit difficult when his master the Earl falls for a sketchy lady while the son gets a commoner woman pregnant and then runs off to the Middle East.
- Peter asks Baron Vermehren, a renowned astrologer, for the hand of his daughter Julia. The baron claims that the stars allow the match only after Peter steals a large sum of money. Honest Peter desperately sets out to commit the crime.
- Anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda film that "shows" how Jewish textile company owners are sabotaging the German linen industry by buying linen from Ireland instead of having it produced in "the Fatherland".
- The German heir to a Munich auto plant is held in Chicago on a murder rap and is only able to uncover the real killer by escaping from American justice ,and returning to his Fatherland.
- Comedy about a young man whose marriage to a young lady is opposed by his three conservative, stuffy uncles.
- When World War I is declared, the French pioneers of aviation are enrolled, and they try to renew the defense force with the spirit of chivalry.
- Axel convinces Bum that Bum is stranded and suggests that he puts his soul into a box and sells it to a pawnbroker. And really, Bum's life changes...
- The businessman Bernhard Fredersen, who has been blinded by an eye disease, shuts down his long-established company in Hamburg and moves to Pretoria to spend his retirement years with his wife Agnes. While on the journey, Agnes is seen by the treacherous Eugen Schliebach, who knows, that she once had an affair with his late boss. Schliebach wants to blackmail Agnes to become his mistress and when she refuses to do so, he goes to Fredersen tells him everything.
- Remake in color and Scope of a 30s German operetta film, about romance in the easy going court of Munich in the 1850s.
- A dachshund plays destiny at the right moment by leading a woman to a hopelessly talented writer.