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- An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
- An exceptionally-adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss--the biggest opportunity of his career to date.
- In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.
- An angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven.
- A recently divorced cop adopts a police dog who lost his former companion; together they solve crimes in and around Vienna.
- Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.
- FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes undercover as a large, elderly woman to catch an escaped convict, but complications arise when he bonds with Sherry, the convict's ex-girlfriend and the woman's granddaughter.
- An insurance agent is sent by her employer to track down and help capture an art thief.
- Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assassinate international leaders at a banquet.
- Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.
- A feud develops between two air traffic controllers: one cocky and determined while the other is restrained and laidback, which inevitably affects their lives.
- An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
- A magical crab works wonders for a terrible chef's culinary skills, leading her towards the man of her dreams.
- Ex-convict Jean Valjean's pursuit of redemption and peace clashes with Javert's rigid enforcement of law. Their conflict impacts lives, including Fantine's daughter Cosette, against the backdrop of 19th-century France.
- Crime-novelist Paul Temple solves mysteries with the help of his wife Steve.
- The beyond surreal adventures of Felix The Cat and his friends set in an incredibly weird and fantastical toon world where everything is alive and only dream logic rules. Each episode has three segments.
- The adventures of a strong ginger and her two friends Tommy and Annika.
- In the year 3000 BC an illegitimate son is born to Queen Lostris and the brave warrior Tanus. Her devoted eunuch Taita, a loyal servant, takes the baby boy and places him in a basket on the Nile. Five thousand years later, during our time, famous archaeologist Duraid al Simma and his wife Royan discover Queen Lostris's grave at the same spot, with ten scrolls inside it resembling a form of diary. The seventh scroll, which contains directions to Mamose's magnificent tomb with the legendary treasure, disappears without trace. Soon afterwards the couple adopt an unusual boy who displays an almost magical urge to be close to the Nile, so they name him after the river god Hapi. It is only ten years later that Taita's secret is almost solved. Fanatical art thief Schiller is also very curious about the information, and tries to track down more with the aid of his sidekick Boris. Whe Duraid dies during a struggle for possession of the scroll, Hapi and his mother turn to Nick Harper, an old acquaintance of Duraid's. Harper, who is an archaeologist with a keen sense of adventure and also a ladies' man, decides to help. The three of them travel to Ethiopia, followed by the greedy collector and his evil sidekick Boris, in order to search for the treasure. Eventually they not only solve Taita's strange riddle but also discover the origin of little Hapi, who meets his real parents Lostris and Tanus in a magic labyrinth...
- A very long, beginning-to-end life story of an eighteenth century womanizer that is arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he is viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces.
- Two filmmakers with progressive ideas try to be inspired by the surrounding reality on an attempt to make a movie.
- Emil visit a country auction, help Lina pull out a tooth and raise his pig to do tricks.
- Pray for safe passage - when two brothers from the noble Albrizzi family fall in love with the same woman, they pledge war against one another to avenge her accidental death.
- In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxembourg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful but mute woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.
- Alisea and her brothers have been captured by Azaret, an evil wizard. Alisea escapes the castle and meets the young Prince Demian, with whom she falls in love.
- Sandokan is called by his friend Yáñez, now attached to the maharani Surama, to help them against her cousin Raska treacherous plans. Journalist lady Dora and photographer Alfred, on their side, pursue the famous rebel pirate to get an interview. They will go together through danger and adventure.
- Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
- A family of aliens flee their tyrannical home planet to come and live on Earth.
- Nonni and Manni live on Iceland with their Mother and their grandmother in the late 1850th. A friend of their father's, Harald, has to give them the information that their father died. The boys became friends of Harald, but one of the policemen in the town who loves the mother, wants to kill Harald. He has to escape from the town, and the boys want to help him with his escape.
- Follows a German boys involvement in the Hitler Youth during the pre WWII years.
- A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who were separated after their birth.
- Sam, the 12 year old son of a famous missing polar explorer, has despaired. His mother has married again and moved with him and her new husband to the wasteland of Canada. He doesn't like him, the place, and has problems finding new friends. One day he meets a wild dog which one looks like the leader of his father's sled dogs. With him and the two family dogs he plans to compete in this year's sled dog race. He is getting closer to the neighbour's daughter who is able to build the sled. But her father wants to kill all wild dogs...
- Jamal passes through his 10th birthday, and in the process of 'becoming a man', which is what this milestone means, he tries to give up childhood things, including C Bear, his teddy bear.
- March 1917. World War I is already three years in. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Germany and Sweden to St. Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, otherwise known as Lenin. Two senior officers support thenrevolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel, there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take him back. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations.
- A man who created great literature from the adventures of his own life--and the women at the heart of it. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.
- A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.
- At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry de Monfreid, a famous French adventurer living in East Africa, decides to create a company to collect pearl oysters on the shores of the Red Sea.
- 1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
- A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
- He is young and attractive, witty, strong as a bear, brimming with unusual ideas. Possessing a pronounced sense of justice, he is always in action to bring international criminals to justice: the Gorilla. He is the best agent in the French secret service. Due to his extraordinary abilities, he's only deployed on really special and explosive cases. Whether it's a matter of diamond-smuggling or computer crime, slave-trading or plane hijacks, the Gorilla is always on the spot and makes his mark through cleverness and his original personality. His missions take him all over Europe. He is at home in all European cities, and both popular and feared. His speciality is "undercover" work - penetrating criminal organisations and undermining them from the inside. A task which is as difficult as it is dangerous. Again and again, he gets himself into seemingly hopeless situations which only one man could ever get out of: the Gorilla. In spite of all this, he is not one to forget that life also has its pleansant side. He loves beautiful women and good cuisine. He is never averse to a little romantic adventure. His charm, wit and spontaneity enchant every woman he meets. Even his most fierce opponents admit openly or secretly that this "enemy" is a man of real class.
- Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
- The lives of a group of highly-gifted young physicists known as the Via Panisperna Boys, led by Enrico Fermi. One of them, Ettore Majorana, mysteriously disappeared in 1938.
- A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.
- A child chooses a German Shepherd puppy named Rex, to help him overcome the recent divorce of his parents.
- Twelve year old Edgar, nicknamed 'Sweetie' has one, all consuming passion: flowers and plants. His parents, both of them rich film producers, consider him neurotic. This irritates Sweetie intensely, and he rebels against all his parents' attempts to reeducate him. Hugues, the authoritarian father, with whom Sweetie has not been on speaking terms for some time now, has given up on his son. Sweetie's superficial mother Lolly still lets her son work in the garden of the family villa, however, under the supervision of their gardener Lucas. Everything changes when Sweetie's parents suddenly decide to adopt a five year old Peruvian orphan named Anibal. Sweetie begins by ignoring the boy as best he can, but the boy has a problem that throws Sweetie off balance: he has severe asthma attacks, and the family physician thinks they may be psychosomatic. This arouses Sweetie's protective instincts. Anibal repays Sweetie's kindness to him with love and deep admiration, but this is totally lost on the parents. While Sweetie starts wondering whether or not to kill himself so that Anibal can have his lungs, the father resorts to his old plan of sending Sweetie away to a boarding school. Sweetie and Anibal promptly run away, get picked up by the police, and end up in front of a sympathetic woman magistrate - who goes against the wishes of Sweetie's father, and allows the two boys to attend the same school.
- Clarissa Schuhmeister is sent away for a convent education - in accordance with the tradition of the time - by her widowed father. While observing his daughter's progress from afar he is successfully promoted to the rank of general - but is then suspended from duty when his more thoughtful attitude to military matters jars with the tub-thumping jingoism of his time. General Schuhmeister, who has never been able to give expression to his inmost feelings, becomes increasingly withdrawn - while Clarissa, who has learnt discipline and obedience, takes on a job as assistant to the neurologist Dr. Silberstein. Very soon she becomes indispensable to him, and Silberstein involves her increasingly in his research work. At a congress in Lucerne Clarissa meets the French teacher Léonard, and the two of them fall passionately in love. When, after long weeks hiking together in the Alps, they hear that war has broken out, Clarissa grows desperate: for the first time in her life she has experienced love and passion and given free rein to her feelings, and now Léonard has to return to his country. Clarissa becomes a nurse in a field hospital - and notices there that she is pregnant. To make her child legitimate she accepts a proposal of marriage from sham patient Gottfried Brancoric, who needs her as an excuse to avoid military service. During the years that follow she gets by on her own, with the occasional visit from Gottfried who is earning a living from black marketeering. One day she discovers that her father has been keeping letters from Léonard from her - she thought the Frenchman had forgotten her! For the first time in her life, Clarissa resists her father and makes up her own mind: together with her son, she sets off to rejoin the great love of her life.
- This was the first TV film I directed and also the first and only film with an openly homosexual Subject ... adapted from a Stefan Zweig novel. It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deeply in love with a young student in his class on English literature. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating it to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ....and it is too late... Etienne Périer.
- Over several generations, the history of French Algeria, from 1830 to 1962, is told through the saga of two families of settlers living in the region of Algiers.
- A mysterious ship has sailed into Pippi's hometown and the Captain turns out to be her father. So it's off with her friends for a wild and wonderful, wind-blown adventure on the South Seas.