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- A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.
- 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.
- 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.
- The first series depicts the adventures of the famous gentleman burglar in the 1930s and the second, in the 1940s.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Story of crimes, love and high society scandals.
- 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.
- After Clement Ader's exploit, a few of eccentric Frenchmen get obsessed by making a dream become a reality - to fly.
- 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.
- A wealthy widow in her forties wants to end a relationship with her younger lover, who isn't ready to let go.
- A sculptor, an enemy of modern art, sets an example. He sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue.
- 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.
- 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.
- Elsie loves aspiring singer Toni who with his songwriter friend Edi is struggling to succeed in the tough music industry. As no breakthrough is in sight Elsie has to choose between poor Toni and rich heir Stefan, her childhood companion.
- 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.
- The human flight is now a reality. The French pioneers of aviation are then obsessed by establishing records by flying higher, faster and farther.
- 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.
- Lisa is going to Munich in the night train, to start training for a career in fashion; Martin is a young artist. They talk, and romance is in the air. Arriving at Munich station they agree to meet later that day in Marienplatz, the central square. Comes the time, and the square is full of thousands of people: they didn't realise that today is Fasching, the Bavarian carnival. They miss one another, in the crowd, and all seems lost. They try to trace each, with only small scraps of information, and at first their efforts seem to make things worse, in a series of near misses when they are close to meeting up.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- It's all about the value of a beautiful thoroughbred hunting dog and his loyalty. The animal has to choose between love and duty. Love, as always, pervails.
- Remake in color and Scope of a 30s German operetta film, about romance in the easy going court of Munich in the 1850s.
- At midnight in the museum of transportation, the spirits of different conveyances throughout time gather to welcome a new member. The spirit of salon car E 417 tells tales of his long history involving romances and intrigues. He knows the secrets of princes and vagabonds, of baronesses and street girls. In particular, he knows the story of that very museum's tour guide and the secret the man carries with him.
- Nazi propaganda film showing the development of the German navy's submarine fleet.
- Nazi propaganda film about a German laborer named Keith who works in a sawmill in Poland near the German border in 1939. When local anti-German sentiment leads to lynchings, lovely Anna hides Keith in her tavern.
- Bavarian comedy about an enterprising worker who convinces a wealthy sausage maker to name him head of production, after there are complaints about the quality of the meat.
- A Nordic revolutionary's plans to murder the president go awry when he falls in love with the man's daughter.
- 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.
- A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. Once he is married to her, he comes to love her passionately and cannot bear the thought of losing her. In an effort to save her life, he spends all their money, but to no avail. His wife dies and he is once again penniless. However, he is a changed man.
- A Nordic fishermen's village surrounded by the raging sea. This is were fisherman Haldor (Wilhelm Borchert) is living. His marriage with the proud Salvör (Heidemarie Hatheyer) is going to be impend. While on the sea in a storm, he is being cast upon an island. There he falls in love with the farmer's girl Maria (Ingrid Andree). When Haldor learns, that Maria is pregnant, he takes her with him back home. Salvör who was still waiting, hates him for that and marries a rich merchant. Twenty years later Haldor's daughter Gunna and Salvör's son Ragnar, are falling in love with each other. And only now Haldor learns from Salvör that Ragnar is his son.
- 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.
- 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.