Claudio Merlini
In Rome in the thirties lives Nito Valdi, a difficult boy just out of the reformatory, who works for a local boss together with his friend Tony. The meeting with the beautiful Carmen will take Nito's life to an unexpected turn: after the loss of his greatest friend, with the arrival of fascism Valdi approaches the Blackshirts, while he becomes Carmen's worst nightmare. Nito is obsessed with her and wants her at any cost. But Carmen is expecting a child with Giancarlo, scion of one of the most prominent families in Rome: the Fontamaras. The story of Carmen and Nito, who turns out to be a Nazi psychopath, is intertwined with that of the Fontamaras, who have just discovered that they have Jewish origins and therefore must leave Italy to avoid falling victim to those like Valdi.
Matheus Leitão's parents were arrested and tortured during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Throughout his childhood and adolescence, this story has become his obsession. Forty-two years later, the respected journalist decides that it is time to find the informant and the Military personnel involved in the arrest of his parents. Will he be able to forgive them?
An in-depth cultural experience travel talk show. They care about human nature, explore the unknown, and export knowledge; they inspire cognition, transfer energy, and ignite the soul with the truth of their temperament, the joy of thinking, and the beauty of language.
Rags to Riches is an American musical comedy drama series that was broadcast on NBC for two seasons from 1987 to 1988. Set in the 1960s, the series tells the story of Nick Foley, a self-made millionaire who adopts five orphan girls. Each episode included music videos of hit songs from the era sung by the cast integrated into the plot.
Lame Ducks is a British television sitcom made by the BBC in 1984 and written by Peter J. Hammond. In one of the more dark and surreal plotlines, it starred John Duttine as Brian Drake, a man who, when suffering a serious injury after being hit by a truck, can no longer work and decides to head off to live as a hermit. As he goes along, he is joined by various other outcasts, including a woman called Angie. Later, a private detective called Ansell, hired by Drake's wife, locates the group, but as an outcast himself, decides to join them. The show ran for two series.
999 is a British docudrama television series presented by Michael Buerk, that premiered in 1992 on BBC One and ran until 2003. The series got its name from the emergency telephone number used in the United Kingdom. In the first series, each episode included two reconstructions of real emergencies, using actors and occasionally Buerk himself, as well as some of the real people involved in the emergency. By the second series, episodes of 999 included more reconstructions. While recreating an accident for an episode in 1993, veteran stuntman Tip Tipping was killed in a parachuting accident. In 2002, it was announced that the series had been cancelled.
Luo Si Yi seeks out the obligatory services of Lily, a local fortune teller, but when she receives her fortune she’s unwilling to accept the mystical decree that she’s doomed to be a spinster for life. Si Yi wagers that she’ll get married within a year, and if she wins, Lily must pole dance at her wedding. But should Si Yi fail, she’ll truly make a fortune teller out of Lily: Si Yi will pay her one million dollars. Gussied up for the dating circuit, Si Yi soon finds she’s got a challenge in balancing romance with the demands of her boss Gao Cheng Kuan. Is Cheng Kuang just another cosmic obstacle for Si Yi to overcome, or a blessing in disguise?
Half-Life: Full Life Consequences is a 4-episode Machinima series animated within the video game Garry's Mod and published on the video sharing website YouTube. Based on a fan fiction work of the same name, the series follows the exploits of the character "John Freeman," the unknown brother of Gordon Freeman from the Half-Life video game series.
Set during the reign of King Phrachaoyuhua Borommakot in the second quarter of the eighteenth century when art, literature, and learning flourished, it takes viewers through the fall of Ayutthaya nine years after his death to the liberation of Siam from Burmese occupation during the reign of Taksin the Great, who established the city of Thonburi as the new capital in 1767. The story is told through the attitudes of four present day characters and their past incarnations.
The Aztecs ruled one of the most powerful civilisations ever seen in the Americas. They were ruthless warriors and ingenious engineers, who conquered a huge territory and built towering pyramids and ambitious civil engineering projects using manpower alone. But after just 200 years their vast empire was wiped out by Spanish invaders, and their cities and monuments were destroyed. Today many of the Aztecs’ secrets lie buried underneath Mexico City. Now archaeologists are digging deeper than ever before to find out who the Aztecs were and how they built their remarkable empire. Using stunning CGI imagery, unique access to ongoing new excavations, and a pioneering experiment to build a replica Aztec pyramid in the Mexican countryside, Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs is an immersive investigation into the vanished world of this fascinating civilisation.
Dermdem is a comic artist who grew up in an orphanage and the only "warm and happy feelings" he knows is through the letter. When Dermdem saw a stray cat and took the cat home with him, one day that cat turned into a human. Apparently, he's from the "ear tribe". Meow had changed Dermdem's boring life to chaos, but in that chaos, Dermdem got to learn the true meaning of life and finally felt the feeling of warmth and happiness.
Ever since he can remember, Salin has been dreaming about a man in traditional Thai clothes. In every full moon night, that man will appear with the sweet scent of Kannika flowers and leave it beside a beautiful face that sleeps with sweet dreams before disappearing without a trace. However...when Salin turns 18 years old, that man disappeared from Salin's dream and life, not even saying goodbye. But then a strange feeling regurgitates his childhood memories again when Salin meets Suriyen, the CEO of the one of Asia’s largest gem import company.