Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

Medea(sv)

Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.

The Tragedy of King Christophe(fr)

Special broadcast of Aimé Césaire's text, directed by Hervé Denis for the Cooperation and Cultural Action Mission of the French Embassy in Haiti.

Seven Crosses in a Notebook(ru)

Orestea(it)

The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.

Körsbärsträdgården(sv)

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

Muntra fruarna i Windsor(sv)

A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.

Night Café(sv)

Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night

Romeo and Juliet(en)

Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

I lodjurets timma(sv)

A boy imprisoned for a double murder is used in a prison experiment involving placing an animal in the cells of prisoners.

Färdknäpp(sv)

Dennis feels he's had enough of the cozy middle-class life in the suburbia. Before the middle-age (and John Denver's records) puts him down he wants to break away from everything. Unfortunately his wife Pauline and their friends William and Jane don't make it easy for him. To make matters worse, there seems to be some young punks vandalizing the neighborhood, but it's definitely not the ones everyone seem to believe it is.

Easter(sv)

Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.

Twelfth Night(sv)

Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Misantropen(sv)

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.

Lek ej med kärleken(sv)

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.

Ett Dockhem(sv)

Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.

Han som fick leva om sitt liv(sv)

The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes.

Från regnormarnas liv(sv)

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.

Comrades(sv)

Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the topic of gender equality in marriage and society, for example the property rights of married women.

Stängda dörrar(sv)

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.

Revisorn(sv)

When the people of a small corrupt town find out a secret inspector will be arriving shortly they panic, something which a lazy civil servant takes full advantage of and lets them believe that he is that inspector.

The Magic of Ordinary Days(en)

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault(en)

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

Starving in Suburbia(en)

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

TalhotBlond(en)

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

Girl in the Box(en)

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

From Straight A's to XXX(en)

When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.

Heaven(en)

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. Then tragedy tears her world apart and she must forge her own way in the cruel, unknown world.

Hello Sister, Goodbye Life(en)

A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.

Cheaters(en)

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

My Dinner with Hervé(en)

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.

Northanger Abbey(en)

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

Iron Jawed Angels(en)

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

A Royal Runaway Romance(en)

Princess Amelia of Bundbury travels across America to explore a budding romance with an artist, only to fall in love with her bodyguard, Grady.

Seeds of Yesterday(en)

The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.

My Christmas Prince(en)

Samantha, a dedicated teacher in Manhattan, returns to her home town of Maple Falls, Wyoming every year for Christmas. This year, she’s delighted when her boyfriend Alex, a European diplomat from the tiny country of Madelvia, decides to joins her. Samantha later discovers Alex is actually a prince destined for the throne, turning her entire world upside down. Realizing that staying with Alex means spending her life in the constant glare of publicity and giving up the job opportunity of a lifetime, Samantha must decide if she loves Alex enough to make the transition from teacher to royal – or will it be too big a leap

The Hunchback(en)

Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, and his unrequited love for the gypsy girl, Esmeralda.

A Bramble House Christmas(en)

While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim what he considers his family’s money, going undercover to investigate the bed and breakfast the nurse has recently taken over. When Finn meets Willa, he discovers she’s not a conniving gold digger at all, but a woman in need who put the money to good use. When she discovers his true identity, will it keep Willa from ever trusting him again?

Home for Christmas Day(en)

Jane is a single mother dead set on protecting her teenage daughter Betsy from the harsh realities of life. When Betsy falls in love with an enlisted man, Jane tries her best to steer Betsy away from heartache. Little does Jane realize she and her daughter are about to learn important lessons of the heart and that taking chances can sometimes lead to the most extraordinary happy endings.

The Wedding March(en)

When former college sweethearts Olivia Pershing and Mick Turner are unexpectedly reunited the weekend of Olivia's wedding, the former couple initially locks horns but as the events of the weekend unfold, Olivia and Mick find old feelings rising to the surface. Will the bride-to-be walk down the aisle as planned or will she decide to give her first love a second chance?

Love Finds You in Valentine(en)

Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.