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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.

An examination of the architect Albert Speer's role in Nazi Germany, his trial at Nuremberg and conviction for war crimes, despite his claims of ignorance of the Holocaust.

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 orphan Rémi lives with his impoverished adoptive parents on a farm. When money runs out, his father sells Rémi to homeless street performer Vitalis, once a famous opera singer who ended up destitute after a tragic love story.

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.

The first series depicts the adventures of the famous gentleman burglar in the 1930s and the second, in the 1940s.

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.

After Clement Ader's exploit, a few of eccentric Frenchmen get obsessed by making a dream become a reality - to fly.

Story of crimes, love and high society scandals.

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.

A wealthy widow in her forties wants to end a relationship with her younger lover, who isn't ready to let go.

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.

A German WWI aviator leaves what he sees as a decadent homeland and gets involved in Russia against the Communists.

Vehicle for the popular Hans Albers, as a confident, cynical engineer in 1905 Canada suspected of trying to sabotage construction of a water project.

Businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.

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.

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.

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 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.