The School of Power

Schöne Witwen küssen besser

2004

Con artist Corinna seizes the opportunity and slips into the role of a baron's widow. She manages to gain access to the chambers of a billionaire in Nice. Once on the Cote D'Azur, she promptly encounters a rival. The swindlers vie for the billionaire, or whoever they think he is. Then the real widow turns up.

The Bastard

1978

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)

The Seekers

1979

This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)

Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie

1979

The 60s

1999

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

Golden Years

1991

When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife and a feisty female agent. All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.

The Prisoner of If Castle

1989

A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him

Radetzkymarsch

1965

The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon the novel by Joseph Roth.

Albert Einstein

1990

Two part movie about Einstein's escape from Germany in 1932 and his influence in the invention of the nuclear bomb in 1939.

Eine Art von Zorn

1984

An Iraqi secret service agent is murdered. The only witness is a woman, but she disappeared without a trace. The journalist Piet Maas actually tracks down Lucia, the murdered man's lover, and does a sensational interview with her. Piet should stick to the matter. He has the feeling that Lucia is hiding the important thing. His suspicions are confirmed. She is in possession of the murdered man's valuable records, which she wants to sell. Piet offers himself to Lucia as a broker...

Keine zweite Chance

2017

The day begins like many others in the Schwarz family's life: doctor Nora is preparing breakfast, one-year-old Jella is playing on her blanket, father Mickey is still in the bathroom. Suddenly shots are fired. - When Nora wakes up from her coma 10 days later, nothing is as it was before: Mickey has been fatally shot and there is no trace of Jella. Nora herself has been shot and has no memory of that fateful morning. Who did this to her family?

The Private Life of Plants

1995

David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this six-part series focuses on one of the critical stages through which every plant must pass if it is to survive:- travelling, growing, and flowering; struggling with one another; creating alliances with other organisms both plant and animal; and evolving complex ways of surviving in the earth's most ferociously hostile environments.

Ivanhoe

1982

Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.

Gypsy

1980

A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

1979

Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.