Movies: Television theater

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

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, b...

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

Television adaptation of Strindberg's play about the midsummer romance between the noblewoman and the valet....

Jonas has to stay at home on the farm and look after his seven younger siblings, because stepfather and stepmother are going to a wedding with eldest daughter Anna. But Jonas is curious about how the party goes and when it might be his turn to get ma...

Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the power of himself and weapons....

About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant....

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....

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

Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist....

A young man Lomov comes to propose to his neighbour Natalya but they keep on fighting over various topics....

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'...

After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire. The main battle is between the Spartacists and the Freikorps and Andreas needs to find a place for himself in the conflict for the future of Germany...

Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future....

Fredrik is a male feminist who has a big fight with his wife one morning. When a widow shows up in their home and starts telling his wife how great it is to be a widow he flees the apartment but finds himself constantly followed by a gang of women....

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....

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....

Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...

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

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