Movie Themes at the BBC (2023)

The Circus

Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus and brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town and its stars were among the most famous people in the country.

A Solitude poem

Ahmad Hallaj, who has been living alone for many years, is working in the city of Mahabad. Due to unemployment, he goes to the village of Lepers and ...

Love Kills

Young Tim leads an easy life - spoiled by his eccentric mother and his older, well-to-do boyfriend. Then, one day, he meets Bosi, a straight, low-level criminal thug, and falls in lust with him. Thus begins and impossible and potentially dangerous affair on the hard streets of Germany.

Shifted

Strange murderous creatures roam the streets. A group of neighbours are trapped inside a house. Leaving means certain death. How are they going to survive when someone inside the house starts killing the others? Trapped between a monster inside and monsters outside. Who is going to save you when the world has Shifted?

Escape to Glory

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O'Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.

Mumford & Sons: Unplugged

UK folk rockers Mumford & Sons mesmerizes the audience with typically acoustic tunes like "Sigh No More" and "The Cave," plus exclusive interviews with the buzzed about quartet on MTV Unplugged.

Pixies : Live At The Paradise In Boston

The Pixies are one of the most influential American acts of all time. Initially spanning the late eighties and early nineties they created the blueprint for alternative rock that would be followed and embellished upon by everyone from grunge to Britpop. After 10 years apart the Pixies reformed in 2004. This program is the second release in our Club Date series and features the Pixies in the intimate Paradise Club in Boston.

Alles Samba

Art expert Katharina Diezmann is out of the blue, when one day the little Brazilian Marcia is standing at her door. Years ago Katharina had taken over a sponsorship for the eleven-year-old, but never expected that she would ever meet her. The little girl is in Berlin with her samba group over Christmas and has only one wish: finally to see real snow!

La lepre testarda

Granny lets Bugs Bunny come in from the cold, but her dog Sylvester will have none of it.

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Bitterness of Youth

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

Två ägg i högklackat

Bröderna Ingemar och Gustav är ovänner och har delat verksamheten mitt itu. Gustav driver en motorsågsreparationsverkstad och Ingemar driver fortfarande sin motellverksamhet och har anställt den omöjliga snickaren Lufsen och Virena. Ingemar har nu anordnat en singelfest, men det hela verkar gå åt skogen då det bara är två anmälda, mor och sonen Bengtsson, men är de verkligen mor och son? Är verkligen den "hungrige pensionären" Hans- Rutger Vällingstråhle bara ute efter lunch eller är han också ute efter en kvinna?

The Man Who Couldn't Say No

Rasmus is a commissioning editor prepared to go to lengths to keep people happy - which is just what he has to do, because Rasmus has a problem. He can't say no. To his ex-girlfriend who wants a baby or his new girlfriend, who wants things clear cut, or his author pal, who wants to write for a limited audience, or his new boss, who wants to publish sex guides.