Příběh se odehrává ve Francii 14. století a je o posledním, oficiálním, Francií posvěceném duelu mezi dvěma muži. Jean de Carrouges a Jacques Le Gris jsou přátelé, ze kterých se stanou rivalové. Středobodem jejich pře je Marguerite, žena Carrougese. Tu Le Gris dle jejích slov napadne, ona ho veřejně obviní, jenže on tvrdí, že je nevinný. Carrouges začne bránit čest své ženy a výsledkem je duel s tím nejvyšším rizikem – smrtí. V případě prokázání nevinny Le Grise navíc Marguerite hrozí ještě upálení za živa.
Amatérský boxer zoufale hledá bohatého otce, kterého nikdy nepoznal, a snaží se získat prostředky na matčinu operaci. Cestuje z Filipín do Koreje, je neúnavně pronásledován a nucen čelit šokující pravdě.
U malého ostrůvku ztroskotá loď poté, co najede na mělčinu. Zdá se, že bójky vyznačující bezpečný průplav někdo úmyslně posunul. Jen jediný člověk přežije potopení lodi i následné řádění žraloků – dobrodruh Robert Rainsford (Joel McCrea). Na ostrově Bob objevuje starou pevnost obývanou ruským podivínem hrabětem Zaroffem (Leslie Banks) a jeho ještě podivnějšími nemluvnými sluhy. Zdá se, že Bobova loď nebyla první, která se v těchto místech v poslední době potopila. Bob se tak v domě setkává se sourozenci Evou a Martinem Trowbridgeovými, také ztroskotanci. Ve vhodné chvíli Eva Robertovi svěří své obavy z nepochopitelného chování jejich hostitele. Té noci Martin Trowbridge záhadně zmizí. Lov na lidi může začít.
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks.
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost.
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform one man into a national sensation and iconic fairy-tale character. His name: Petrus Gonsalvus, more commonly known today as the hairy hero of Beauty and the Beast.
At the forests of Östergötland, where land meets sea, rests the old castle Herrborum. Here lives count Magnus Stenbock, 92, according to his own ideas about what is appropriate and what is not. Film-maker Helena Nygren is fascinated by the count and the castle, and is allowed to film on the condition that she takes the role of companion lady. Over one year, Helena returns several times to take part of count Magnus Stenbock and his servants life on castle Herrborum in Östergötland. Time stands still on the castle, and in the movie Helena wants to preserve the fairy tale feeling she gets when she steps into these ancient surroundings. The count is a strong personality with strong opinions and a great interest in history. All kinds of people come to his castle to savor the special atmosphere and follow the old fashioned rules of etiquette. Helena transforms from an observer to a lady who participates in the social games on the estate, where everything moves around its own time axis.
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the sumptuous setting of Topkapi, the Ottoman sultans' own Istanbul seraglio (palace harem). Belmonte finds his fiancée Konstanze and her English maid Blondchen, who were captured and sold by pirates, in the Mediterranean seraglio of the Ottoman pasha Selim. Belmonte's servant Pedrillo gets him engaged as builder. After Selim tried to enforce himself upon Konstanze, Pedrillo and Blondchen, his own sweetheart, prepare their flight, managing to get Osmin, the pasha's overseer, drunk. Yet Osmin and Selim's guard still capture them, already in the garden; however the touching display of true love melts the pasha's heart, so he lets them go.
The adventures of teenagers Malcolm Scott and Phillip Harrison as they improve on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and save the world.
Dvojice fiktivních hrdinů – Záboj a Mlhoš prochází obdobím husitských nepokojů a ovlivňují nejdůležitější události doby. Ovšem v protikladu k tomu, jak byla tato historie interpretována. Záboj s Mlhošem se dokáží náhodně a většinou i proti své vůli připlést k těm nejdůležitějším historickým událostem. Ovšem nejsou jen svědkové doby a událostí či jejími glosátory. Stávají se účastníky dění, které aktivně ovlivňují.
LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE (The Touchstone) concerns the Count Asdrubale who is wealthy and therefore of great interest to many women – notably Aspasia, Fulvia, and Clarice. Only Clarice, however, loves him for something other than his riches. There are also male hangers-on: the corrupt journalist Macrobio, the poetaster Pacuvio, and Giocondo, who is Asdrubale's true friend, but who has his own eyes on Clarice. To test his friends and would-be fiancées, Asdrubale pretends that he has been bankrupted. Sure enough, only Clarice and Giocondo stand by him, and when his fortune is "miraculously" saved, the three have the last laugh on everyone else... or do they? This production is set in what looks like the early 1960s. But the real innovation is the use of blue screen technology: using tiny cameras and sets, along gigantic screens hanging over the stage, a kind of video mixing makes the singers appear to inhabit any number of fanciful settings and perform a myriad of improbable actions.
After the death of his beloved wife, a nobleman from northern Croatia turns to spiritualism refusing to accept that she's gone. She begins to appear in his presence and he starts to believe that she's alive.
In this three-act operetta by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, a dashing and mysterious circus performer is hired by a disappointed suitor of Princess Fedora Palinska to pose as a nobleman and marry her. This 1969 performance was produced for West German television.