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The lives of inhabitants of a housing commission tower whose paths cross after a shocking event occurs on their front doorstep.

Young academic pursues acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow while escaping her failed musician mother's shadow in this poignant character study.

When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for help. When she threatens to expose him, he tells her that no one would believe her.

While traveling, a judge witnesses a gang robbing a bank and vows to bring the thieves to justice, but the case turns personal when one of the outlaws turns out to be the son of a widow he admires.

A television production of Shakespeare's enduring comedy Measure for Measure from the Globe Theatre.

A plotting Duke leaves his kingdom in the hands of a prudish soldier, who evokes an arcane law making fornication punishable by death - but who then abuses his power when he becomes obsessed with an even more chaste young man.

Contemporary re-working of the Shakespeare's problem play set in the British army.

The physician and professor Herman Lundborg headed the world's first state racial biology institute in Uppsala, Sweden, from 1922 to '35. He was obsessed by the threat of racial mixing between Sámi, Finns and Swedes in the north. On his travels, he is drawn to a woman of Finnish-Sámi descent, and has a child with her.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE - deals with the abuse of male-patriarchal power and the casual acceptance of sexual violence.

When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.

When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.

A Duke disguises himself to discover the truth about human nature.

An offbeat history of mankind's obsession with measurement, told in four equal parts, begins with a look at the ways we measure length.

A reimagining of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Claudio's speech set in modern ages.

Three unconnected individuals see a young woman at an ice cream shop and imagine her life as it relates to their own lives and what they want most.