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Dramatizes the life of Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa, focusing on her rise to power, political reforms, and personal challenges in 18th-century Europe.

A biographical film about the black-and-white era Czech actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair with one of the Third Reich's most powerful men: the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.

Sometime in the distant future, several earthlings turn up on a strange planet ruled over by a despotic ruler with magic powers. A young earth-man initiates a successful uprising.

In love with a girl that smells of oranges while in a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek's world is a story about the joy and pain of growing up in the isolated yet beautiful Lusatian Mountains. Here, horses are not expensive specimens of racing stables but beings you should care for and love. Not even that is enough in life though, as Darek finds out nearing the Summer's end, closing his childhood definitely. However, just like any ending, this is a start of something new. This is an adaptation of the book, "The Orange Days," which has won literary prizes in Europe and been published in five languages.

A gentleman Jirí Oulický hires a servant Saturnin and from that day he goes through many unusual situations.

Unreleased film based on the book Ostrvo Balkan by Vidosav Stevanovic about the Bosnian War and the ethnic nationalism which led to it.

Seventy-year old Zoltan Max may be a rebel and a skirt-chaser but on the job he's still got it - along with a millennial for a partner.

Rural Germany, 1922: A skeleton turns up that has been buried for ca. 10 years. When Inspector Bauer starts his inquiries, farmer Emcke confesses a murder. But what is Bauer supposed to do if he doubts a cast-iron confession such as this?

This is based on the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925, caused when criminal Arturo Alves Reis (Teply) forged documentation which persuaded the British printing firm Waterlow & Sons to produce nearly as many 500-escudo banknotes as were legitimately in circulation, as Waterlow were the official printers for the Bank of Portugal. The notes were not forgeries, as such, just not officially authorised.

1932: when a conman fleeces businessmen and insurance companies in various Italian cities, a private investigator's chance encounter with an artistic nun leads to an early use of a police sketch, finally resulting in the conman's capture.

Czechoslowakia, 1927: some safe-cracking crimes are solved, in part by using a the method of detailed examination of "tool marks" for the first time.

A crime wave hits 1877 New York, culminating in a string of jewellery store break-ins. Investigating the case, detective Byrnes finds some well-connected men are trying to stop him. He needs to use a dirty trick in order to win this one.

The notes were not forgeries, as such, just not officially authorised.

Amsterdam 1945: 20 years in prison for collaborating with the enemy, or a few years for art fraud? The police are not convinced van Meegeren is a genius forger, as he claims. They think he is just trying to avoid a much stiffer sentence.