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- An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
- Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
- After being declared dead for a second time, a man comes back to life with the ability to see his past lives.
- The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
- A man buys a house on Manhattan, uninhabited for decades - except the ghosts of the previous owner and his wife. They meddle in his love life.
- The series revolves around a man who plays the role of a grandson who defected to fulfill the grandmother's last wish from the North, a woman who falls in love with that man, and the people involved in the play.
- A young Frenchman is determined to dump his girlfriend due to her invariable excessive tardiness.
- Two decades after its unprecedented television broadcast, the cast, crew and fans of the notorious BBC 'Hallowe'en Hoax' Ghostwatch look back at the show's unique production and legendary aftermath.
- A window washer (Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") is accused of stealing jewels from a famous actress, but is given 30 days to solve the crime.
- Seven boys and girls start their own theatre company and use their individual talents to produce plays for their friends and families. They have to work hard to be taken seriously by their parents and friends and they have to impress the judges of the Seymore Trophy acting competition.
- Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her adopted father dies, she begins to search for her biological father. The trail leads into the redwood forest the Riordans have owned for generations, to a 'Nam vet who lives there. But he doesn't want to talk to her, and Geri must convince him to give her the answers she's looking for.
- A rivalry develops between a showbiz veteran and an upstart newcomer.
- The third movie in the "Pink Curtain" series depicts the deep bond and forbidden love of brothers and sisters with the power and delicacy of the previous two works and more.
- DVD release of seven short films by François Ozon originally produced between 1993 and 2006. A Curtain Raiser, X2000, Bed Scenes, Little Death, Truth or Dare, A Rose Between Us, Victor.
- In a secluded house by the sea with the curtains shut, a screenwriter hides from the world with only his dog as company. The tranquility is abruptly broken one night by the arrival of a young woman fleeing from the authorities. Refusing to leave, she takes refuge in the house. But come dawn, another unexpected presence will change everything.
- Eve Mannering realizes too late that her abusive husband is a philanderer and murderer and seeks protection with her true love, explorer John Beetham.
- In a small town in the 1950s, a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.
- Ted and Lulu Hackett are vaudeville's The Hacketts, a fairly successful song-and-dance team. They bring their son Ted Jr. up in the business and he soon eclipses them. When the son is offered a starring role on Broadway, he arranges for his parents to join him in the show, but Ted Sr. is embarrassed to learn that he and Lulu are there purely in order to keep their son happy. They return to vaudeville, only to find that their duet act has gone stale with time. Meanwhile, Ted Jr. has married and had a son, but he has also fallen victim to drink. Tragedy strikes the Hackett family, and only the march of time will tell whether Ted III will repeat the failings of his father and grandfather.
- This striking and moving documentary from BAFTA nominated directors Jacqui and David Morris traces the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev. From his birth in the 5th class carriage of a trans-Siberian train, to his dramatic leap to freedom in the West at the height of the Cold War, and unprecedented adulation as the most famous dancer in the world. The film highlights Nureyev's unlikely yet legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn and charts his meteoric rise to the status of global cultural phenomenon. Nureyev's life plays out like the sweeping plot of a classic Russian novel. His story is Russia's story. Blending never-before-seen footage, with an original score by award-winning composer Alex Baranowski and spellbinding newly choreographed dance tableaux directed by Royal Ballet alumnus, Russell Maliphant, Nureyev is a theatrical and cinematic experience like no other. This is a portrayal as unique as the man himself. There will never be another Nureyev.
- Karin finds herself back at home in Dresden when the flight on which she is stewardess, is forced down. She is then used by the State police to find her wanted brother, so when Jim arrives to get her back, he has to watch his back.
- Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
- The star of a new Broadway-bound musical has been murdered on stage on opening night. The entire cast and crew are suspects. Time to call in the local detective, Frank Cioffi.
- Mrs. Knudsen lives in a run-down apartment in Vesterbro and must not only be dragged here with her little cheater by a son, Arnold, but also his friend Benny. The two young men are astonishingly creative in their shady activities, but as a young woman moves into the stairwell, they throw all their efforts into seducing her. And soon it's night with Mrs. Knudsen.
- Shot clandestinely over a two year period, this film provides a rare look into the second most isolated country on the planet held in a stasis by a brutal military regime for almost a half century. From over 100 interviews of people across Burma, including the recently released Aung San Suu Kyi, interwoven with stunning footage of Burmese life this documentary is truly unique.
- An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor.
- After a horror play's final performance, The Vampire roams the theater.
- A burnt-out ex-nurse in search of a new life moves into a new apartment, but a strange portal in her bathroom wall threatens to destroy any sense of normality.
- Private eye Sam Dennison is relaxing at a nudist camp when he receives an assignment to find international spy Mr. X, who receives information from night club entertainers around the world. Sam travels to Vegas, Hong Kong, Thailand, Paris, Haiti, Mexico, Hawaii, Berlin and Tokyo, watching lovely women perform, and stopping back at the nudist camp (which he is attempting to buy from its beautiful owner, Martha).
- As a B grade erotic theater group is about to close down, affected by the economic recession, they decide to perform a proper theater play for their last show as they have always been dreaming of. Their choice of play is the classic theater play, 'Hamlet'. However, once the theater play has started running, their performance goes to an unexpected direction due to the mistakes and ad lib they never thought were going to happen on the stage. Will their curtain call occur happily as they hoped in the beginning?
- A naive playwright sells her awful play, "The End of Everything," to two Broadway producers who want to get even with an ungrateful star.
- Christo, an artist, wants to put a piece of orange fabric across a valley. This Oscar-nominated film documents his success showing how a large piece of fabric can look small when accomplished.
- Behind the Orange Curtain is a documentary that delves into the staggering problem of teenage drug abuse in one of the most affluent counties in the country. Young, privileged teenagers are dying of drug overdoses in record numbers in Orange County, California. This documentary film will set out to ask the question.....why?
- Curtain Call is the unforgettable story of eight remarkable residents of the Actors' Fund Retirement Home. No ordinary nursing home, these residents are still full of vitality as they recall tales of Broadway's golden age, and what they have done with their lives. Dramatically told by award winning director Chuck Braverman, the film was nominated for an Academy Award.
- Mission to bring out a scientist from Hungary.
- Three kids discover the remains of the legendary Spook Train, they're about to experience why it was shut down by a moral panic. It's a dark ride with an even darker sense of humor.
- An aspiring rock star finally gets his big break in the music industry after having neglected everyone he loves and is now trying to make up for lost time, but will he be too late?
- Isabelle, Cécilia and François are drama students at the "Conservatoire d'art dramatique". Cécilia is in love with François, but the young man is in love with Isabelle instead. Cécilia elaborates a desperate plan to get back at François.
- A group of college theater students sneak into the Baxter University theater at night to initiate the 'fresh meat'. Something goes terribly wrong. The next night the same actors become locked into the theater, each one of them has to face the consequences for their actions.
- Sarah Crabtree was once a star of the stage, but has fallen on hard times; the city has condemned and torn down her apartment building and she has nowhere to go. She writes to her wealthy, famous friend Lady Henrietta Scorsby to help, only to be notified that Henrietta--well known for her proclivity for travel to exotic locales--is missing in Africa's Gobi Desert. Devastated by the news, Sarah--who has a chronic heart condition--decides to end her days by impersonating the carefree, fun-loving Henrietta at the Long Island estate of Henrietta's nephew John, who has only seen her once, many years previously. She soon finds out that her friend's family is beset by a variety of problems, and she sets out to solve these problems before she dies. But it turns out that they might not be so easily solvable.
- An unemployed deadbeat runs into a heap of girl-trouble when he's forced to choose the lesser of two evils: the succubus haunting his bathtub or the psychotic girlfriend lying in his bedroom.
- A backstage pass to Micky Flanagan's career, from early raw material in the East End to staging the world's biggest comedy tour in 2017.
- Documentary about Sid Vicious' last shows in New York City.
- A self-centered investment banker gradually loses touch with reality. He comes to grips with a haunting nemesis who forces him to face the truth about all that is taking place around him; particularly the death of a little girl that he could have saved.
- Devised as a vehicle for the members of Momoiro Clover Z, The Curtain Rises is the story of Saori and school-mates who are high school students and members of a performance group. When teacher Yoshioka, who has performance experience, joins the school she exhorts the girls to become more ambitious and go for the national contest.