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Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour HBO miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts principles first by marrying Sylvia, a pretty, manipulative...

Tolstoy's portrait of 1880s Russian society life. Anna is discontented in her marriage to the older Karenin. While visiting her brother, she meets the dashing cavalry officer Count Vronsky. While initially uncertain about her feelings, she soon throws caution to the wind and embarks on a passionate affair with Vronsky.

Cash McCall is a young and slick business man who is enjoying himself plenty of late. He buys failing businesses and resells them. Grant Austen's Plastics is just said business. This is even more of a prize to Cash, for Cash is also making a bid for Austen's beautiful daughter, Lory. This is Cash's toughest deal ever.

Phoebe Meryll's father has a plan to save Colonel Fairfax from execution. Fairfax needs to marry before he dies, and Elsie, the sweetheart of Jack Point, the professional jester, agrees to be his temporary bride.

"Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they both become restless despite being truly and deeply in love. Unbeknownst to one another, they separately become acquainted with Adam, a younger man, and fall in love with him. Clearly not your typical 1930's romp, this reinvention of those classic films ... is a playful update: an intellectual study of a modern couple looking for redefinition...

The velvet vampire: A husband and wife accept the invitation of a mysterious woman to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when they realize that she is a vampire and that they are both objects of her desire. Lady Frankenstein: After her father, the Baron Frankenstein, is killed by one of his creations, Lady Tania creates a monster of her own to defeat it. Grotesque: Lisa and her family are attacked at their remote mountain cabin...

A musical sparked by Cantor's performance as a hyper-hypochondriac come West for a cure. He offers to give a ride to Sally, a woman in love with a Native American of mixed descent, who is running from an unwanted wedding with another man. But everyone thinks that they have eloped and they pursue the couple. Features some of Busby Berkeley's most fanciful choreography.

La vie promise: A prostitute and her estranged 14-year old daughter take to the road in hopes of putting their lives back together. La petite Lili:A young filmmaker despises and, at the same time, seeks the approval of his mother, an aging actress. His girlfriend and chief muse, Lili, wants to escape the life of a lowly country girl by becoming a star. La désenchantée: At 17, Beth faces bleak prospects. Her boyfriend takes her for granted, disgusting...

When Pocahontas befriends John Smith, an English colonists in 17th-century Virgina, both find their lives going in directions they never anticipated.