Um solitário Frankenstein (Christian Bale) viaja até Chicago dos anos 30 para pedir ajuda à revolucionária cientista Dra. Euphronious na criação de uma companheira. Juntos, devolvem a vida a uma jovem assassinada — e assim nasce A Noiva (Jessie Buckley). O que se segue vai muito além do que algum deles poderia imaginar: assassinato, possessão, um movimento cultural selvagem e radical — e dois amantes fora da lei mergulhados num romance explosivo e incontrolável!
Na tentativa de deixar para trás as suas vidas problemáticas, dois irmãos gémeos, interpretados por Jordan, regressam à sua cidade natal para recomeçar, apenas para descobrir que um mal ainda maior está à espera para os receber de volta.
Milagres acontecem nos mais inesperados locais, até mesmo no corredor da morte do bloco prisional da Penitenciária Cold Mountain. Ali, John Coffey, um gentil e enorme prisioneiro com poderes sobrenaturais, traz aos seus guardas e colegas de prisão, um sentido de espiritualidade e humanização que eles não esperavam lá encontrar.
Situada em 1930, a história se passa em uma antiga casa de campo Inglesa onde uma festa de fim de semana está em andamento. A história gira em torno da família McCordle, particularmente o homem da casa, William McCordle. Entrado nos anos, William tornou-se benfeitor para muitos de seus parentes e amigos. Conforme o fim de semana passa, segredos são revelados, e parece que todos, acima e abaixo das escadas, quer um pedaço de William e de seu dinheiro. Mas, o quão longe eles irão para obtê-lo?
A “Ilha do Diabo” não é somente uma prisão…é um purgatório onde homens pagam por seus crimes sofrendo as maiores degradações e brutalidades. Localizada na Guiana Francesa, é um lugar cercado por uma floresta impenetrável e de onde é impossível que algum de seus prisioneiros consiga fugir. Henri Charrière (Steve McQueen) é conhecido pelo apelido de “Papillon” devido à tatuagem de uma borboleta que carrega em seu peito. Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman) é seu companheiro, um prisioneiro frágil e intelectualizado. Dois homens com nada em comum, mas cheios de vontade de viver e de buscar um lugar para morrer.
Em Illinois, em 1936, dois vigaristas dão um golpe em um capanga de um gângster e embolsam muito dinheiro. O gângster decide se vingar e mata um dos que lhe aplicaram o golpe, enquanto o outro foge e entra em contato com um ex-parceiro. Eles decidem então aplicar um tremendo "conto do vigário" que abalará as finanças deste chefão mafioso.
Ninguém conseguia parar Dillinger e o seu gang. Nenhuma prisão o conseguia deter. As suas encantadoras e audazes fugas fazem com que o povo se apaixone por ele numa altura em que os americanos não tinham qualquer simpatia pelos bancos que tinham feito cair o país numa depressão. Mas enquanto as aventuras do gang de Dillinger, incluindo posteriormente o sociopata Baby Face Nelson e Alvin Karpis, maravilhavam tudo e todos, o Presidente Hoover tinha intenção de capturar Dillinger de forma a elevar o seu Centro de Investigação à condição de policia nacional. Tornando Dillinger "Inimigo Público Número Um" atribui a Purvis, um impetuoso agente conhecido como "Clark Gable do FBI", a missão de capturar o mais famoso gangster da América.
Acompanha a família Crawley e os seus empregados à medida que entram na década de 1930. Quando Mary se vê envolvida num escândalo público e a família enfrenta problemas financeiros, toda a casa corre o risco de cair em desgraça social. Os Crawley têm de aceitar as mudanças, enquanto a equipa se prepara para um novo capítulo, com a próxima geração a conduzir Downton Abbey rumo ao futuro.
Nova Iorque nos anos 30. Sem paciência para as discussões dos pais, para o irmão gangster e o negócio de família, Bobby Dorfman chega à conclusão que precisa de uma mudança de cenário! Assim, decide ir para Hollywood, onde o seu tio Phil, um poderoso agente de estrelas de cinema, contrata-o como moço de recados. Em Hollywood, apaixona-se, mas infelizmente a rapariga tem namorado. Bobby conforma-se com a ideia de serem apenas amigos - até ao dia em que ela bate à sua porta, explicando-lhe que o namorado a deixou. Subitamente, a vida de Bobby dá uma inesperada e romântica reviravolta.
Na década de 20, David Aaronson e Maximillian Bercouicz, dois amigos de origem judaica, crescem juntos cometendo pequenos crimes nas ruas do Lower East Side, Nova Iorque. Gradualmente, estes crimes assumem proporções maiores e a máfia judaica passa a ter tanta força que os amigos do passado se tornam rivais.
Na Coreia da década de 1930, durante o período da ocupação japonesa, uma rapariga, Sookee, é contratada como criada de uma herdeira japonesa, Hideko, que leva uma vida isolada numa enorme propriedade rural ao lado de um tio dominador, Kouzuki. Mas a criada guarda um segredo: ela é uma ladra recrutada por um impostor, que se faz passar por um conde japonês, para o ajudar a seduzir a senhora e convencê-la a casar com ele em segredo, roubar-lhe a fortuna e trancá-la num manicómio. O plano parece decorrer sem sobressaltos até Sookee e Hideko descobrirem emoções inesperadas.
As aventuras de Gustave H, dono de um famoso hotel europeu, e Zero Moustafa, o criado que se torna no seu amigo de confiança. A história envolve o roubo e a recuperação de uma preciosa pintura renascentista e a luta por uma enorme fortuna de família - tudo sob o cenário de um continente que passa por inesperadas e dramáticas mudanças.
O arqueólogo e aventureiro Indiana Jones parte em busca da mítica Arca da Aliança, o objecto mais sagrado dos judeus, onde se terão guardado as tábuas originais dos Dez Mandamentos. Mas a busca pelo objecto sagrado, alegadamente dotado de poderes divinos, torna-se numa corrida contra os nazis, que querem usar o artefacto como arma de guerra.
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Mystery! is an episodic television series that debuted in 1980 in the USA. It airs on PBS and is produced by WGBH. The show has brought a large number of detective series and television movies—most of them British productions from the BBC or the ITV companies and usually adapted from mystery fiction literary sources—to air on American television. In 2002, they added an American-produced series based on the novels of Tony Hillerman to their roster.
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
The Untouchables is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons in syndication, from January 1993 to May 1994. The series portrayed work of the real life Untouchables federal investigative squad in Prohibition-era Chicago and its efforts against Al Capone's attempts to profit from the market in bootleg liquor. The series features Tom Amandes as Eliot Ness and William Forsythe as Al Capone, and was based on the 1959 series and 1987 film of the same name.
Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.
Ben Reilly, an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, is forced to grapple with his past life as the city's one and only superhero.
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.
The personal and professional lives of the staff of fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, before and during World War II.
Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur. Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio. The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.
Lu Yiping, one of many children of a retired general with nine wives, is banished from her family home due to Wang Xueqin. Driven by resentment, she plots revenge by targeting her stepsister's love interest, He Shuhuan. But as Yiping navigates life with her mother, she unexpectedly finds forgiveness and love through the people she meets, transforming her journey of vengeance into one of self-discovery and healing.
A K-fantasy action unfolds as the Nine-tailed fox makes a crash landing in the year 1938, an era of chaos, and he struggles to return to the present.
The Manhunter is an American crime drama that was part of CBS' lineup for the 1974–1975 television season. The series was produced by Quinn Martin and starred Ken Howard as Dave Barret, a 1930s-era private investigator from Idaho. The series was executive produced by Quinn Martin.
Set at the outbreak of WWII – mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending war – chasing women, collecting rare books and living off his family fortune. Forever in the shadow of his brother Peter, and an eternal disappointment to his formidable mother Eve, Fleming dreams of becoming the ‘ultimate’ man – a hero, a lover, a brute and the one who always gets the girl. He is finally given some direction in his life when he’s recruited by the Director of Naval Intelligence to help in the effort against the Nazis. Suddenly, Fleming finds his chance to shine and prove his worth.
The 1930s Hong Kong is the time of the East and West cultural shock. Women started fighting for their rights and status, changing the 'men superior to women' image. Famous barrister Sir Arthur Chung studied in England and lives a British lifestyle, but inside he's actually a traditional Chinese man. He married several wives to show off his power and upper-class status. First wife Koo Sam-lan was a rich girl; second wife is former Qing dynasty princess Aisin Gioro Yee-yin; third wife came from a family that owned banks Yvonne Yik; fourth wife is a famous Peking opera singer Hong Tsz-kwan; and the fifth wife Chui Dan-dan, a vanity admiring woman. Because Sir Arthur Chung is a strict and authoritarian father, his two sons Charles Chung and Jimmy Chung eventually start going against him. This wealthy and prominent family may seem warm on the surface, but in reality, they are scattered and disunited.
