Een professionele rattenvanger staat centraal in dit minder bekende, korte verhaal van Roald Dahl.

Twee grote, onwetende pestkoppen achtervolgen meedogenloos een kleine, briljante jongen in dit korte verhaal van Roald Dahl voor jonge volwassenen.

Het beschrijft een verscheidenheid aan verhalen, maar de belangrijkste volgt Henry Sugar, die door objecten heen kan kijken en de toekomst kan voorspellen met behulp van een boek dat hij heeft gestolen.

The irreverent Scottish comedian tackles big themes like death, decline and the disappointments of middle age in her stand-up special filmed in Bristol.

Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on capital punishment, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague. Long time ago, both of them were in love with the widow of the deceased. Immersed in the complicated case and long forgotten memories, they create a future where their children have to live, inheriting unrealized aspirations of their parents.

Queen Esmeralda hates men because they have always limited her freedom, so she does not want her two daughters to suffer the same fate. Therefore, when the ship in which they are traveling passes near an apparently deserted island, she invokes a portentous storm.

After his attempted robbery runs aground, a thief takes a shine to his would-be victim, a charming prostitute, who begins to tell him her life story.

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement ("unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography and the telegraph are transforming the social order and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money and the government are not all but fictions.

Een groep helden verzameld door een excentrieke miljardair betreedt een gesloten Perimeter vol abnormale activiteit die onverklaarbaar is in termen van wetenschap. Deze reis zal alle leden van de groep veranderen en hun kijk op de werkelijkheid omkeren.

Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he's asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits in the park, he suddenly sees an old friend whom he hasn't seen since they quarrelled when they were yeshiva students together. Hersh, a rabbi, survived Auschwitz and his faith was strengthened by his ordeal, while Chaim escaped the Nazis, but had lost his faith long before. The two walk together, reminisce, and argue passionately about themselves, their actions, their lives, their religion, their old quarrel, and their friendship.

Een jong stel wordt gedwongen hun christelijke missiepost in de Kalahari-woestijn te verlaten nadat ze met de dood zijn bedreigd door een extremistische militante bende. Nadat hun vliegtuig is neergestort, moeten ze voor hun leven met mens en dier vechten.

Contemporary philosopher Roger Scruton presents a fascinating argument for the importance of beauty in our art and in our lives, and explores what truly is and is not beautiful, regardless of its beholder.

Som, daughter of a sex worker, believes that love will lead her towards a better life. Ter, a young criminal, robs just to buy love that doesn't exist. Redlife explores a world that is broken, ignored, and which offers no escape.

Taskmaster's Alex Horne has a side career: he's the leader of a band called The Horne Section. They've already performed with some of the biggest names in music and comedy and now they've scored their very own two-hour special featuring Alex and the band's spontaneous and free-wheeling combination of live music and comedy.

Guillermo del Toro, Rian Johnson en andere filmgrootheden blikken terug op het historische Egyptian Theatre in LA, dat nu in zijn oude glorie als filmpaleis wordt hersteld.

Louis C.K.'s 10th stand-up special filmed in Hollywood at the Dolby Theatre (2023). "I performed and filmed this new comedy special at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, CA in early January 2023. It includes a lot of the same material that was in my livestream "Back To The Garden," but it also has a bunch of other stuff that wasn't in that show. Including a totally different closing chunk of jokes. And it is shot more carefully and with more and better cameras. And better editing. I like to think of it this way: "Back To The Garden" was the live concert, and "Louis C.K. at The Dolby" is the album." -- Louis C.K.

De hoofdcast van No Returns Accepted komt bijeen om te praten over hoe dit project hun leven heeft beïnvloed, anekdotes die nog nooit eerder zijn verteld en om te ontdekken wat er 10 jaar later met hun leven gebeurt.

Lerares Rachel tikt de veertig aan als ze smoorverliefd wordt op Ali, die ze tijdens een gitaarles leert kennen. Al snel raakt ze ook verknocht aan zijn vierjarige dochter Leila en krijgt ze ook te maken met de moeder van het meisje. In deze nieuwe situatie ervaart Rachel niet alleen moedergevoelens voor Leila en alle risico’s die het houden van andermans kinderen met zich mee brengen, maar begint ze ook haar eigen kinderwens te herontdekken.