The Forsyte Saga

Fanny and Alexander

November 2024 •Swedish

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.

Tre kärlekar

November 2024 •Swedish

Upstairs, Downstairs

November 2024 •English

Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

November 2024 •English

The Kennedys of Massachusetts is a 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC. Focusing mainly on the fifty-four year marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. The events depicted in the series are based upon the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin titled The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American Saga. The series aired across three nights, an earned an Emmy and Golden Globe.

Thicker Than Water

November 2024 •Swedish

The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer: Her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won't inherit it at all. It is a mother’s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family’s unsolved past, present forces of attraction, and a very dark secret buried in a most unfortunate place...

The Thorn Birds

November 2024 •English

The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback.

Roots

November 2024 •English

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.

The Restaurant

November 2024 •Swedish

Monday May 7, 1945 – the Second World War finally comes to an end and a new, brighter future beckons. In the midst of central Stockholm celebrations, two strangers come together with a quick kiss, parting company immediately after. Upper-class girl Nina and kitchen hand Calle don’t yet know that their brief encounter will come to have tumultuous consequences.

The Best Intentions

November 2024 •Swedish

The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. How they fell in love, married against the wishes of their families, and had a difficult marriage and life in rural Sweden. Bergman's father was a pastor and poor; his mother from a well to do cultured family. It ends with the birth of Ingmar.

Selambs

November 2024 •Swedish

A story of five siblings growing up in their family's crumbling manor.

Our Miracle Years

November 2024 •German

In a politically, morally and economically destroyed country, three sisters of an industrialist family in post-war Germany reinvent themselves and set the course for their future.

The Forsyte Saga

November 2024 •English

Epic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century.

Pachinko

November 2024 •English

Follow the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family beginning with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell the unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning.

Möbelhandlarens dotter

November 2024 •Swedish

Wong Wien Hua Jai

November 2024 •Thai

Bow returns to Thailand after she learns that her boyfriend, Pong, has cheated on her and has impregnated Vithinee who he is now going to marry. Vithinee is the sickly, younger sister of the vineyard owning male lead, Tos. He is extremely protective of her.

Lessons in Chemistry

November 2024 •English

In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.

Weekend with Pops

November 2024 •Serbian

The 2020 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a seven part mini-series. A middle-aged former criminal has little time to live due to cancer, so he gets to see his son after 5 years to spend his last week with him and teach him the principles he considers important in life.

Pretty Hard Cases

November 2024 •English

A fun and honest portrayal of two radically different female detectives in their early 40s following Guns and Gangs detective Sam and Narcotics detective Kelly, who by day are true action heroes in their own particular way: skilled, tough, determined, and ruthless. But by night, they’re both grappling with loneliness, dysfunctional families, screwed-up love lives, and a sense that their professional ambitions may not be totally in line with their personal needs.

Bonkis

November 2024 •Turkish

Guys With Kids

November 2024 •Chinese

Three men are thrown together by a toddler who comes out of nowhere, disrupting their already stressful lives. The loyal and kind-hearted Gao Han (Bosco Wong) has just lost his legal battle with his ex-wife for custody of their daughter. His ex-girlfriend and first love, Guan Lingling (Shirley Dai), who died in a car accident, has just sent her son to live with him. Gao Han and his two tenants Wang Dongyang (Liu Guanxiang) and Yu Bo (Luo Yunxi) suddenly find themselves becoming nannies to a child, Dudu (Zou Zichen). Not only must they look after this little one, they must deal with an even bigger headache- Dudu's aunt Guan Shanshan (Kan Qingzi). While the three grown men busy themselves with raising Dudu, they try to determine the child’s paternity. They undergo a custody battle, as they deal with issues tied in with the return of Han's ex-wife’s Liu Min (Mai Hongmei). Han and Shanshan develop feelings for one an other. To complicate matters, Yu Bo also falls for Shanshan.