A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiancé, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing village to await the next ship back to Denmark. There she enters into a tense and often confrontational relationship with Jens, a quiet moody Dane who manages a trading company outpost. Meanwhile, Jens is trying to persuade a Greenlander named Pavia to become a company fisherman, despite Pavia's fear of alienating his fellow villagers and upsetting the spirit, Qivitoq.

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he...

Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

During the summer on their Grandfather’s land Johanna, Robert, Harald and Alex begin a secret journe...

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while i...

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...

A scientific researcher, sent on a government study: The Lupus Project, must investigate the possibl...

A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City...

As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges f...

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defe...

Live to tell the truth. What can one man do against the most lethal army on earth? Local fishermen/s...

Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Prote...

A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase...

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...

Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's co...

In the arctic, as Saiva is being born, a shaman declares that she is evil and will bring harm to all...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

Episodes about different stages of relationships: from flirtation to falling out of love.

Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women...