World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a two-part 1973 West German science fiction television serial broadcast on ARD. Shot on 16 mm film, the two-part miniseries is drected by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who co-writes the screenplay with Fritz Müller-Scherz, based on Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel Simulacron-3. In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr Fred Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.

Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, the story of the first c...

Æon Flux is set in a bizarre, dystopian future world. The title character is a tall, leather-clad se...

Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Ch...

Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people an...

Members of a secret society chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.

In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers wo...

Set in 1820 against the forbidding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors, the story follows the journe...

Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is fou...

Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and...

Our World War is a gripping factual drama series offering viewers first-hand experience of the extra...

A socially awkward detective who deals better with data than people is assigned to work on a missing...

Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father ...

Farmers Maria and Martin wish to adopt a boy from an orphanage and are surprised to receive Anna sen...

The Driver is a three-part British crime drama serial aired on BBC One between 23 September and 7 Oc...

Humanity has advanced to great heights since it obtained the information technology known as "Mana."...

Three-part biopic of the Liverpudlian songbird who would later find fame and fortune. It tells of he...

French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

Aoba lives on Midorijima, a small island to the southwest of the main islands of Japan. He lives wit...

Inspired by the historical events of 1666 and with the decadent backdrop of King Charles II’s court,...

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as...