
Romantic drama about the universal complexity of modern relationships. The story follows three women aged 20 (Lee) 30 (Liu) and 40 (Chang) at different stages of life and love. Set in Taipei, Taiwan against the background of minor earthquakes that the city is experiencing, the women's love lives are as unpredictable and turbulent as the tremors they endure. Xiao Jie (Lee), innocent and impressionable, escapes her overbearing parents for the first time to leave home and follow her dream of a pop music career. Arriving in the city, she befriends a girl her own age, Yi Tong, and under the 'care' of a jaded rock manager, tries to fulfill her ambition. As she experiences the hardships of independence for the first time, her awakening emotions take her into new and risky personal territory. Flight attendant Xiang Xiang (Liu), in her thirties and slightly jaded about love, is caught between a turbulent affair with a married man and a persistent younger lover who she doesn't take seriously. She lives life with a heady mixture of conflict and passion, unaware that a deeper and more fulfilling experience is closer than she thinks. Lily Zhao (Chang) a forty year-old divorcee bravely faces a new life as a single woman while still emotionally supporting all those around her - including her ex-husband. Lily, who looks much younger than her forty years, energetically throw herself into the dating scene with often embarrassing and mostly hilarious results until she meets the suave and eligible Jerry who is inconveniently dating a girl her own daughter's age. Each of the three women come to a realization about themselves through the drama of their relationships and find that their vision of the future is not what they thought it would be...
This is a documentary focusing on a year of life at Saint-Etienne Sur Usson, a nursery school in rural France. The film follows the teacher, Georges Lopez, as he teaches and relates with the children, guiding them towards adolescence. Once they reach the age of 10, the children must leave the school and attend the state school in the local town.
Doctor Who - Vengeance On Varos
The TARDIS must land on the cruel world of Varos, where the descendants of the prison planet are force-fed an endless diet of video nasties and torture and execution are great entertainment. Soon the Doctor and Peri are involved in a deadly game of politics with the Doctor fighting not only for the ore he needs to continue his journey but also for the freedom of Varos.
Student friends Marie (Cecile De France) and Alex (Maiwenn Le Besco) arrive at the remote French country farmhouse owned by Alex's family, intending to use the idyllic retreat as a perfect place to study for their forthcoming exams. But during their first night they receive an unexpected visitor - a knife-wielding, psychopathic trucker. Forcing his way in to the house, the crazed killer butchers Alex's family, and rapes her before tying her up and dumping her in the back of his truck. An unseen witness to the crimes, Marie, manages to elude the intruder and conceals herself in the truck along with her bound friend. As they are driven off into the dark night, the girls begin a bloody journey of unspeakable terror and shocking revelations.
A young girl is rescued from a river following a car accident. She takes a job as a church organist but is haunted by a sinister figure chasing her and finds herself losing touch with reality.
Ultimate Crimes - Dressed To Kill
Three documentaries. Women Who Kill - Alama Rattnebury was first a mistress then wife to Francis Rattenbury. However when she took their chauffeur as a lover Francis was found battered to death. Ulrike Meinhof was a member of the ultra-left Baader-Meinhof gang that terrorised Germany. In 1976 she was found hanged in her cell, but was it suicide? Aileen Wournos is infamous as America's 'worst female serial killer' but were the murders she committed self-defence? Deadly Ladies - Ma Barker was immortalised by Boney M. But who was she and why was she America's Most Wanted female robber? Velma Barfield was a pious Christian who had a drug habit and murdered her husband, mother and friends that she had defrauded. Victims Of Jealousy - Dorothy Stratten was a Playboy model with a jealous husband. One day they were both found dead with blood over the walls. What happened in that locked room. Ruth Ellis was the last woman to hang in Britain. As David Blakely lay wounded on the floor she fired four bullets into him. Did she deserve to die? Jean Harris was 'The Scarsdale Diet Murderess', who shot her lover Dr Herman Tarnower, creator of the famous Scarsdale Diet.
The World of Quest: The Quest Begins
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The Busy World of Richard Scarry: It's a Busy, Busy Day!
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