This adaptation of the novel A Battle of Nerves by the great Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon stars Charles Laughton as the famous Detective Maigret. The film, set in Paris, climaxes in a spectular scene atop the Eiffel Tower.

On this episode of Camera Three, Jim Macandrew, Mary Ellen Bute, and William Tindall discuss the novel Finnegan's Wake and the film Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

Ex-lovers reunite when they both become stranded in an airport overnight. They find themselves drawn together to revisit their past to discuss what could have been and what may happen in the future.

Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self amid a war within a...

The classic of German silent cinema is a fine (though very loose) adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello. It stars two legendary German actors: Emil Jannings as Othello and Werner Krauss as the evil Iago.

A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...

This 73-minute television adaptation of King Lear stars the great Orson Welles in the title role. The play was condensed by omitting the characters Edgar and Edmund entirely to focus on Lear himself.

Taming of the Shrew is a comedy that pit's headstrong Kate against domineering Petruchio in a witty battle between the sexes. Part of an internationally acclaimed series, Taming of the Shrew is one of twelve Shakespeare works presented as animated masterpieces, reaching a vast new audience.

This acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen's most famous novel stars the great Laurence Olivier as Darcy, who first scorns and then falls in love with the charming Elizabeth Bennet, played by Greer Garson. The New York Times called the production "a crisp and crackling satire".

This television adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's classic comic play Henry IV aired in 1949, A fall from a horse leaves a modern aristocrat convinced he is actually Henry IV of medieval Germany. The man's family caters to his fantasy for 20 years, until a doctor comes to cure him of it.