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A journey through the history of Wrexham AFC, exploring why promotion to the Football League under Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney means so much to fans.

Despite the fact that there have been many changes over time in the way anorexia is viewed on a societal, cultural and medical level, the condition remains an enigma. For centuries, descriptions and interpretations of the condition - some conflicting, some complementary - have followed on from one another. This illness of mind and body resists any exclusively biological or exclusively psychoanalytical approach. The body, which becomes a battleground, bears the brunt of this relationship and dependency disorder.

Set during the political upheaval following Ayatollah Khomeini's rise to power in Iran, Les Blair's gripping work tells the story of Shahin Mohamedi, a young Iranian woman studying in London. When the cheques her father sends from home are intercepted by the Khomeini government, she is threatened with repatriation by vicious British immigration officers. To remain in England she must be granted 'Leave To Remain'. Enter Jimmy Johnstone, an English wide-boy strapped for cash and willing to perform the paper marriage that will ensure Shahin's freedom. Jimmy wants to build on the relationship, but Shahin's heart is a thousand miles away with her old fiance.

Katharina and Elena are best friends. After a year of training in Canada Elena has now returned to Bavaria - with her Canadian fiancé Tom. Elena's father would rather be marrying down-to-earth Markus. But he is with Katharina. But then Katharina and Tom fall in love.

Brian Jessel, a civil servant in the Cabinet Office, is asked to investigate the mysterious death of the civil servant Stephen Summerchild twenty years earlier. Summerchild was working on a Cabinet project, under the Oxford philosophy don Elizabeth Serafin, to find the "quality of life" in Britain. Jessel finds a box of audio tapes from the project containing all the discussions up to the time Summerchild fell off the Admiralty Building.

Jonas has had enough of his excesses and love affairs, which is why he wants to build a solid life as a construction worker in his friend's company. But he hasn't reckoned with strip club owner Victor Varona, who recognizes Jonas' seductive stripper qualities in his sweaty construction work. It comes as it must: Jonas gets into the business and starts swinging his hips at night until he falls in love with his son's soccer coach...

A remarkable guided tour through the culinary world of Elvis Presley, in his later years famed as much for his appetite as for his music. The King's passion for food is recounted by close friends, relatives and personal cooks who share the recipes that kept their idol happy. From the squirrel and raccoon dishes of his youth to the fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches that contributed to his demise.

Jacques, Dominique, and their children go on vacation to their house in the Cévennes. Once there, the couple meets Rod and Melanie, two Americans who are passionate about caving. Together, they set off to explore a cave. A series of supernatural events will turn their stay into a real nightmare.

Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.

Freddy dreams of becoming a soccer star, but he doesn’t have the age or the talent. But when the best player is hurt and has to sit out, Freddy gets a chance to prove himself.

Perpetuate a series of murders against members of the aristocratic family Decker. Laura, married to one of them and the city attorney will investigate laboriously trying every means to discover the murderer who has outstanding debts with the family.

Although the new head of the cultural department is trying his best and wants to spice up city life in terms of culture, neither the new musical nor a play bring the desired success at the City Theatre.

Shortly before Christmas, the major baker Johann König had a fatal accident. He is the father of three daughters, who came from three different mothers and are in constant quarrel with one another.

Flight Number 884 is a film about the wishes and desires of Muslim immigrants. Every year thousands of bodies of Turkish immigrants are flown back from Europe to small villages - villages they had left long ago. The film follows the dead body of a Muslim on its last journey from Vienna to a graveyard in Turkey.

Ever since she helped him arrest his archenemy Goran Tonka, "Butsch" has felt responsible for Sandra. Now her roommate is found dead. Killed in a deep cauldron of the old Görlitz yeast factory. What's worrying is that the dead woman is wearing Sandra's jacket and for days she hasn't just been being watched, she's felt threatened. Is Goran Tonka on a vendetta and accidentally caught the wrong woman?

A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, was accused of keeping a disconcerting and shameful silence.

Dogs are like their owners - grey-hounds are nasty, staffords are for fighting. You can't blame the dogs - it's nature.

The old and eccentric Ebenezer Scrooge is a misanthrope and miser. His only friend was his business partner Jacob Marley, who died on Christmas Eve seven years earlier. Since then, Ebenezer has been running the business alone. Christmas is just around the corner again, an abomination for the hard-hearted misanthrope. So he not only rejects his nephew Fred, who invites him to Christmas dinner, but also everyone who asks for alms. When Mr. Scrooge comes home on Christmas Eve, he is astonished to find Jacob Marley, his deceased business partner, waiting for him. He is not the only guest; three more ghosts follow. A night that Ebenezer will never forget lies ahead of him.

After the brutal massacre by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, the worst act of bloodshed against Jews since World War II, anti-Semitism has reached a new qualitative dimension worldwide, including in Germany: arson attacks on synagogues, Star of David markings on front doors, graffiti on Holocaust memorials, well-attended demonstrations with anti-Israel slogans and shouts of "get out of here" at German universities by supposedly left-wing extremists, whose blatant threatening gestures and threats of annihilation are more reminiscent of the views of their Nazi grandfathers. Where is the state taking consistent action against such hostilities and where is the loud protest from the middle of society? Is Jewish life still safe in Germany? The documentary film has followed four German Jews in their fight against hatred over the last three months since the massacre and lets them report on their experiences.

A nurse abandoned by her lover and a laid-off worker give themselves over to the hustle and bustle of the big city in their loneliness and search for communication. A telephone misconnection causes them to meet for a few minutes, only to lose each other again immediately.

The life of the successful competition rider Andrea Bruckheim gets out of hand when her favorite horse Magic collapses dead in a competition. She can not really get help from her husband Thomas because marriage has been suffering for some time. To keep the joint operation - a successful riding school with adjoining hotel - running, Thomas engages his childhood friend Hans Duwe as a riding instructor. But Hans witnessed Andreas accident and fell in love with her immortal. Andrea is not averse to his advances.

The arias of La traviata are instantly recognisable. Yet at its London premiere in 1856, it was denounced for bringing 'the poetry of the brothel' to the stage and unleashing uncomfortable truths on Victorian society.

The Hobeditz farmer, threatened with ruin, is promised 53 million euros as an inheritance when his will is opened. The only condition: He is to revive the custom of hobeditzing in memory of his grandfather. The only problem: there is no one far and wide who can remember the Hobeditz...

She gets short of breath from incense cleansing rituals, dream diaries, wish lists that are supposed to be thrown into the fire bowl and other such esoteric hocus-pocus. At a winter solstice party thrown by her older sister Svea just before Christmas, the more rational climate researcher Liane encounters a world that is foreign to her. The scientist meets Mani, who is walking the spiritual path and who somehow fascinates her despite all the differences. Her relationship with her long-time boyfriend Philipp is less good. After an argument, he flies to Gomera alone. She stays behind, not only worrying about the weather being far too warm, but also has to put up with her Christmas-crazy neighbor and his family and receive her conspiracy-obsessed in-laws-to-be while Mani stays overnight with her. On Christmas Eve, fate and the weather really start to shake up Liane.

D-3 before the big day when Jean-Pierre and Marjorie will (finally) say "I do" in the Basque Country at the parents of the future groom. But the organization of Roxane, which seemed to be regulated like music paper, is going to be largely disturbed by a crescendo of unforeseen events in any kind.

It is the mid-1980s. The economy has not improved. For 17 years Professor Frank Merrick has been ensconced in a research lab of a provincial university working on a cure for the common cold. He is very near success. Can he avoid becoming yet another victim of the eternal cutbacks?

Luisa loves her teaching profession and is popular with her students because of her fresh teaching methods. But shortly after she refused to give a student a high school recommendation, a nude photo of her appears on her school's website. Her life becomes a gauntlet. Nowhere is she safe from sexual reprisals, her elementary school leaves her on leave and the police investigation leads nowhere. Then the young woman disappears. Traces in her house indicate a violent crime. Was Luisa the murder victim after the infamous slander?

Rome, 1977. Luciano Baccarini, married to the rich Irene Oro, is murdered at home while preparing a romantic dinner on the terrace for his lover. The investigations immediately focus on the man's private life.

All food can be adulterated. More discreet than a drug cartel, more elusive than arms dealers, criminals have taken over food. Olive oil, fish, meat, spices, no department escapes their juicy traffic. A jackpot estimated in Europe at 30 billion euros enriches a new kind of mafia every year. Organized crime is selling altered products in restaurants, supermarkets and all food shops in the European Union. Their secret is to replace an ingredient with a cheaper one. Who are these new traffickers? What are their methods of operation?

This drama comes from one of Germany's greatest contemporary directors, Peter Lilienthal; and is one of the few to be released outside of the country. It is the story of an Israeli poet's struggle to create in an inhospitable environment. The poet is suffering from severe writer's block and much of the film centers upon the reasons why. Among those reasons is a brother blinded during the Yom Kippur War, the drawn out illness and subsequent death of his wife, and the simpleton son she bore before she became ill. Most of the time the poet blames his son for his inability to write; the father resents having to care for him night and day but he refuses to institutionalize the lad.

The director of "Normal" recounts the film's genesis and production, reflecting on the ethics of the gaze and how, in just a few years, the struggles for inclusion and rights have seen their scope narrow and must, day after day, face new widespread violence.

With its 33,000 kilometers of marked trails and its tens of thousands of kilometers of off-trail circuits, Québec is a snowmobile paradise. In this documentary, a dozen French tourists, accompanied by their flamboyant guide, live an incredible adventure in Quebec's wilderness.

Maya lives in Argentina and works at Fernando's restaurant, the man who raised her like a daughter, along with her mother, Ramona, who died a few years ago. Maya often performs at the restaurant and is acclaimed by everyone for her beautiful voice. She has the opportunity to participate in an important singing festival in Italy, but this provokes a very negative reaction from Fernando. Maya's real father, whom she has never met, is Italian, and he was undoubtedly a source of suffering for Ramona and Fernando. However, Maya decides to leave anyway; she cares too much about her future as a singer and doesn't want to miss this opportunity. Thus conflicts erupt and old resentments surface.

It has been over 20 years since Maren Bertram left her parents' farm after a bad argument with her father Maximilian. At the time, she blamed her father for her mother's tragic death. Now the successful investment banker returns to her small Bavarian home village. After all these years, she finally wants to reconcile with the old stubborn man, but that is easier said than done. The fact that Maren's childhood sweetheart Johann seems to be involved in the impending forced sale of the farm doesn't make things any easier.

How to make a film about a writer? How to show in pictures the work of a man who insists on disappearing? Several thinkers comment on the figure and work of a key intellectual in 20th century literature and thought.

A man and his ship are sunk in Lake Constance and the dead man's son is missing. For the detectives, he is the prime suspect. Until an anonymous tip-off about a prisoner hidden in a box turns up...

In the women's cancer ward of a large Glaswegian hospital, a group of patients share their hopes and dreams for the future

In 1939 a French policeman (Jacques Martin) is forgotten on a Polynesian island, during an administrative tour. When war broke out, he knew nothing about it and it was only when a German ship called that he learned of the gravity of the events. On the tone of comedy, this drama describes the relationship between this ex-policeman still imbued with administrative stupidity and the naive but joyful population of the island. The comedy prevails over the drama and the gendarme will not take long to acquire the joie de vivre of the natives.

A 1-hour Documentary looking at the Manchester post-punk group and its infamous leader Mark E Smith. The Film follows the current band recording their final Session for the John Peel Show (they were his favourite group and recorded more sessions than any other band) as well as chronicling the chaotic history of the band & its numerous line-up changes.

An analysis of The Magic Mountain, a novel by the German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955), published in November 1924.

From Pouziou les Trois Galoches to the Isle of Beauty, it’s just a step… Invested with a supernatural power transmitted by the ghost of his father, Christian foresees a future murder in a premonitory dream. A certain Pasqualini, a clementine producer in the Aléria region, will be assassinated in seven days. But how to apprehend the murderer of a dead man who is not dead? Thanks to the legendary common sense and tyrannical nature of Maria, ready to annoy all the Corsicans to save one, and the rare flashes of genius from her big oaf of a son Christian. It’s just as well if, in the process, they have to immerse themselves in local customs, disguise themselves as bandits, try Corsican polyphonies, or force Christian to eat brocciu.

Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato's work, directed by José Luis Cuerda Juan Pablo Castel, a moderately famous painter, visits Larrea's office to tell him how he met María Iribarne at a painting exhibition. He recounts why he followed her upon realizing she understood his painting, and why he killed her after months of searching, finally establishing contact with her and experiencing a passionate and tumultuous love affair.

Jean is shocked: he and Kathrin are light-skinned, their baby looks dark.

The story of a Franco-Belgian family living in Japan from 1927 to 1947, a time of prosperity and fortune, but also of political turbulence and war.

Rome. Paola Angeli, a young psychiatrist, following her recent separation from her husband Alberto Salvi, a crime reporter, moved to an apartment overlooking a large courtyard, overlooked by a series of other buildings. It is Christmas. The city is becoming depopulated. Even the courtyard that Paola sees from her windows during long sleepless nights seems uninhabited apart from the few remaining tenants. One morning, not far from Paola's condominium, the body of an unidentified blonde girl is found in a dumpster. Alberto investigates the mysterious crime on behalf of his newspaper. Paola has the impression of having seen a blonde girl with a pair of very showy earrings enter building C the previous night. but Romolo, the building's doorman, excludes him because the tenants are all away on holiday.

In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awaiting his morning appointment with La Guillotine. His accusers are so afraid of the strength of his popular support that they have imprisoned a decoy to frustrate any attempt to rescue him. A young guard must decide if his prisoner is the real Danton - and whether it is too risky to help him.

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist