An episode of The "Country Life Stories" Series focusing on idealized or dramatic vignettes of rural living, often featuring the real-life children of the Blackton family.

An idyllic family breakfast in the Tyrolean mountains – or so it seems. Behind the peaceful facade lies a family life full of tensions between closeness and distance, love and envy. A mother for whom harmony within the family is the most important thing, a father for whom tranquility is paramount, and two daughters who seemingly couldn't be any more different.

Fewer families were born, lived, and died in the same place. People, especially young ones, were ready for a new life, as far removed from the old one as possible. Living space was much smaller and there were few, if any, servants. Many wives were working outside the home and leisure was not to be spent doing housework, but in being out of doors as much as possible. Emphasis was on informal living and informal entertaining.

在蒂罗尔州的奥地利山区，一座典型的木屋前，一家人齐聚于此，享受着户外的田园式早餐。他们一边小口抿着咖啡，涂抹着黄油和果酱，品尝着浆果，一边聆听着奥地利杰出作曲家莫扎特的音乐。然而，在微笑的背后，在关爱家人的母亲、慵懒的父亲以及戴着眼镜、神情……的两个女儿之间，似乎隐藏着一些不为人知的事情。

Two tourists on a beach suddenly witness our indifference wash ashore. A film with a different perspective on the anxiety we feel and the dilemma we're faced with when confronted with other people's suffering.

To the modern viewer, it may seem peculiar that there are several movies in which a man sneaks a kiss off a young woman in a darkened railway car, all produced in the first few years of the motion picture.

In this contemporary light adaptation of French writer Guy de Maupassant's tantalising short story entitled "Idylle", the unusual environment of a sweltering railway passenger carriage provides the ideal backdrop for an extraordinary relationship between two perfect strangers. As the train zooms past visually overwhelming landscapes towards its final destination on a bright sultry day, the delicate intrigue and the burgeoning intimacy will soon lead to an unforeseen act of empathy and kindness. Written by Nick Riganas

The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...

Immediately after their wedding, a young family of archaeologists comes to Central Asia for excavations. The plague epidemic that broke out there separates the newlyweds for a while and forces the girl's mother to turn to her ex-husband for help.

When Reed Gallagher, dean of Journalism at Lanholme College, is found dead of asphyxiation in an apparent attempt at autoerotic suffocation, Joanne Kilbourn is pulled into the murky world of kinky sex, academic competitiveness and ruthless ambition.