Movies and TvShows featuring "antiques" theme.
Modern day treasure hunter, Drew Pritchard is one of Britain's leading architectural salvage dealers, traveling the length and breadth of the country in search of weird and wonderful objects. Drew loves the thrill of the hunt and while he gets his hands dirty in the country's architectural backwaters, a crack team of restorers are back at base giving old and rare finds a new lease of life. We've seen them at work on Salvage Hunters, restoring, repairing and refining Drew's finds but for the first time, Salvage Hunters: The Restorers is going behind-the-scenes with this expert team to see what it really takes to transform junk into gems.
Salvage Hunters follows the adventures of a treasure-hunter and antique collector as he searches for valuable items across the country. With his white van and trusty Jack Russell terrier by his side, he explores Wales and uncovers hidden gems in various locations. Along the way, he meets interesting people, restores antiques, and runs his own antique shop. This educational and non-fiction series showcases the world of antique hunting and restoration.
Antiques Roadshow is a long-running British television series in which everyday people bring their antiques to be appraised by a panel of experts. The show provides a fascinating insight into the world of antiques, as well as the history and stories behind them. Join the excitement of discovering hidden treasures and uncovering valuable antiques.
Inside the Beijing hutongs where professionals who engage in art conservation and restoration live is a story between a museum conservator and a translator. Shao Xue, Zheng Sunian, and Zhang Qi are children of museum conservators. They share many experiences growing up having lived through the SARS epidemic, the death of their loved ones, and the old city being demolished to forge a deep friendship with each other. As they grow up, everyone starts to choose different paths. Influenced by Zheng Sunian's mother, Shao Xue is unwilling to give up the infinite possibilities of the future for the sake of love and leaves home to search for greener pastures. Zheng Sunian inherits the legacy left by his mother to become a conservator-restorer and finds meaning through the preservation of cultural artifacts. Zhang Qi earns the opportunity to study abroad due to his mathematical skills. Before leaving, he decides to bury his feelings for Shao Xue.
In an antique shop, the value of each item is the story behind them. People who sell their belongings here can reminisce on their lives, and buyers see their value hidden within. Six stories about memories, love, dreams and separation are linked to six items.
Research, restore and ready for sale! Bargain Hunt's Christina Trevanion and The Repair Shop's Will Kirk help families turn unwanted items into winning lots.
Antikrundan is the Swedish version of the original BBC format Antiques Roadshow. The show visits different locations in Sweden and lets people bring their antiques to be valued by experts. It remains popular and often has more than 2 million viewers. The 19th season was shown in 2009. Most of the experts have been with the programme since the start. Jesper Aspegren was the original host. He left in 1999 and was succeeded by Anne Lundberg. Antikrundan started out as a coproduction between SVT Malmö and the BBC where the Antiques Roadshow would visit Scandinavia for two programmes. Antikrundan premiered in August 1989 on TV2 and has since been shown on SVT every year. Antiques Roadshow is shown on BBC Lifestyle and TV8 in Sweden.
Qiu Yuan once dreamed of working in heritage conservation, but she had no opportunity to dip her toes into the industry until she meets Qin Zhi Yuan who is the owner of Yuxinzhai. Yuan and Zhi Yuan became acquainted by chance. Zhi Yuan is a legend in the world of conservators. He manages to use Yuan's "rubber board" technology to resolve the crisis at Yuxinzhai but also puts her in danger. They wouldn't have become friends otherwise and from then on, Yuan kickstarts her career in the preservation of cultural heritage with Zhi Yuan as her teacher. Just as Yuan and Zhi Yuan develop feelings for each other, Zuo Huai Ren whom Yuan has crushed for years suddenly returns to China.
In the bustling and noisy modern city, time silently accumulates. Those rare treasures from myths and legends, once lost in the river of time, are now here — in an antique shop called "YaShe". The shop owner, Gan Bizhi, possesses the ability to listen to ancient artifacts, helping them find their destined owners and fulfill their long-held wishes. He befriends a warm-hearted doctor, Su Beilu, and they become close friends. Only the owner knows that the doctor also harbors something extraordinary...
After passing on the shame of the traitor for the grandfather, Wumai's successor followed the training and traced the old dynasty of the antique counterfeiting group, but otherwise, the sympathetic medicine turned to the old dynasty. During the tracing, he learned that the Qingming Shanghe collection in the Forbidden City was a fake. This is a trap set by the Hong Kong auction company Berylian, which intends to monopolize the domestic antique and fake market. Wishing to make a fortune, he had to join forces with Lao Chao Feng, or together with the medicine, and the twists and turns finally proved that the Forbidden City had concealed it as a genuine product. However, Lao Chao Feng Lao Chou did not show up as promised. Wishing and Huang Yanyan have gone through hardships and hardships, competing with the old dynasty for the five cans of blue and white porcelain.
After the death of his father, a man inherits an ancient urn that contains a malevolent wish-granting jinn. As he starts making wishes, he discovers that the jinn's powers come at a great cost, leading him down a path of darkness and horror.
When a single father and his daughter visit a small town, they stumble upon the magic of Christmas with the help of a female elf and the residents of the North Pole.
Bull is a brand new comedy with a unique and quirky sense of humour, featuring the eponymous Rupert Bull (Robert Lindsay), a man who attempts to run his antiques shop aided and hampered in equal measure by his team of dysfunctional staff, Beverley (Maureen Lipman), Faye (Claudia Jessie) and Toby (Naz Osmanoglu).
When a valuable piece of jewelry goes missing at a garage sale, Jennifer Shannon, an amateur detective and avid garage sale shopper, becomes the prime suspect. With the help of her friends, Jennifer must find the real killer before she becomes the next victim.
After finding a dead body at a garage sale, a woman must unravel a mystery to clear her name and find the killer.
Architectural salvage expert Drew Pritchard looks back at the most eccentric characters, the hardest hagglers and the most extraordinary places he's hunted for antique treasure. Drew gives us the inside track on his wheeling and dealing, the stories behind his picks, as well as top tips about salvaging and how to get the best deals.