Movies and TvShows featuring "based-on-radio-drama" theme.
Jam is a surreal comedy TV show that combines elements of sketch comedy, satire, and postmodernism. It explores themes of paranoia, distortion, and irreverence through a series of bizarre and nonsensical sketches and monologues. The show features ambient music and musical numbers, creating a unique and entertaining viewing experience. Based on a sketch comedy radio show, Jam takes viewers on a surreal journey that challenges traditional notions of television entertainment.
Returning home after their honeymoon, a couple find themselves haunted by a disembodied head seeking its missing body.
Chandu, a scientist and magician, must save his sister from a mad scientist who plans to take over the world. Along the way, he encounters white slavery, vultures, turbans, and skeletons.
The Green Hornet, a masked vigilante, and his sidekick, Kato, fight crime in their city. They use their martial arts skills, gadgets, and wit to take down gangsters and villains. The Green Hornet, who is also a newspaper publisher, keeps his identity a secret to protect his loved ones. Together, they aim to bring justice and vigilante-ism to the streets.
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.
The meeting of a journalist and a doctor revives the memories of the war where they had first met.
A boy dreams of winning an ice hockey game. Meanwhile, a professional hockey star moves into the neighborhood, offering his services as a goalkeeper--leading two rival teams of Prague schoolboys, The Little Lions and The Devil Street Boys, to fall over themselves in order to gain his favor. The goalie's son, basking in his father's glory, is asked to replace a member of the Lions team, prompting the usual boyish rivalries and battles. Some of the Lions players are so preoccupied with the impending "big game" that their schoolwork suffers, to the chagrin of their teachers and parents.
Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.
Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by the fact that he betrayed his first love Emča and his beloved river Sázava where he spent his childhood and youth. A visit from an old friend Lebeda brings it all back to him. After a nervous breakdown Leopold secretly visits his home instead of going to the spa. A wandering tramp suggest Leopold should bathe in the magical waters of the Sázava, and slowly his youth returns to him.
Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-father with no shortage of family problems.
A modern fairy tale that takes place in the present.
Fok Tats scheme to raid a convoy of government reserve is intercepted by 'Ghost Knight'. Chau Ping, an accomplice of a corrupt official, declares wars on Fok whom he believes has ties with the mysterious raider. A meeting was convened by Ghost Knight to settle the dispute. Tat's son Sze-chuen learnt that his maid Ma Yuk-lan is the daughter of a general of the ousted Ming court who has donned the mask of a knight-errant to protect the son of the Ming minister Sze Ho-fat, Sze-chuen himself. Back in Deadly Valley, an impostor of Ghost Knight was caught. Slashing at the father, Sze-chuen is disheartened to learn that the faker, Ma's mother, has been transferred to the enemy camp in a feigned surrender orchestrated by Sze while an uprising is gathering momentum funded with money robbed from the corrupt official. Ma teams up with the father and son to storm the Chau Fortress and rescue Ma's mother. The couple champions the restoration of the old empire with Sze's seal.