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A weekly anthology of inspiring stories, featuring the life experiences of famous personalities – and ordinary people – who loved and lost on their way to success.

Out of the Unknown

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.

Boys Who Cook

By the seaside in a quiet Japanese town, there is a remarkable guesthouse. Its owner is a cook like no other. She is a veritable walking encyclopedia of recipes. When guests come to stay at the guesthouse, breakfast is always the most important meal. But there’s a twist: It is not the owner who cooks the breakfast – it’s the guests!

Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle

Nagumo Shuuji, a social studies teacher at Mie Prefecture’s Etsuzan Senior High School, was a former baseball player up until university when he quit after sustaining an injury. Thereafter, he worked as a sports trainer but returned to university at 32 years old in order to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher. However, his peaceful daily life goes through a change after he’s appointed to be the advisor of his school’s baseball club that is on the verge of abolition.

Black Familia: The Shindo's Revenge

The story revolves around a grand "impersonation" revenge plan carried out by the entire family against a businessperson who leaked a fabricated video of their second daughter engaging in "papa-katsu" (a form of compensated dating) with her male teacher, which led to public condemnation and her subsequent suicide.

Boys with Secrets

Three years ago, in order to save his childhood friend and unrequited love, Yoshino Yuki, a high school student named Mitsuishi Reiya became a nocturnal being who attacks people and slurps their blood. , he meets boys who live in the darkness of the night, hiding the fact that they are nocturnal. In order to escape the violence of night hunting, hide from the public eye, and fight back against their bloodlust without attacking others, they gather at a live house, form a band called 404 not found, and become passionate about music. Each of the members has a history of traveling at night under harsh conditions, and the members sing with a sense of force, expressing their feelings of having nowhere to go in their music. Reiya, who has become a member of such a band, is relentlessly targeted by Kurose Takumi, the leader of the night hunters who hate night hunting.

ONE DAY ~It's Wonderful Christmas Ado~

Three people come from different backgrounds and face their own troubles. Their fate leads them to face each other as their destinies become intertwined.

Yuria's Red Thread of Fate

Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day her world is turned upside down when husband has a subarachnoid hemorrhage and upon arriving at the hospital, Yuria is met by a tearful young man who announces that he is her husband's lover.

American Horror Story

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

Every Precious Moment

The Jazz Age

An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One.

Angels with Broken Wings

A miniseries starring famous actresses, based on the short story collection "Tsubasa no Oreta Tenshitachi" by the author Yoshi. This dark drama has a different story for each episode, as the name of the series "Angels With Broken Wings" hints, the common theme is women who have lost their way in life. The series touches subjects like prostitution, peer pressure, gambling, theft and isolation.

Muddy Dining Table

Nejiki Mia is a supermarket clerk who has very low self-esteem. She believes she has nothing to offer because she was raised by a toxic parent. She suffered physical abuse at the hands of her father, and even after his death, she lived with her mother who has a strong suppressive personality. She affirms herself for the first time when she falls in love and has an affair with the store manager where she works, who is someone that treats her kindly. However, he decides to leave her after his wife’s illness worsens, and Nejiki Mia falls into despair. In order to cheer up her beloved store manager, she begins to take extraordinary actions in order to cure his wife’s illness. Her feelings gradually become parasitic, as she progressively gets close to not only the manager’s wife, but also his son.

Let’s Go to the Cinema Complex!

A comedy drama set at a cineplex in a rural city and it features the people working there. Mizusawa Kenta is the general manager of the cineplex while Nakazuka Kaori is a manager who is transferred to the cineplex from the parent company.

Shockers

An anthology series of horror stories by contemporary British screenwriters.

すべての恋が終わるとしても

After graduating high school, Yuu and Mao begin a passionate relationship that gradually unravels during their long-distance college years, intertwining with seven other characters in a bittersweet ensemble love story spanning youth to adulthood.

The Dead Zone

Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.

Numa Otoko to Numa Ochi Onna no Midnight Call: Nebusoku no Genin wa Jibun ni Aru.

This anthology tells the story of a memoir of women who have fallen deeper and deeper into the charms of bottomless swamp-like men. (Source: MyDramaList)

The Princess Bodyguard’s Love

Meika is the heiress to a massive estate, called the Sanjou Empire. With her high school graduation, she is to marry her bodyguard Akira, and she is starting to think her actual budding romantic feelings are pointing elsewhere, but can that really be true?!

Deaikei Site de 70 nin to Jissaini Atte Sono Hito ni Ai Sona Hon wo Susume Makutta 1 nen no Koto

Nanako Hanada works as a manager of a bookstore. Her bookstore doesn’t have many customers, due to the rise of digital formats. Nanako Hanada and her husband Ken are also on the verge of divorcing. Her work life and personal life are equally in rough shape. One day, Nanako Hanada signs up for online dating site AU×AU and leaves one sentence in her profile, which is "I will recommend a book that suits you right now." Whenever she meets someone in person from the dating site AU×AU, she recommends a book to them.

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

The Romanoffs

An anthology series centered around people who believe themselves to be the modern-day descendants of the Romanov family.

R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour

R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.

Love Story

An anthology of sweeping true love stories that captured the world’s attention.

Night Gallery

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.

Fear Itself

A horror/suspense anthology series directed by the biggest horror directors working in feature films.

Small Axe

An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.

The Hitchhiker

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

Femme Fatales

This provocative hit series tells the stories of dangerous women who find extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival instincts and bringing out their inner guile.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Lore

This anthology series brings to life Aaron Mahnke's titular podcast and uncovers the real-life events that spawn our darkest nightmares. Blending reenactments, animation, archive and narration, Lore reveals how our horror legends – such as vampires, werewolves and body snatchers – are rooted in truth.

Tales from the Darkside

Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.

Masters of Horror

An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror.

Them

A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.

Solos

Anthology series telling character-driven stories set at different moments in time, aiming to showcase that during people's most isolated moments, and in disparate circumstances, the human experience connects everyone.

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

An anthology based on eight short stories by Stephen King in his 1993 collection of the same name.

The Terror

A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.

Castle Rock

Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.

50 States of Fright

A horror anthology series based on urban legends that takes viewers deeper into the horrors that lurk just beneath the surface of America.

The Outer Limits

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.