An account of the life and work of the Swiss writer Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), the barely known artistic mother of Heidi, her brave alpine heroine, who was first introduced to the world between 1880 and 1881, in a novel published in two parts, and became definitely immortal thanks to an anime series, released in 1974, directed by the Japanese genius Isao Takahata.

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

The early days of the future genius of Spanish cinema Luis García Berlanga, from his birth in Valenc...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...
Dramatization of the life of legendary transgender cabaret and drag performer Marie-Pierre Pruvot, a...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

George Clinton's somewhat absurdist take on Parliament-Funkadelic history. Features never-before-gra...

Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

We are in the mid-60s, when a very young Mariele Ventre gave birth to the very first formation of th...

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic ...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...