A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...
Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...
Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaim...
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
An indentured Chinese laborer, brought to Japan to work in a coal mine during WWII, manages to escap...
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na...
The film traces the life of Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe, a Zeybek (active as an outlaw in the region enclos...
Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the...
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into ...
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-...
Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archi...
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...
The singer Dalva de Oliveira and the composer Herivelto Martins lived intensely on the stage and in ...
With this performance of the Missa solemnis Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Honorary Guest Conductor of the Ro...
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous wit...