A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient f...

After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Pete...

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, ...

A film about peace, love and war. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in ...

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian ...

The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life t...

Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She foll...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...
In early 1900s Surrey, fifty women labeled as typhoid carriers face unjust confinement at Long Grove...

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hosp...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...

In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abiliti...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...