Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receip...

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices...

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through ever...

An absurd combination of circumstances turns two idle young men into fugitives from the law.

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a fami...

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He ...

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, se...

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unh...

Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revoluti...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...