John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the true meaning of freedom.
Taro planter Lui's grief for his dead wife has infected his whole life. A chance meeting with a stra...
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them...
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na...
Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his mast...
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he enco...
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a s...
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shr...
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a ...
When Pharaoh Rameses II begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Israelite Moses, called up...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
The sequel to 1956's "Liane, Jungle Goddess" finds the title character still a jungle goddess, but c...
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand....