In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war a...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young...

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a l...
A musical re-imagining of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, told from the perspective of Ebenezer ...

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. ...

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits...

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing...

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office...

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a weal...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...