In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
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...
In 1904, the struggle against the landlords is gaining momentum. The peasants come to the landlords ...
Dreaming of creating a Czech musical theater, not recognized in his homeland, Josef Navratil, under ...
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in tran...
An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In ret...
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a ...
Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmo...
A story of Pepik, an orphaned boy recently adopted by foster family.
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...