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.

Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, a...

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as ...

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

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with ...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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...

In the 18th century, Robert's beloved Helena is forced to marry the cruel Henrik Brest. Robert becom...

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances s...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

The gullible buyer Žemla Martin (Francis Smolik) finally opened his dream shop. After a while, you g...

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic li...

Štefan Padych loses a lawsuit against Šulgan, a local innkeeper to whom he owes money. Not wanting h...

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

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...