During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
Commissioned to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire, cartographer Jonathan Green sets...
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
Virtually unseen since its Soviet television broadcast in 1971, the film, Peter Rollberg writes, is ...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impair...
After Port Royal is attacked and pillaged by a mysterious pirate crew, capturing the governor's daug...
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...
A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one wh...
Constance, an aristocrat from the Vendée, and François-Denis, a navy officer 10 years her senior, fa...
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 robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rul...
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete pas...
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris....