In 1863, when a legless, shipwrecked man washes up on the Acadian coast, he's taken to the home of Jean the Corsican, a burly and bitter former soldier, and his childless young wife, Julitte. The man, who is young, handsome, and well-dressed, remains mute as Julitte nurses him back to health. Jean, meanwhile, who is inexplicably estranged from Julitte and an outsider to townspeople, continues his hunt for pirate treasure, rumored to be hidden in a cave by the sea. The treasure is his ticket out of Acadia. As loneliness and Eros draw Julitte and the mysterious Jérôme together, something's got to give.

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...

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

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by...

Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that the...

Before her death, Emma reflects on her life; beginning with her childhood, up through her final year...

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his ...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misb...

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

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

Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a compan...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him...

The musically highly gifted maid Elsie, who longs for a career as a musician, is forced into marriag...