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.

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

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

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

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

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of...

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement ...

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefa...

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans a...

The civil war in China has ruined many lives including General Pang's. A wounded General Pang is sav...

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