In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow Sicilians....

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odys...

1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the e...

When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, h...

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who tak...

Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts discip...

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if...

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...

Where do we come from and where do we go ? The eternal question of humanity which religions have tri...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistre...

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old ...

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

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more...

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but ...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by ...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...