In the year 1810, the Tyrol is suffering under French occupation. A servant, who believes himself oppressed and disenfranchised by the peasants, dreams of being allowed to play Christ in the yearly Passion Play. Instead, he is forced to play Judas and soon the lines of reality blur: he betrays the location of Andreas Hofer, hidden by the farmers, breaks under the weight of his guilt and suffers Judas' fate.
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne,...
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the ...
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of emp...
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3...
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for h...
Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of...
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir,...
At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 w...
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...