Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble widow who receives a customary purse of gold coins from the enemy tribe that murdered her husband; the gift puts her in conflict with her kinsmen, who want the money to buy back land taken by the enemy in cahoots with French colonials.

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native German...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Ma...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...

John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Cha...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control...

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...

Life in the African country of Mali in the 1990s is vividly highlighted in this mild drama. In the s...