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

A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka wa...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

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

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business a...

Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to b...

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as h...

Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. ...

Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in southern Italian town of Gioia Tauro...

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.