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

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic week...

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...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

After his twin dies as a baby, the protagonist's family has little hope for his survival. But as he ...

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...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

In late XIX century, rich and bored Maria (Paola Senatore) is after a more sexually interesting life...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene:...

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...