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

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the ...

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...

Fatima, a teacher living her elite life in Karachi, shattered, when her nanny Nusrat, inexplicably d...

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

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loo...

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...