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

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as ...

Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a...

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hu...

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and f...

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing wo...

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. ...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aid...

The young Friedrich Schiller begins his life as a poet with a dramatic escape. After the sensational...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic vic...

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to...

In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits...

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing...

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedde...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...