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

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 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 ...

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

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...

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. ...

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepa...

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

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

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...