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

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...

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 ...

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...

The film traces the life of Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe, a Zeybek (active as an outlaw in the region enclos...

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...