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

In 1904, the Kazakh wrestler Hajja Mukan, inspired by the successes of the Russian hero Ivan Poddubn...

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

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

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

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. ...

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 ...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

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...

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...