Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Sha...
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a ...
In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map th...
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...
An American veteran travels to the Middle East searching for peace after suffering the horrors of th...
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most elig...
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads th...
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he enco...
A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marri...
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...
Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes f...
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local fun...