Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the ...
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in th...
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being acc...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence...
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby...
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she ...
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on ...
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by ...
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 ...
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...
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...