In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.

1780, a group of slaves flee from a sugar cane hacienda. As they are pursued by Don Manuel Aguirre,...

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up...

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is...

In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his...

A lawless poacher wants to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, so he kidnaps the boy who knows...

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a s...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud ...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

The romance of an engineer who plans the construction of a highway that will cross a town in Patagon...

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thin...

Salvador, Bahia, January 1835. After more than a decade of hard work, Guilhermina, 27, a slave of Mu...

Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in...

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to co...