Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the Franciscan monastery of Saorge, near the Italian border. But everything changes with the arrival of the beautiful Marianne and a military detachment.

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friend...

Keith Garner visits historical locations, elegant chapels and bustling city centres as he discovers ...

Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists du...

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...

In 1794 Bützow, widow Hornborstel, a top goose breeder, presses Mayor Hane to marry her. Rebuffed, h...

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Jul...

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs t...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...

In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men a...

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th...

In the 18th century, Robert's beloved Helena is forced to marry the cruel Henrik Brest. Robert becom...

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...