Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.

The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose fr...

A group of theatre performers travel to London and put on a production they hope will repair cultura...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame ...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

The son of the wealthy Signor Della Corba loves one of his maids. Her brothers and father rebel at t...

A man has thrown away love and a woman has given up on love. The two souls meet in a brief summer in...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomi...

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an appar...

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish Englis...