The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are never heard from again.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
The film is set in the 1840s. A charming village girl, Rozina, falls in love with a farmhand, Martin...

Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, th...

Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Sec...

When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is S...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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

Andalusia, Spain, 1840. After three years of wandering, Salva, who works as an assistant to a blind ...

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

In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits...

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's...

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Pe...