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.

James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fa...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

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...

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of...

The life career of Václav Havel (1936-2011), a persecuted playwright and human rights defender in th...

From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up his co...

This long-awaited biopic provides a vivid account of the remarkable life of Anita Mui in and behind ...

A retired farmer and widower in his seventies named Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant b...

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 ...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

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...