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.

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic li...

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...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having...

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

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

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky...

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, durin...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist ...

Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotam...

Biopic about legendary Turkmen philosopher and poet, Makhtoumkuli, who was also known as Fragi.

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar...