A small Czech town in the 1860s. The townspeople once made a fortune from the proceeds of gold mines that are now flooded. However, they do not want to invest in draining them, as they are convinced that it is not worth it. However, the cessation of mining has plunged the miners' family into poverty. After vain requests for help in the town and the governor's office, the miners decide to take action themselves...

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...

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

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris Wo...

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

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepa...

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supre...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...

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

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a ...

Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win th...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...