The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are...

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from ...

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

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The fil...

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

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamil...

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

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

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their...

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

The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marri...

In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woma...

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...