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.

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law,...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

The film takes place over the course of a single night: the longest night of the year, between Decem...

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

In the wake of the American Civil War, two vampires rise and fight to reclaim their land from the in...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

Where do we come from and where do we go ? The eternal question of humanity which religions have tri...

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

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...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous wit...

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as ...

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl...

One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of he...

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...