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.

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 touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an ...

A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.

Somewhere in the north-east of France, Eric, a penniless man who lives in his car, rejects his son E...

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

In an idyllic Italian village, a young American girl on the threshold of adolescence is swept into a...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...
A musical re-imagining of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, told from the perspective of Ebenezer ...

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her ...

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accoun...

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendet...

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

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

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