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

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
The story, set in 19th century Calcutta during British rule, sees a female prostitute embark on an u...

The gullible buyer Žemla Martin (Francis Smolik) finally opened his dream shop. After a while, you g...

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...

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...

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

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husba...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

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

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

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

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

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to...