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.

Léo is the two-year old, son of the acting manager of a factory on the brink of closing. When employ...

Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to...

1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the e...

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

When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with ...

1963. The young nurse Anna begins working in the juvenile ward of a mental hospital. There she meets...

A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsivel...

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...
A dramatized account of Denmark's first women's rights activist, Mathilde Fibiger. Based on letters ...

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by...

The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a b...

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that h...

A story centered around a divorced couple living in a southern Chinese city Shenzhen and dealing wit...

In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his ...

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that the...

Santini's Network is a biographical film by German filmmaker Georg Brintrup on the life of Roman mus...