On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in...
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of t...
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...
A knife-scarred victim must identify her assailant beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the accused ...
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbe...
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (194...
An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: hi...
The Prophet Joseph Smith is dead, killed by a mob. Enemies of the LDS Church think the church will d...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
Gaga has travelled through time with her ever changing sound, reinventing herself for every album, a...
Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a myster...
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
In "Diana: The Mourning After" Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of "a nation's...