His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...
A dramatized account of Denmark's first women's rights activist, Mathilde Fibiger. Based on letters ...

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno t...

While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with co...

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...

Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka k...

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture fra...

A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their me...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

In the 18th century, Robert's beloved Helena is forced to marry the cruel Henrik Brest. Robert becom...

While he's receiving an enigmatic phone call from his girlfriend Francine, Thomas remembers the mile...

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitut...

On a gloomy March 1881, an old, sick man was dying in the Nikolaevsky military land hospital in St. ...