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.

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In 1946, the controversial French writer Boris Vian writes his novel I Spit on Your Graves under the...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

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George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

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Olívia, a fashion executive, and José, a photographer, gets together in Paris, having casual sex and...

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Convicted murderer Clyde Thompson receives the death penalty for shooting two men in Texas in 1928. ...

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