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.

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a ...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the dis...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

A restaurant in Moscow is forced to shut shop after they end up ruining a crucial political dinner i...

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

After his twin dies as a baby, the protagonist's family has little hope for his survival. But as he ...

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...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

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.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...