The story takes place at the time of the defeat of the Hungarian War of Independence, when Csákberény came under the terror of the imperial soldiers. Two priests from the village are arrested overnight for reading the Hungarian Declaration of Independence. Although the Austrian soldiers enjoy their power, they are unable to identify with the repression. The purpose of the trial of a military imprisonment court is to obtain a confession, to prove that a violation of sovereignty has been committed.

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns fro...

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of thei...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the La...

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is ...

In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woma...

The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a mov...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

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

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

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

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as ...

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits...