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.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out...

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 New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting ...

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon ...

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

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

Jancsi is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, ...

13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen, and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free ...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps pain...

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...

Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear a...