Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in...

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business a...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of...

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boa...

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from ...

When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John ...

On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety is...

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death...

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Inde...

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly pa...

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement ...
A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfor...

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressiv...