The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.

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

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a sup...

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. A...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night h...

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of...

On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare e...

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sig...

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are per...

Ambitious Yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time dr...

At an elite private Border School four students form a clique to sneak out of school after hours to ...

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused...

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son int...

14-year-old Uwe lives in a suburban Hamburg housing estate. Besides trouble, the boy has not much to...

Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen...

Three Greek intellectuals gather for the Great Summoning, a mysterious phenomenon that may take days...

A photojournalist, whose image of a deceased young woman sparks controversy, is kidnapped by the vic...

Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. G...