England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by…

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it’s learned one of them is gay.

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British…

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others’ needs,…

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert’s death in 1861.

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a…

In Notting Hill’s jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the…

As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him…

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When…

An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents’ Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.

The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo…

After the failure of the Kossuth’s revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run…

An American commando who’s the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and…

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy’s life and the lives of the Japanese people.

In the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as World War II has begun to intensify. She settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start…

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

A former student is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, the student struggles between trying…

Assigned to South America, US official Philip Michael Santore is employed by a counterinsurgency agency. His position makes him a target for a local band of guerrillas, and, before long,…

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.

A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of “making it” in Hollywood.

Press agent “Inky” Ames, in a quandary to publicize showgirl Anitra St. Clair, convinces her to paint a birthmark on her shoulder and pose as millionaire mine owner Theodore True’s…

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade’s secrets.