In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.
Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.
Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.
A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
In 19th century Japan, a rough tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
While vacationing on a remote Scandanavian island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.
American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, ...
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.
In prison four long-sentence inmates planning an elaborate escape cautiously induct a new inmate to join in their scheme which leads to distrust and uncertainty.
A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance.
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.