An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
A 16th century prince falls in love with a court dancer and battles with his emperor father.
During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.
A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.
A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.
In 1942, a Polish prostitute is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice despite the ongoing atrocities committed during WWII.
Small squad must hold off German attack.
Set in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
The World War II story of the British Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.
When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.
Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Three middle-aged distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring bourgeois lives and get in contact with one of Count Dracula's servants, Lord Courtley. In a ...
An American destroyer captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow/widower. Each is slow ...
The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.