In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.
Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.
Set in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
Small squad must hold off German attack.
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.
An American destroyer captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.
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.
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.
The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
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 ...
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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 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 ...