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Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to ...

Popular Hong Kong actress Amy Yip plays Sister Har — a seminal figure in 1960s and ’70s Hong Kong nightlife — in this ...

Set in turn-of-the-century France about an anti-Semitic army officer who challenges the massive government cover-up in the imprisonment of Alfred ...

Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King (Gabino Diego) is stunned to see the ...

In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant ...

A modern-dress adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan tragedy about King Edward II’s homosexual relationship with the ...

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a ...

In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.

A dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation. One of the most pivotal moments in 20th ...

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by ...

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his ...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a ...

Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th ...

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo’s red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a ...

Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It ...

The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays ...

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton’s and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the ...

The title of the film, set in Luxembourg in 1942, during the Nazi occupation, amalgamates the words Schacko (helmet) and chapeau claque (opera ...

China 3000 years ago. It’s the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula ...

On the eve of 1987’s Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died ...

Directed by Al Reinert and with music scored by Brian Eno, “For All Mankind” provides a testament to NASA’s Apollo program of ...

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare’s play about the English King’s bloody conquest of France.

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France’s debt ...

A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the ...

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Based on the ...

Battle of Kosovo (Serbian: Boj na Kosovu) is a 1989 Yugoslav historical drama/war film filmed in Serbia. The film was based on the drama written ...