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The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

An intentionally noncommittal version of the Cuban revolution told through flashbacks, the film recounts Che's switch from doctor to politico in Castro's campaign.

Battle of Britain is a movie starring Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, and Harry Andrews. In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as...

Le chagrin et la pitié is a movie starring Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, and Alexis Grave. An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of Nazi invasion.

A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.

Sayat Nova is a movie starring Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, and Vilen Galstyan. A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

Beatrice Cenci is a movie starring Tomas Milian, Adrienne Larussa, and Georges Wilson. In 16th century Italy, a young noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father, leading to an uproar in the community...

Shinsengumi is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, and Kin'ya Kitaôji. Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to...

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

The Molly Maguires is a movie starring Sean Connery, Richard Harris, and Samantha Eggar. In the Pennsylvanian coal mines of 1876, a group of Irish immigrant workers begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment.

L'enfant sauvage is a movie starring François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol, and Françoise Seigner. In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and...

Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.

Julius Caesar is a movie starring Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, and John Gielgud. The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

The Adventures of Gerard is a movie starring Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, and Eli Wallach. Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during...

Shi san tai bao is a movie starring David Chiang, Han Chin, and Lung Ti. The "iron triangle" of director Chang Cheh and protégés David Chiang and Ti Lung make The Heroic Ones a quintessential action epic, set during the waning years...

Kureopatora is a movie starring Chinatsu Nakayama, Kotoe Hatsui, and Tsubame Yanagiya. In order to foil the enemy aliens' "Cleopatra Plan", three people from the future are spiritually sent back to Cleopatra's time to understand the...

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

Von Richthofen and Brown is a movie starring John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, and Barry Primus. The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German...

Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen is a movie starring Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, and Tetsurô Tanba. Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive...

Il Decameron is a movie starring Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, and Jovan Jovanovic. An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

Er più: storia d'amore e di coltello is a movie starring Adriano Celentano, Claudia Mori, and Vittorio Caprioli. The story is set in Rome in 1900. In a seedy area of the city, Nino Patroni seeks to marry a fellow rogue with his...

La folie des grandeurs is a movie starring Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, and Alice Sapritch. In 17th-century Spain, the Minister of Finance tries to dishonor the queen with an overly complex plan.

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native lan

Fratello sole, sorella luna is a movie starring Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, and Leigh Lawson. Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope,...

Antony and Cleopatra is a movie starring Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, and Eric Porter. After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops...

I racconti di Canterbury is a movie starring Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, and Ninetto Davoli. Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes is a movie starring Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, and Helena Rojo. In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life told in an anachronistic manner.

Investigation into alternative didactic methods and the relationship between independently expressive surfaces and texts. The film is composed of five sequences, each preceded by a quotation.

A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigorô is a movie starring Tomisaburô Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, and Junko Hitomi. In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan...

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires

Il fiore delle mille e una notte is a movie starring Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, and Franco Merli. Ancient Arabia. A youth is chosen by a beautiful slave girl to be her new master; she is kidnapped and they must search for each...

The White Dawn is a movie starring Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, and Louis Gossett Jr.. In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the...

The Four Musketeers is a movie starring Michael York, Raquel Welch, and Oliver Reed. The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

Edvard Munch is a TV movie starring Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, and Kerstii Allum. Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe's most...

A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

During WW2, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.

An 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.

During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.

L'histoire d'Adèle H. is a movie starring Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, and Sylvia Marriott. Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.

Ne'er-do-well Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) into impersonating a Prince.