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Caravaggio
Caravaggio
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Caravaggio 1986
Good Morning, Night
Good Morning, Night
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Good Morning, Night 2005
Cliff Walkers
Prime Video
Cliff Walkers
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.
Cliff Walkers 2021
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scraping together food and drink with various scams. Emperor Nero's wife, the beautiful Poppea, takes an interest in Ottone, who after a short stint as a gladiator gets a region to manage and an army of his own to command, all the while assisted by his best friend and partner in crime Savio.
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor 1972
12 Mighty Orphans
Starz
12 Mighty Orphans
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
12 Mighty Orphans 2021
Valentino
Valentino
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Valentino 1977
King Naresuan Part: 2
Prime Video
King Naresuan Part: 2
Prince Naresuan is now the crown prince of Ayutthaya and the king of Burma is dead. While the new Burmese king is waging war, the crown prince plots to assassinate Naresuan. Hearing this, the prince decides to evacuate Thais out of the Burmese capital and declare that Siam will no longer bow to Burma. The war for the kingdom's independence begins.
King Naresuan Part: 2 2007
David and Bathsheba
David and Bathsheba
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
David and Bathsheba 1951
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men." Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge is Part two of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge 2011
Lost Girls
Lost Girls
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.
Lost Girls 2020
Gurkha: Beneath the Bravery
Gurkha: Beneath the Bravery
A psychological war drama inspired by true events of Rifleman Kulbir Thapa, an inexperienced soldier goes through an incredible journey that eventually cements his name among the legendary Gurkha warriors.
Gurkha: Beneath the Bravery 2022
VHS Revolution
Freevee
VHS Revolution
Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.
VHS Revolution 2017
Cimarron
Cimarron
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
Cimarron 1931
John Rabe
John Rabe
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
John Rabe 2009
Fort Apache Napoli
Fort Apache Napoli
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Fort Apache Napoli 2009
The Keeper
Prime Video
The Keeper
The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
The Keeper 2018
The Bushido Blade
The Bushido Blade
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.
The Bushido Blade 1981
The Rising Hawk
Prime Video
The Rising Hawk
During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains against Mongolian invaders.
The Rising Hawk 2019
The Flowers of St. Francis
Max
The Flowers of St. Francis
In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.
The Flowers of St. Francis 1950
Kolberg
Kolberg
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
Kolberg 1945
Amina
Netflix
Amina
In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom. Based on a true story.
Amina 2021
Emmanuelle: Queen of French Erotic Cinema
Emmanuelle: Queen of French Erotic Cinema
France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema attendance: the story of the creation of a sensual epic that marked a turning point in the struggle for sexual emancipation.
Emmanuelle: Queen of French Erotic Cinema 2021
They Shot the Piano Player
They Shot the Piano Player
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.
They Shot the Piano Player 2023
The War Lord
The War Lord
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.
The War Lord 1965
The Way of the Wind
The Way of the Wind
A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.
The Way of the Wind 1
Yellow Jack
Yellow Jack
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
Yellow Jack 1938
Olga
Olga
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
Olga 2004
The Best Years
The Best Years
Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
The Best Years 2020
World’s First Battlefield
World’s First Battlefield
World’s First Battlefield 2024
Chouans!
Chouans!
Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy restauration. The civil war divides also the family of the Count Savinien de Kerfadec, a liberal and generous noble and a flying machines inventor.
Chouans! 1988
The Attorney
Freevee
The Attorney
In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful attorney in Busan specializing in tax law. His views regarding civil liberties are changed by student activist Park Jin-woo. When Jin-Woo is brutally tortured and put on trial for his activism, Woo-seok decides to defend Jin-woo as his client.
The Attorney 2013
Sunset
Prime Video
Sunset
In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.
Sunset 2019
Hunger
AMC+
Hunger
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
Hunger 2008
Liberté
Liberté
1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the legendary Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign. Their mission is to export libertinage, a philosophy of enlightenment founded on the rejection of moral boundaries and authorities, but moreover to find a safe place to pursue their errant games, where the quest for pleasure no longer obeys laws other than those dictated by unfulfilled desires.
Liberté 2019
Eight Men Out
Prime Video
Eight Men Out
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Eight Men Out 1988
Tatuajes en la memoria
Tatuajes en la memoria
A boy from Ayacucho becomes an orphan and, following his older brother joins the Shining Path, where he is trained in violence. Captured by the Army, he finds a second chance as a soldier.
Tatuajes en la memoria 2024
The White Countess
Prime Video
The White Countess
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
The White Countess 2005
Francofonia
Francofonia
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
Francofonia 2016
LBJ
Prime Video
LBJ
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
LBJ 2017
The Secret Invasion
Prime Video
The Secret Invasion
During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.
The Secret Invasion 1964