The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. Read More »
Biography
We Children from Bahnhof Zoo AKA Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981) Uli Edel, Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother Read More »
George Wallace (1997) John Frankenheimer, Richard Yett, Gary Sinise, Mare Winningham
A story about former Alabama governor George Wallace, whose views on racial segregation put him against the US government Read More »
The Bronte Sisters AKA Les soeurs Brontë (1979) André Téchiné, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor Read More »
I, Claudius (1976) Herbert Wise, Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Siân Phillips
This mini-series follows the history of the Roman Empire, from approximately the death of Marcellus (24/23 B.C.) Read More »
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) William Dieterle, Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter Read More »
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly AKA Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) Julian Schnabel, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze
Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby – Jean-Do to his friends – awakens not knowing where he is. Read More »
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) Gabriel Pascal, Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger
Cleopatra hasn’t been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Read More »
The Mouth of the Wolf AKA La bocca del lupo (2009) Pietro Marcello, Vincenzo Motta, Mary Monaco, Franco Leo
Pietro Marcello directs this genre-defying Italian docudrama that follows mustachioed ex-con Enzo Read More »
Rey (2017) Niles Atallah, Rodrigo Lisboa, Claudio Riveros
In 1860, a French lawyer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia. And he did just that. Or so it seems. Read More »