Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. Read More »
History
Il cardinale Lambertini (1954) Giorgio Pastina
In 1739 in Bologna, Archbishop Prospero Lambertini protects the love of Charles and of Countess Isabella Read More »
The Inner Circle (1991) Andrey Konchalovskiy
The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin’s private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator’s death. Read More »
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak Read More »
Burke & Wills (1985) Graeme Clifford
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century. Read More »
Sea Devils (1953) – Raoul Walsh
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. Read More »
Conquest (1937) Clarence Brown
A Polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte’s mistress at the urging of Polish leaders who feel she could influence him to make Poland independent. Read More »
…It Was the Year of Grace 1870 (1972) Alfredo Giannetti
Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Read More »
Summer Crisis (2013) Alain Chartrand
The true story that traces the summer of the future Chénier FLQ cell, at Gaspé, one year before the October Crisis in 1970. Read More »
Lucrezia Borgia (1990) Lorenzo Onorati
After the death of her husband, Countess Lucrezia Borgia seeks to become the first lady of the Kingdom. Read More »