A crossbow marksman who, when he would not bow to Austrian rule, was forced to shoot an apple off his son's head in exchange for freedom. The local overlord who commanded the act noticed that Tell had a second arrow in his quiver, which Tell told him was meant for the overlord...
Inspired by a true story, A DREAM OF RED MANSIONS is an epic tale of love and courage, set against the background of the Chinese cultural revolution. When American photo-journalist Diana Mellors travels to war-torn China in 1949, she is catapulted into a whole new world - a Co...
The biopic focuses on Julia Mullock, an American interior designer who married the last crown prince of Korea.
Mullock met Kyu Lee in New York in the 1950s, after Japanese colonization and subsequent independence had removed the royal family from any official function in...
The story centers on noted Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, who is known for her work in the illusion of control, decision-making and aging theories; the script focuses on a real study Langer conducted in which she reversed the aging process of her subjects by making them be...
Ten years in the classroom have turned a one-time teacher of the year into a defeated, bitter man. A bet from a new teacher to get three of his most problematic students into a top college might be just the thing to restore his love of the profession.
...A young minister returns to his tough town New Jersey neighborhood and forms a gospel choir to keep kids off drugs an away from gangs and violence.
A young boy who, after his parents go missing, is sent to live with an eccentric uncle who turns out to be a crazy wizard known as a wrathmonk. Before the boy knows it, he is shrunk and banished to be a villager in his uncle's toy train set and must figure out how to survive i...
A story of gangsters in 1950's Cuba based on T.J. English's New York Times bestseller.
It centers on a group of mainly American gangsters in Batista's Cuba, particularly Meyer Lansky, who run the freewheeling country's casinos, nightclubs and other debaucherous businesse...
The story is based on the subject matter of the documentary "Ring of Fire" which was about the real life match between Emile Griffith and Benny 'Kid' Paret who fought three times.
Film based on the true story of an "American Idol"-like singing contest held in an Arizona jail. Bret Kaiser, a heavy-metal musician-turned-detention officer at Arizona's Tent City, the fourth-largest jail in the country. Kaiser, whose life rights are part of the package, rall...
Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
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A remake of the stage and movie musical, that was taken from Damon Runyon's short stories that captured the rogue gangsters and gamblers of the 192...
"Separate Lies," is written and directed by Academy Award winning screenwriter, Julian Fellowes and marks his directorial debut. Emily Watson ("B...
It's 1991, the USSR is gone and the Cold War is over, but one man has yet to find out: on the space station Mir, Sergei (Hector Noas), the last Sov...
