History

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns ...

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi ...

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish ...

Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and ...

Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving ...

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

About the romantic youth of the legendary commander, hero of the Civil War G.I.Kotovsky (1881-1925). An inexperienced fighter against landlord arbitrariness becomes a professional ...

A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.

Depicts events around the rise and fall of Queen Nefertiti.

In 1662, ten years after the Fronde, King Louis XIV, then aged 24, was still feeling the insult. When the name of Baron de Fargues came to his ears, the king unleashed a blind vengeance ...

This story is centering around a Ming Dynasty brothel that steams with secret erotic myths, trysts and twists of pleasurable indulgence. A shaw production

Adaptation of the text of Azorin theater play. In 1808, Napoleon's troops invaded a village in the Sierra de Madrid. Love triangle between a girl, guerrilla leader and French officer ...

Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God ...

Rajaraja Cholan is a 1973 Tamil film about the life of the Chola king Rajaraja Chola.

A girl who entered the convent pushed by devotion is depraved, marries, betrays her husband and becomes a courtesan.

Operetta concerning the love affair of Niccolò Paganini, the violinist, and Élisa Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon.

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Ottoman governors, Hizir Pasha in particular and as a result was hung by him.

Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn.

This Italian black-and-white film, based on a true story, was originally made for television. It concerns the life and sad end of Evariste Gallois (Mario Barriba), a brilliant student ...

A surrealist translation of Catholic devotional postcard imagery set into unsettling motion. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Illustrates the life of Saturnino Huillca, a peasant union leader, and the motivations that lead the Quechua peasantry to undertake the struggle for their social activists. The events ...