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ANDRIEJ RUBLOW

Director: Andriej Tarkowski

Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.

ASOKA

Director: Santosh Sivan

In India, about 260 BC in the Empire of Magadha, the Prince Asoka (Shah Rukh Khan) survives to many betrayals of his brothers, leaded by the evil Susima (Ajit Kumar), who wants to kill him to inherit the throne. His mothers orders Asoka to leave Magadha, and while traveling, he meets Princess Kaurwaki (Karriena Kapoor) and her brother, Prince Aryan (Sooraj Balaji) from Kalinga, who are undercover and protected by General Bheema (Rahul Dev). Asoka and Kaurwaki falls in love for each other, but the mother of Asoka calls him back to Magadha. When he returns, he does not find Kaurwaki, who was attacked by traitors of Kalinga. When Asoka's mother is killed by a man of Susima, Asoka becomes mad, kills all his evil brothers but Sugatra, who escapes to Kalinga. Asoka decides to conquer Kalinga, but in the end, he concludes that he has not built an empire, but conquered only corpses and destroyed everything, and he decides to spread love and the Buddhism.

BECKET

Director: Peter Glenville

As the story opens, King Henry II, who ruled England from 1154 to 1189 has entered Canterbury Cathedral to do penance at the tomb of his former friend, Thomas Becket. Bare to the waist, the king kneels to receive a flogging from Saxon monks. He begins to reminisce, recalling at first the carefree, promiscuous adventures with Becket, then his favorite drinking and wenching companion. A violently emotional drama that probes the changing relationship between two young men - between two close friends bound together by similar pride of flesh and spirit who become deadly enemies as they pursue their separate destinies . . . that of king . . . and saint.

CALIGULA

Director: Tinto Brass

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.

COURAGE TO LOVE

Director: Kari Skogland

In 19th century New Orleans a new class of colored people has arisen. They are creoles, a result of relations between African-Americans and wealthy European people. Children are born, there is love, but marriage is out of the question. Colored people are still not considered equal. Henriette Delille is a very religious creole. The time she has she spends on educating, care and helping out in church. On the day her father Jean-Baptiste leaves her mother Pouponne to marry a white woman, Henriette is supposed to meet her arranged future 'caretaker' Paul Cartier. But she refuses him, defying every tradition and so bringing her mother to madness. She becomes friends with the French doctor Gerard Gaultier. He is in love with her and wants her to move to France, so they can be legally married. Henriette is torn apart by her feelings for Gerard and her devotion to the church. She must choose, but neither choice is going to be an easy one as there are people who greatly disapprove of Henriette's ideas of breaking traditions.

DAY OF WRATH

Director: Adrian Rudomin

Set in the 16th century, a sheriff working on a series of murders has to choose between his conscience and protecting his family when he's tied to the crimes.

HENRYK VIII

Director: Pete Travis

Two-part TV series documenting the stormy 38-year reign of King Henry VIII.

Ivan the Terrible

Director: Sergiej M. Eisenstein

Distant Russian history serves as an allegory for the Stalin dictatorship in this epic two-part film biography by renowned Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) reigned as... Distant Russian history serves as an allegory for the Stalin dictatorship in this epic two-part film biography by renowned Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) reigned as czar of all Russia in the mid-16th century. The film begins with Ivan's lavish coronation ceremony and follows him through a maze of court intrigue as he attempts to control jealous family members eager to topple his regime and willingly sacrifices his own son in order to maintain power.

JEANNE d’ARC

Director: Christian Duguay

Ten years before her death, Joan hears voices. Six years later, from the village of Domremy, she begins her mission to unite France under King Charles. First she leads a defense of Vaucouleurs against the Burgundians, then obtains safe passage to Charles, the Dauphin. He uses her, as the embodiment of the mythical "Maid of Lorraine," to raise an army, and he sends her to the rescue of Orléans. After Charles is crowned, Joan leads a disastrous campaign in Paris, where her brother dies. Then she's the victim of Charles's manipulations: she's captured in Burgundy, sold to the English, examined by Bishop Cauchon, found a heretic by the Inquisition, and burned at the stake.

JESUS OF NAZARETH

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

A reverent depiction of the life of Christ using the Gospel accounts.

MAN IN THE IRON MASK

Director: Mike Newell

The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.

MARKIZA DE POMPADOUR

Director: Robin Davis

Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious foxy daughter of fishmonger and married to a physician, but witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French Sun King Louis XIV at a costumed ball. She masters the art of seduction well enough to become accepted even by the Queen, corpulent mother of ten. As a sensibly chosen Royal 'favorite' mistress she is soon ennobled Marquise of Pompadour to facilitate her introduction at court. The immature dauphin (crown prince) proves a bitter and unrelenting enemy, joined by his imposed Saxon bride, and his sister at her deathbed. Although friends at court help Pompadour return, her health gives way.

MOSES THE LAWGIVER

Director: Gianfranco De Bosio

NAPOLEON AND ME

Director: Paolo Virzì

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment

NOSTRADAMUS

Director: Roger Christian

Story of the life of the great prognosticator and of his early unwillingness to accept his ability to foresee the future. It is a time of the Black Plague and the Inquisitions, and as a doctor the film depicts his involvement, even to the monarchy of France, with these circumstances.

POMPEII

Director: Giulio Base

Kiedy Marcus wraca z wojny, dowiaduje się, że jego ukochana Valeria została wzięta w niewolę przez miejscowego władcę Pompejów. Chelidone, który po śmierci rodziców Valerii napadł na dom jej i jej brata, zabrał cały majątek, a ich samych uczynił swoimi niewolnikami. Podczas próby uwolnienia ukochanej, Marcus trafia w środek spisku, którego celem jest zamordowanie Rzymskiego Imperatora Tytusa, przybywającego wkrótce do Pompei. Okazuje się, że przywódcą i organizatorem zamachu jest właśnie Childone. Jest on na tyle zdeterminowany, że zabije każdego, kto stanie mu na drodze. Jednak tego dnia – 24 sierpnia 79 roku n.e. wybucha Wezuwiusz i pokrywa lawą i popiołem wulkanicznym całe miasto i wszystkich jego mieszkańców. Tylko Valerii i Markusowi udaje się przeżyć. Dostają drugą szansę na miłość i na odbudowanie tego pięknego miasta.

WSADNIK PO IMENI SMERT

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov

In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.

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