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Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each other. It is not long, however, before a chain of fateful events changes the lives of both families forever.

A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.

A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.

Reassigned to a lowly outpost, a Roman guard's Christian beliefs clash with his gay commander's desire for closeness. Being tortured becomes pleasurable.

Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.

Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere.

On the verge of forced resignation, a strict old-fashioned teacher rethinks his life.

A family's celebration turns dark when a cult demands their land. Refusing to sell, they face curses and violence. With a witch's help, they uncover a secret about their property and fight to protect it from evil forces.

A young woman named Marie, facing oppression and exploitation, begins selling her body, shaking the male-dominated capitalist society of Tellier.

The year is 37 BC. A young Liburnian Volsus is taken by a Roman unit to help in what at first seems a simple task of collecting taxes, but the encounters with local Illyrian tribes soon lead to unexpected turns of events, as they show more resilience to subjugation than meets the eye. We see their archaic, emotional world of quaint and brutal laws and traditions through the eyes of this youngster, regarded by the Romans as a primitive barbarian, and gradually come to understand that their world is not all that different from our own.

Spoofs Merchant-Ivory films: Aunt Agnes (Prunella Scales) tries to force Emily (Georgina Cates) to marry boring Cedric Trilling (Robert Portal) by taking her to Italy and India in hopes will forget about handsome George (Sean Pertwee).

27 year old twin brothers Nathan and Robert live together. After admitting Nathan walked into the woods of danger, things get spooky when Nathan mentions statues appearing, bikes getting stolen and brought to their yard, and teenage girls breaking into people's homes to throw a party and kill the owners.

Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert.

Set in post war Romania, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war is now a police detective and sets about clearing his city of gangsters and black marketeers.

Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of Greek tragedy "Medea".

1936. Sylvia a rich but sterile woman, marries Akos but needs an heir to inherit her father's money. She bribes Irene a Jewish girl to have a child by her husband.

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.

A very visual and profound dramatization of the various sections of Carmina Burana, a symphonic piece composed by Carl Orff about medieval poetry by an anonymous author.

(translated as The Battle of Hermann) is a film based on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest which took place in the year 9 AD between the Romans and the regional Germanic tribes in what is now western Germany. It is presented in German and Latin with German subtitles.

The movie follows from 1209 to 1226 Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of S. Francis.

During a carnival, the two brothers of a poor girl ,who has been impregnated by the son of a well to do farmer, seek vengeance.

A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the did to happen a third time. And yet it does.

A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to be really dead.

An original Latin-language musical comedy about high school life and love. Having just moved to a new town, geeky Barnabus faces his first day at a new high school, and it won't be one he'll soon forget. He meets a popular girl, Bella, befriends the wheelchair-bound Rinaldus, gets bullied by jock Jacobus, and botches his track tryout. How will he deal with his new challenges? This charming tale of love and laughter emphasizes the importance of self-esteem and self-confidence in the face of adversity.