Voimakastahtoinen Tilly palaa hoitamaan sairasta äitiään pieneen, takapajuiseen kotikyläänsä. Palatessaan paikkakunnalle ensi kertaa sitten lapsuuden, hän on nyt maailmanluokan ompelija ja haute couture -ammattilainen. Samalla kun hänen asunsa saavat kantajansa kukoistamaan, tummuvat välit niiden ihmisten kanssa, jotka aikanaan saivat hänet lähtemään.
Robert Bruce nousee 1300-luvulla Skotlannin valtaistuimelle ja johtaa rajua kapinaa maan itsenäisyyden puolesta valloittajamaa Englantia vastaan.
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
Yhteiskunta on romahtanut ja ainoa laki on vahvimman käsissä. Arlen on nuori nainen, joka karkotetaan Teksasin kuumaan hylkiöiden asuttamaan autiomaahan. Arlen kaapataan kannibaaliyhteisön sisään. Kun pakeneminen ei ole vaihtoehto, joutuu Arlen sopeutumaan yhteiskuntaan ja tarkkailemaan sekä muiden, että omaa käytöstään. Elämä mahdollisena ruokana saa uuden käänteen, kun eräs kannibaali rakastuu Arleneen.
Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness, defining the true spirit of martial arts and also inspiring his nation. The son of a great fighter who didn't wish for his child to follow in his footsteps, Huo resolves to teach himself how to fight - and win.
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Tarina vallasta syöstyn ja karkotetun myötätuntoisen maaherran perheestä, joka ajautuu erilleen sekä joutuu ryöväreiden hyökkäyksen kohteeksi. Perheen lapset ryöstetään ja myydään orjiksi julmalle lääninherra Sansholle. Kuitenkin perheen poika onnistuu vuosien päästä pakenemaan orjuuttajiaan. Hän päättää tehdä tavalla tai toisella lopun julman Sanshon puuhista, vapauttaa orjat ja löytää äitinsä.
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert.
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Iivana Julma (ven. Иван Грозный, Ivan Groznyi) on Sergei Eisensteinin ohjaama kaksiosainen elokuva, jonka ensimmäinen osa on vuodelta 1944, toinen vuodelta 1946. Eisensteinin teos on neuvostoelokuvan klassikoita. Elokuva sukeltaa 1500-luvulla eläneen Venäjän tyrannimaisen tsaarin Iivana Julman mielenliikkeisiin. Tsaari kokoaa vallan itselleen, ja papit ja pajarit ryhtyvät juonittelemaan häntä vastaan.
Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that for him to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.
A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a former platoon member and his young Amerasian daughter.
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much.
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.