At the end of a brilliant career across the most prominent courts of late medieval Italy, legendary master at arms, Fiore dei Liberi, reminisces about some key episodes of his action packed life and teaches a skeptical young scribe a valuable lesson on survival while supervising the creation of his renowned “Fior di Battaglia” (The Flower of Battle) treatise on combat, which is studied worldwide today.
Three women, three men, all very high level athletes, Olympic medalists, world champions in basketball, judo, rugby, fencing, swimming and figure skating have agreed to testify in a documentary. For the first time, they publicly reveal their homosexuality.
The underdog story of a fencer from Brooklyn who overcomes a gauntlet of hardships on the road to the Olympics.
During a fencing camp thirteen-year old Puck struggles to feel connected to her rapidly changing body.
Hsiao Yen, a Young Country girl, has come to the city to find work. Her first job is as a maid-servant. She is told by the hunchback servant Lei Kung, that the master of the house is an invalid cripple who never leaves his room. One night, Hsiao Yen's screams bring Ta Tseng, the Chauffeur, to the rescue of Wang Ma, an old servant, who has tried to hang herself...
Fencer Eun-soo who has passed her prime days starts her training at her old school to become a member of the national team. There she meets the rising star Ah-jin. The two of them feel uneasy with each other because of Eun-soo’s ex-boyfriend and coach, Jae-hee. Eun-soo has a practice match with Ah-jin, thinking that she would be an easy opponent, but Eun-soo almost loses the game. Unable to accept the facts, Eun-soo pushes Ah-jin, causing her an injury and Ah-jin is no longer able to participate in the pre-matches. However, Ah-jin is scouted by a professional team and leaves with Jae-hee. Eun-soo is left alone in the gym.
In search of her own identity, a young champion in fencing is torn between two men, which leads her to personal conflict.
Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.
In the 18th century, Robert's beloved Helena is forced to marry the cruel Henrik Brest. Robert becomes Roope the Pirate, the most famous pirate in the Baltic Sea, whose legendary life includes scheming and partying, sword fights and women's adventures.
A young office worker turns into insect. As an insect, he enters the orifices of his enemies and possesses them, allowing him to enact his revenge fantasies...
A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger saves his life one night from a gang of muggers. He soon finds himself caught up in the world of underground illegal swordfights, where combatants fight to the death.
The film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin to fight for supremacy both on and off the arena.
Traveling swordsman Shen Sheng-yi (Ti Lung) and his lady friend match wits and swords with the last surviving member of the once great Murung family who is determined to rule the martial world by stealing plans to crafting firearms.
After fathering a child, Maharaj Bahadur Singh marries and starts a family. One of his sons grows up to usurp him, the other to be Zorro.
A young woman tries to escape what seems to be a curse that is killing members of her family one by one.
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.