Un chico pelea en estadios de boxeo ilegales en Filipinas y ha estado buscando a su padre coreano para conseguir dinero para la operación de su madre filipina enferma. Un día, recibe un mensaje de su padre coreano y vuela a Corea del Sur para encontrarse con él, al llegar será perseguido por distintos bandos sin saber la razón de su persecución.
Ambientada en Francia, en 1386, cuenta el enfrentamiento entre el caballero Jean de Carrouges y el escudero Jacques LeGris , al acusar el primero al segundo de abusar de su esposa, Marguerite de Carrouges. El Rey Carlos VI decide que la mejor forma de solucionar el conflicto es un duelo a muerte. El que venza será el ganador, sin embargo, si lo hace el escudero, la esposa del caballero será quemada como castigo por falsas acusaciones.
El conde Zaroff es un loco millonario que vive en una isla solitaria y se dedica a cazar a los náufragos como si fueran animales.
Inglaterra, 1600. La reina Isabel I promete a Orlando, un joven noble obsesionado con la poesía, que le otorgará tierras y fortuna si accede a satisfacer una petición muy particular.
Un acaudalado conde francés engaña a un hombre que tiene un parecido físico increíble con él y lo fuerza a asumir su personalidad. (filmaffinit)
El joven noble Calisto se enamora de Melibea, la hija de un rico comerciante. El sirviente de Calisto, Sempronio, le sugiere ir con la hechizera Celestina para conseguir su amor.. Sin embargo su otro sirviente, Parmeno, sospecha de Celestina porque conoce sus trucos. Luego de que Celestina convence a Melibea del amor de Calisto y arreglar una reunion clandestina entre ellos, Calisto le da a Celestina una cara cadena de oro. Ambos sirvientes no estan satisfechos con las mujeres enviadas por Celestina y le demandan mas, comenzando una dramatica secuencia de eventos.
Europa, principios del siglo XVII. Tras abandonar a su prometida doña Elvira, Don Juan huye de la ciudad ante las amenazas de muerte de los dos hermanos de su novia. Durante el viaje por mar, Don Juan y su criado Snagarelle, son víctimas de un naufragio.
In this three-act operetta by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, a dashing and mysterious circus performer is hired by a disappointed suitor of Princess Fedora Palinska to pose as a nobleman and marry her. This 1969 performance was produced for West German television.
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform one man into a national sensation and iconic fairy-tale character. His name: Petrus Gonsalvus, more commonly known today as the hairy hero of Beauty and the Beast.
Siglo XVI. Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada es la hija de un hidalgo de Ávila que se resiste a aceptar su rol de mujer en un mundo de hombres: no quiere limitarse a ser esposa y madre. Siente que tiene que haber algo más elevado. Quiere escribir, quiere leer, quiere aprender. En busca de ese “algo” que le falta, ingresa en un convento de clausura. Su decepción no puede ser mayor: tras las paredes del claustro reina el materialismo y la misma frivolidad de los que ella viene huyendo. Así, decide iniciar una cruzada de oración y sacrificio que la convierten primero en una rebelde y una loca, más tarde en una líder y, finalmente en una santa. Esta es la crónica de una mujer única para un tiempo difícil. Una mujer hermosa y fuerte que luchó contra el mundo y salió ganando en su día y en la historia...
What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan Hus didn't even get warm in Constance, let alone burn up? What if Jan Zizka had more than one healthy eye? This animated comedy from director Pavel Koutský playfully breaks the myths about the Hussite era as the pedestal of history is occupied not by preachers and military leaders but by two unbelievable scatterbrains, who become the heroes of their time against their will.
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
After the death of his beloved wife, a nobleman from northern Croatia turns to spiritualism refusing to accept that she's gone. She begins to appear in his presence and he starts to believe that she's alive.
Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the sumptuous setting of Topkapi, the Ottoman sultans' own Istanbul seraglio (palace harem). Belmonte finds his fiancée Konstanze and her English maid Blondchen, who were captured and sold by pirates, in the Mediterranean seraglio of the Ottoman pasha Selim. Belmonte's servant Pedrillo gets him engaged as builder. After Selim tried to enforce himself upon Konstanze, Pedrillo and Blondchen, his own sweetheart, prepare their flight, managing to get Osmin, the pasha's overseer, drunk. Yet Osmin and Selim's guard still capture them, already in the garden; however the touching display of true love melts the pasha's heart, so he lets them go.
LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE (The Touchstone) concerns the Count Asdrubale who is wealthy and therefore of great interest to many women – notably Aspasia, Fulvia, and Clarice. Only Clarice, however, loves him for something other than his riches. There are also male hangers-on: the corrupt journalist Macrobio, the poetaster Pacuvio, and Giocondo, who is Asdrubale's true friend, but who has his own eyes on Clarice. To test his friends and would-be fiancées, Asdrubale pretends that he has been bankrupted. Sure enough, only Clarice and Giocondo stand by him, and when his fortune is "miraculously" saved, the three have the last laugh on everyone else... or do they? This production is set in what looks like the early 1960s. But the real innovation is the use of blue screen technology: using tiny cameras and sets, along gigantic screens hanging over the stage, a kind of video mixing makes the singers appear to inhabit any number of fanciful settings and perform a myriad of improbable actions.
The adventures of teenagers Malcolm Scott and Phillip Harrison as they improve on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and save the world.
At the forests of Östergötland, where land meets sea, rests the old castle Herrborum. Here lives count Magnus Stenbock, 92, according to his own ideas about what is appropriate and what is not. Film-maker Helena Nygren is fascinated by the count and the castle, and is allowed to film on the condition that she takes the role of companion lady. Over one year, Helena returns several times to take part of count Magnus Stenbock and his servants life on castle Herrborum in Östergötland. Time stands still on the castle, and in the movie Helena wants to preserve the fairy tale feeling she gets when she steps into these ancient surroundings. The count is a strong personality with strong opinions and a great interest in history. All kinds of people come to his castle to savor the special atmosphere and follow the old fashioned rules of etiquette. Helena transforms from an observer to a lady who participates in the social games on the estate, where everything moves around its own time axis.