Bette Midler in The Rose (1979)
A story of love, family, deceit and tragedy, covering around 100 years and three generations of people who live in a small East Texas town, against the backdrop of a powerful timber and cotton industries.
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A story of love, family, deceit and tragedy, covering around 100 years and three generations of people who live in a small East Texas town, against the backdrop of a powerful timber and cotton industries.
A tale of democracy and demagogy, centered on the times before and during the execution of French revolutionary Georges Danton and several of his fellows, instigated by Maximilien de Robespierre.
In winter 1927, a bank robbery occured in the town of Cisco, which sparked one of the biggest manhunts in Texas history. It got its name because one of the four robbers was dressed like Santa Claus.
After serving a year of hard labor in the salt mines, a young female assassin is brought before the Crown Prince. He offers her freedom under one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
Tale of humanity's first manned interstellar voyage to a double planet called Rocheworld. Strange discoveries await them.
On a distant planet colonised by humans, a new threat emerges in form of the Thread - a deadly substance which rains from the sky. To protect themselves, humanity has tamed and trained dragons - a species native to that planet. The story follows a young, female dragonrider.
It is the year 1665 - a privateer captain Charles Hunter is hired by the governor of Jamaica's Port Royal to steal a Spanish galleon and its cargo of gold treasure.
To save his mother from certain death, a 12 year-old boy enters a parallel world known as the Territories in search of a powerful talisman.
A young man remembers his teenage years growing up in a middle-class neighborhood in Louisiana. He was so madly in love with a village girl that, when she was raped, he became a suspect.
The struggle of Dominican Republic immigrants in the 1980's United States. Each story is a separate vignette, but is braided together with the same main characters.
Stories involving the French monarchy in the XIV century middle-ages. George R. R. Martin called it ''the original Game of Thrones''.
In an advanced fantasy world, people can harness light to create a magical substance called Luxin. The are many colors of Luxin, but only one person can do magic with all of them - the Emperor and the High Priest, called the Prism.
Last years of the XIV century Serbian Emperor Dušan the Mighty (with flashbacks of his youth), and the mysterious circumstances concerning his death, while he was forging plans to conquer Constantinople.
Biopic about Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican baseball player, MLB legend, and humanitarian.
Friday is a female ''artificial person'', genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, and smarter. The story followsh her struggles in the futuristic North America, which has been split in many smaller states.
Saga set in the far future, where civilization has banned artificial intelligence but has developed advanced technology and mental/physical abilities. Vital to all this is a desert planet, which is the only known source of the Spice - the most valuable substance in the universe.
A young Andalusian shepherd has a reccuring prophetic dream, which will lead him to Egypt in a quest for treasure. But the real mystery is what this treasure truly is.
History of England through the tales of several families living in and around the English city of Salisbury. The story spans for several thousand years, from prehistoric times, up to 1985.
A small-town murder mystery set in two timelines (1940s and 2000s), both centered on a journalist who was lead back to her hometown after receiving a mysterious letter.
Marco is a small Italian boy, whose mother went to Argentina to earn money for their family. But when her letters stop arriving, Marco - fearing the worst - decides to go on a long jounrey from Italy to Argentina, to find his mother.
An American looks back on his days in Paris, where he spent his nights in the city's bars and cafes, and fell in love with another man.
Life of the XV century ruler Mehmed II The Conqueror - one of the greatest Sultans in the history of the Ottoman Empire.
An ancient, secret war is still fought in the present day. On one side are the evil Old Ones, who use magic and organized religion to cause suffering to humans, while on the other side are the Lumina, who use science and logic to enlighten humans.
The untold story of Alexander Butterfield (assistant of Richard Nixon), who disclosed the secret White House taping system during the Watergate scandal, which led to Nixon’s resignation.
In the near future, the Moscow Metro is home to the last survivors of a global nuclear holocaust. People are split into many different factions, while the world above has mutated into something horrid.