The Samurai of Edo

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Dreaming of creating a Czech musical theater, not recognized in his homeland, Josef Navratil, under the pseudonym of Iosif Ratili, one day comes on...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there...

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century....

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a...