Les Trois mousquetaires [TV] (1959)
Claude Barma

France, 1625. King Louis XIII reigns but it is the Cardinal de Richelieu who governs. As he is reprimanding Athos, Porthos and Aramis after being thrashed by the cardinal's men, Monsieur de Tréville is visited by the young Charles D'Artagnan, who is keen to serve as a musketeer...   [More...]

Les Trois mousquetaires (1921)
Henri Diamant-Berger

1625, France. The young d'Artagnan leaves his home in Gascony and sets out for Paris to fulfil his dream to serve as a musketeer under King Louis XIII...   [More...]

Une exécution ordinaire (2010)
Marc Dugain

In the autumn of 1952, a young woman doctor is working at a hospital in the suburbs of Moscow. She is desperate to become pregnant by her husband, a disillusioned physicist whose only reason for living is the love he has for his wife...   [More...]

Unforgiven (1992)
Clint Eastwood

Wyoming, circa 1880. When a prostitute in the town of Big Whiskey is savagely disfigured by two cowboys, her co-workers club together to offer a thousand dollar reward to anyone who shoots dead the attackers...   [More...]

The Untouchables (1987)
Brian De Palma

In 1930s Chicago, the sale of alcohol is prohibited, allowing shady entrepreneurs like Al Capone to make a fortune by peddling illicit liquor at skyrocket prices...   [More...]

Uranus (1990)
Claude Berri

Little by little, normality returns to a small French town after World War II. The town is as scarred by the petty recriminations between its inhabitants as by the very evident signs of bombings...   [More...]

Van Gogh (1991)
Maurice Pialat

In the spring of 1890, the impoverished artist Vincent Van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, not far from Paris. He stays at a modest inn and places himself under the care of the kindly Dr Gachet...   [More...]

La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000)
Patrice Leconte

In 1849, the calm of a small community on the bleak island St Pierre, off the coast of French Canada, is disrupted when a drunk stabs another man to death...   [More...]

The Virgin Spring (1960)
Ingmar Bergman

In 14th Century Sweden, a wild young woman Ingeri lives with her foster parents, Töre and Märeta, hard working peasants who have chosen to follow the new Christian faith...   [More...]

Viva Zapata! (1952)
Elia Kazan

In 1909, the Mexican President, Porfirio Díaz, is visited by a delegation of peasants who complain that their land has been illegally taken from them...   [More...]

Voleurs de chevaux (2007)
Micha Wald

Ukraine, 1810. Two young Cossack brothers, Jakub and Vladimir, join the Russian army hoping to find relief from the misery of their existences...   [More...]

Warsaw '44 (2014)
Jan Komasa

By the summer of 1944 Nazi Germany is already losing the war. Encouraged by the advance of the Red Army from the East, the Polish resistance Home Army (Armia Krajowa) sets in motion an all-out uprising against the occupying Germans...   [More...]

Waterloo (1970)
Sergei Bondarchuk

With Paris besieged by the armies of Austria and her allies, the Emperor Napoleon has no option but to abdicate and he is soon living in exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba...   [More...]

Witchfinder General (1968)
Michael Reeves

1645. Amid the turmoil of the English Civil War, there are those who turn the breakdown in law and order to their advantage...   [More...]

Yojimbo (1961)
Akira Kurosawa

Japan, 1860. With the country in a state of terminal decline following the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, a Ronin Samurai who has fallen on hard times arrives at a small provincial town that has degenerated into gang warfare...   [More...]

Zulu (1964)
Cy Endfield

In 1879, missionary Otto Witt and his daughter Margareta are attending a mass Zulu marriage ceremony in Natal when they learn that a British force of 1400 men has just been wiped out by an army of Zulu warriors...   [More...]

Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1925)
Arthur von Gerlach

In 17th century Germany, the elderly rich landowner Grieshuus of Holstein has decided that his eldest son Hinrich will inherit his entire estate...   [More...]