The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.

A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.

In early nineteenth-century France Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who failed to report to parole, is relentlessly pursued over a twenty-year period by Javert, an obsessive policeman.

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens…

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.