Drama, History
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Closely Watched Trains
Cruel Intentions
Lolita
Rosemary's Baby
Animal Farm
The Bridge on the River Kwai
2046
Black Hawk Down
Dangerous Liaisons
Sliver
Planet of the Apes
The Ex-idol, Stuck in Life, Decided to Live with a Complete Stranger
On the Black Hill
Fried Green Tomatoes
Station Content
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Primal Fear
Jules and Jim
La Chinoise
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Passion of Joan of Arc
IMDB 8 | Apr , 1928
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.Closely Watched Trains
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 1966
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.Cruel Intentions
IMDB 6.8 | Mar , 1999
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.Lolita
IMDB 7.3 | Jun , 1962
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.Rosemary's Baby
IMDB 7.8 | Jun , 1968
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.Animal Farm
IMDB 5.6 | Oct , 1999
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.The Bridge on the River Kwai
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 1957
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.2046
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2004
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.Black Hawk Down
IMDB 7.4 | Dec , 2001
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.Dangerous Liaisons
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 1988
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.Sliver
IMDB 5.6 | May , 1993
A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.Planet of the Apes
IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 1968
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.The Ex-idol, Stuck in Life, Decided to Live with a Complete Stranger
IMDB 6 | Nov , 2023
Akiko (Mai Fukagawa) is a former idol, but now lives an ordinary life. She works at a company and keeps reminding herself that she is happy and to have a fulfilling day. One day, she walks to work and falls down. She becomes stuck and unable to move. Akiko breaks down mentally and decides to quit her job. Now, Akiko doesn't have a job, a boyfriend, and only 100,000 yen (~$700 USD) in her bank account. Her friend then tells her that she should move in with 56 year old salaryman Sasapon (Arata Iura), who lives alone in his house in Tokyo. When she visits Sasapon, he invites her to stay at his house on the condition that she can live there until his retirement. Their strange living arrangement begins.On the Black Hill
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1988
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.Fried Green Tomatoes
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 1991
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.Station Content
IMDB 1 | Jun , 1918
A wayward wife abandons her husband but finds redemption by preventing a railway accident and finding her way back to him. The full 5-reel feature is believed lost; A 1926 abridgement of roughly 12 minutes survives.What's Eating Gilbert Grape
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 1993
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.Primal Fear
IMDB 7.7 | Mar , 1996
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.Jules and Jim
IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 1962
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.La Chinoise
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1967
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.