Valentina Cortese

Shot down over Italy, an RAF pilot and aspiring composer falls in love with his rescuer, then returns home to his wife inspired to write an opera.

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jackson. Jackson befriends a young communist and gets an invitation to Trotsky's house.

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

A Cinderella story about a waning director who revives his career after discovering a beautiful Spanish dancer and making her into a Hollywood star.

St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying. Even today, many people are moved by his visionary message of universal toleration.