The film is set in Tuscany during the Black Death. As in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance and swordplay. There are randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow.
A brilliant general distinguishes himself by protecting the dynasty's borders while keeping an eye on one of the sons of the king.
Un groupe de guerriers épuisés escorte une présumée sorcière censée être responsable de la propagation de la peste noire dévastatrice.
Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After nearly drowning in the moat, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.
En l'an 1327, dans une abbaye bénédictine, des moines disparaissent. Un franciscain, Guillaume de Baskerville, mène l'enquête, aidé du jeune novice Adso von Melk. C'est l'époque où l'Église, en pleine crise, se voit disputer son pouvoir spirituel et temporel. C'est aussi l'apogée de l'inquisition.
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Une épopée historique qui se déroule dans la France au 14e siècle, durant la guerre de Cent Ans. Jean de Carrouges est un chevalier respecté connu pour sa bravoure et ses habiletés de combat. Jacques Le Gris est un écuyer normand dont l’intelligence et l’éloquence font de lui l’un des nobles les plus admirés de la cour. Lorsque la femme de Carrouges, Marguerite, est violemment agressée par Le Gris, une accusation qu’il nie, elle refuse de garder le silence, décidant de dénoncer son agresseur, un acte brave et risqué qui met sa vie en danger. L’épreuve de combat qui s’ensuit, un épuisant duel à mort, place le sort des trois entre les mains de Dieu.
Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.
Au 14e siècle en Écosse, Robert Bruce revendique la couronne et mène une insurrection acharnée pour libérer son pays des griffes du pouvoir anglais.
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
En 1306, en Écosse, Robert Bruce se couronne roi et fait siennes les ambitions de liberté de l'Écosse. Mais son armée, vaincue à répétition, est dispersée, et la noblesse écossaise l'abandonne. Traqué, avec sa tête mise à prix, il se retrouve seul et blessé. Et la cause de la liberté semble de nouveau perdue.
Ku Shen Chai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-ching, a mysterious princess on the run. Yang brings Ku into her circle of protectors, including a nameless monk whose spiritual guidance transforms him into a valiant fighter.
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Paranoia sets in as the Black Death strikes European villagers in the 14th century.
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.
En 1348, la peste noire ravage l'Angleterre. À la demande des autorités ecclésiastiques, le chevalier chrétien Ulric et ses hommes se dirigent vers un petit village isolé que l'on dit, miraculeusement ou diaboliquement, épargné par la terrible épidémie. Pour les guider à travers les marais qui entourent le bourg, ils sont accompagnés par Osmund, un moine novice qui hésite entre l'amour de Dieu et celui d'une femme. De fait, le jeune homme compte bien profiter du voyage pour à la fois retrouver sa bien-aimée et tester sa foi.
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.