På Jesu tid bliver den jødiske prins Ben-Hur udsat for falske anklager og sendt til galejerne, mens hans mor og søster kommer i fængsel. Under et søslag redder Ben-Hur kaptajnens liv og adopteres af ham som en søn. Årene går, og Ben-Hur bliver en dreven deltager i hestevæddeløb. Men trods sit nye liv har han ikke opgivet at finde sin familie og få hævn over arkitekterne bag anklagerne.
Ashitaka bliver bidt af en dæmon og får en grim infektion. Derfor begiver han sig afsted for at finde guden Shishigami, der efter sigende kan helbrede ham. Undervejs oplever han den åbne konflikt mellem skovens gamle guder. Han er også vidne til minelandsbyens udnyttelser af jordens ressourcer. Ashitaka prøver at mægle, men uden større held.
Antonio Bay er en fredelig lille by på Californiens kyst. Den blev grundlagt 100 år tidligere, da et skib med spedalske støtte på grund efter at være blevet lokket i en fælde af egnens daværende beboere. Nu er de spedalske vendt tilbage for at hævne sig deres efterkommere.
Det lille fiskersamfund blev grundlagt på en dyster hemmelighed og nu, præcis 100 år efter, tager fortiden sin grusomme hævn. En tung mystisk tåge bevæger sig ind over byen og der finder flere grusomme dødsfald sted. Rygter om hemmeligheder ligeså gamle som byen selv, begynder at sprede sig. Befolkningen i Antonio Bay forstår efterhånden at de er ofre for en hævnaktion fra sømænd som for længst er døde - sømænd som blev dræbt af byens grundlæggere.
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.
As an outbreak of leprosy engulfs 19th-century colonial Hawai'i, a small group of infected Native Hawaiians resist government-mandated exile, taking a courageous stand against the provisional government. Inspired by real-life events.
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live.
A man is shipwrecked on the island of a cruel Count and taken prisoner.
Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.
Far away from any other urban centers, Itapuã is a small community with the characteristics and rituals of everyday life. The location, which sheltered 1,454 people and has more than 70 years of existence remains with only 35 residents all over the age of 60. No one likes to remember what the place was in the past, even though for many the memory is etched on their bodies.
Terence Knapp plays Father Damien in this TV adaptation of the stage play. Damien goes to Hawaii in the late 1800s to care for lepers. Now deceased from leprosy, Father Damien appears as a spirit recounting his life as his funeral procession is carried out.
Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king banishes the sick to the island of Molokai. In 1873, the Belgian Catholic missionary Damien de Veuster arrives on the island to help improve the lives of its unfortunate inhabitants.
Sorokdo is an island of Korea where the scars of the wars are visible. Wars that sowed confusion, suffering and injustice in a society concentrated on its economic development.
The inaccessibility of a cure has been the major struggle of the residents of a remote barrio after a widespread Hansen's disease (leprosy) afflicted them. Defeated by poverty and fear, Sara and Paeng decided to move out to save their severely ill son, Toto.
This short film tells the true story of the heroic sacrifice of Father Damien, the Belgian priest who suffered a living death in order to bring hope and God's comfort to the lepers confined on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.