Judas Ben-Hur, prince de Judée, retrouve son ami d'enfance Messala, venu prendre la tête de la garnison de Jérusalem. Mais leur amitié ne peut résister à leurs caractères différents. Alors qu'une pierre tombe du balcon de la maison familiale de Ben-Hur, manquant de tuer le gouverneur qui paradait plus bas, Messala trahit son ami qu'il sait innocent en l'envoyant aux galères et en jetant en prison sa mère et sa sœur. Ben-Hur jure alors de reconquérir sa liberté et prépare sa vengeance.
Au XVᵉ siècle, durant l’ère Muromachi, la forêt japonaise, jadis protégée par des animaux géants, se dépeuple à cause de l’homme. Un sanglier transformé en démon dévastateur en sort et attaque le village d’Ashitaka, futur chef du clan Emishi. Touché par le sanglier qu’il a tué, celui‐ci est forcé de partir à la recherche du dieu Cerf pour lever la malédiction qui lui gangrène le bras.
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now they're back – long-dead mariners who've waited a century for their revenge.
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.
Deux détectives enquêtent sur le meurtre d'un policier qui allait prendre sa retraite. Les policiers vont devoir fouiller le passé de cet homme pour découvrir une vérité innatendue et bouleversante...
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.