In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne.
尼可拉斯凱吉首度挑戰古裝騎士角色,帶領觀眾進入媲美【魔戒】的魔幻世界。14世紀,一群騎士受命押解一名被控為女巫的年輕女子,前往遠方寺院接受審判,但在目的地等待著他們的卻是更加危險黑暗的勢力…
在十四世紀,一個重要宗教會議,突遭五名神秘殺手破壞。 英國聖芳濟各會修士威廉(史恩康納萊)負責追查幕後元兇,威廉在年青隨從(克里斯汀史萊特)協助下,一步一步向真相逼近,豈料,跟他作對的宗教裁判官貝納多(莫瑞亞伯拉罕)也來到了修道院。貝納多決意以酷刑杜絕一切異說,假如威廉堅持繼續追緝元兇,被追緝的將是威廉自己。
French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.
故事從猿人採集野果開始,一直到磨製石器、火的使用,隨後是人的誕生,接下來講述了舊約和新約的故事。之後進入埃及宮殿,希臘神話,羅馬城幫。順著封建社會一直講到資本主義社會,在法國資產階級大革命,將路易十四送上斷頭台後接近尾聲……本片可謂梅爾布魯克斯版本的世界史!身兼編導演三職的梅爾布魯克斯極其認真地以引人發噱的造型演繹歷史上的真實人物以及事件,從摩西、羅馬帝國,到路易十六、西班牙宗教法庭等無所不包,再加上他的一幹好友唐德路易斯、夏威柯曼、Gregory Hines等人來助陣,你怎麼捨得錯過這部令人大開眼界、捧腹大笑的史詩鉅片!
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
在16世紀的威尼斯,身世平凡卻聰慧美麗的維諾妮卡愛上年輕貴族馬可,兩人的身份差異令這段愛情無以為繼。心痛之下,維諾妮卡決定踏上寵妓之路,爭取自己的地位與幸福!
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.
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
The film is set in 1521 Antwerp, in a Europe ravaged by religious wars, and during the early years of the Reformation. It tells the story of the twelve year old, Falko Voeten – a printer’s son. When Falko’s father, Klaas Voeten, a printer of forbidden literature, is caught by the Inquisition for printing a letter written by Maarten Luther; Falko is unwittingly propelled into helping his father and into searching for the letter. Threatened by the Inquisition but aided by Marieke, a Catholic orphan girl from the underground sewers, Falko is faced with a race against time if he is to save his father from being executed for heresy.
當瘟疫席捲中世紀的歐洲時,有傳言說有一個村莊免受瘟疫的影響。 據說有一位死靈法師領導著村莊並且能夠使死人復活。 一名可怕的騎士與一群士兵和一名年輕修士一起受教會委託進行調查。 他們的旅程充滿了危險,但進入村莊後,他們真正的恐怖才開始。
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the Inquisition.
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
In the early Middle Ages, two Christian knights set off to christen a small pagan village hidden deep in the mountains. Despite the differences in their views and perspectives on religion, the two men become travel companions and create a father-son relationship. As they settle into the local community, their faith, belief system and the bond between them are all put to the test. Soon, love is confronted with hate, dialogue with violence, madness with rules and many will have to die.
The Wood Royal Commission unleashed an extraordinary investigation that swept through the NSW Police Force like a tsunami. For many, the stakes were life or death. Not everyone survived.
A group of teenage, treasure seeking, grave robbers accidentally uncover the tomb of a satanic sect leader from the early Spanish colonial age, reawakening the diabolical killer, who promptly sets out to complete his unholy mission of spawning the son of Satan.
Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere". A hypnotist puts him to sleep and in his dreams he is transplanted to the days of the Renaissance. There, among other items, he is made a Duke by Henri VIII, fights a duel and survives a series of medieval tortures, while also bestowing some 20th century blessings on the court of Francis I.
A kindly but desperate Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Jewish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will not let him rest. Meanwhile, a mysterious Mesmerist has come to town, claiming he has made many criminals confess their crimes...