Evoking the terror and desperation of the seventeenth century, this film brings to life Blaise Pascal, the philosopher and mathematician who, amidst religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.

When Benjamin Steed and his family move to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help, Joseph Smith, turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution.

Following World War II, an unnamed Cardinal is arrested as a traitor to an unspecified Eastern European country. While imprisoned, the Cardinal is put through a series of trials by a state interrogator charged with convincing the Cardinal to issue a phony statement that would effectively end Catholicism in the country. Purportedly based on the real-life travails of Hungarian Cardinal József Mindszenty.

Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.

The children's hour: Parents are scandalized when a mean-spirited pupil at an exclusive girls' school seeks revenge by falsely accusing the two friends who own it of being lesbians. La cage aux folles: A gender-bending farce about the owner of a drag-revue nightclub, his high-strung transvestite companion, and a wedding that defies all odds. My beautiful laundrette: Johnny, a working-class white, and his Pakistani boyfriend, Omar, operate a laundrette....