Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a ...

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowb...

When a young journalist dies in violent circumstances, her brother soon learns, by way of the myster...

Based on the Vera Panova book about a complicated relationship between an 8-year-old boy and his new...

Two high school girls graduate and one of them goes off to a rural town to join an underground dance...

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the ...

Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'lov...

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of l...

Four Punjab-based men attempt to immigrate abroad by wooing a Canadian resident.

Peter is a cheerful -- but not very obedient -- boy from a very ordinary family in pre-war Rotterdam...

A young European boy living in San Francisco is reluctant to marry his long-term girlfriend because ...

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "...

After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf ...

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matine...

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon'...

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there ...

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see th...

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law ...

A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise...