Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.

In the Qin Dynasty, time-traveller Hong Siu-lung has lived in seclusion with his family for twenty y...

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sin...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...

A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American nove...

Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everythin...

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu...

The story of the novice musician Kuzma. Three days before the planned concert he goes with his frien...

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is ...

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written abo...

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have ...

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a j...

Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to ...

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is u...

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, un...

...Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is curren...

The S/S Vellamo heads to Alexandria with Kaarina, the daughter of the ship's owner Hallerman, on boa...