Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

In the summer of 2012 in a small town in the south of China, divorced shopkeeper Peng Yun makes the ...

In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a ...

Set in the year 2060, it follows a love story as Tokyo's third Olympics draws near. Takeru Oosawa, w...

During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the s...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

Under the USSR oppression a family breaks up and its members find themselves on opposite sides of th...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When ...

The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's in...

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a l...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided...

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon...

A superstitious drifter stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming...

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

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

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

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

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...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...