The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

A restaurant in Moscow is forced to shut shop after they end up ruining a crucial political dinner i...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowl...

Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents —...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in th...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...