1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focus shifts back and forth from the brothers' parents and Zhongliang's wife and son to Zhongliang's newfound life of luxury in a town not too far away. The plight of Zhongliang's mother, his wife, Sufan and her son, Kongeson is contrasted with Zhongliang's rise in a flourishing company.

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to...

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning ...

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revol...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges ...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...

Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and runnin...

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...

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

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kish...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but...

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...