French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.

Raised in a small town, Antti and Suvi meet at a house party and fall in love, start a band and move...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...

After her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. M...

Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is reject...

The stories of three women who know each other, or get to know each other. They are brought together...

The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up...

A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and t...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Years after his teen romance with Milea, a now-adult Dilan tells his version of their love story whe...

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns fro...

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of thei...

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cel...

Convicted murderer Clyde Thompson receives the death penalty for shooting two men in Texas in 1928. ...

Keisuke, a 10-year-old boy, living hard despite being abused by his father, finds a ray of light in ...

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...

A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marr...

The construction of a gigantic facility such as the Dukovany nuclear power plant requires only the m...

1915, Sarah Bernhardt is the world's first star. Free. Modern. Divine. Eccentric. Visionary... Betwe...

A private detective becomes involved in a new cast when her partner's guardian is murdered.

As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelt...