Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a y...
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they ca...
A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postw...
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New Yo...
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she w...
Komari Sano's parents ran a small Tokyo factory that manufactured aircraft parts. With her parents' ...
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skep...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the ...
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...
An adaptation of a story by a Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that anticipates the Ukrainian ...
Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The ...
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...