Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena...
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al...
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what s...
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the ...
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive a...
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliot who decides to keep him hidden ...
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and ...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...