France in the fifties. The teenage orphan Sylvie is put in an institution for "fallen" or endangered girls, subjected to harsh treatment by the bigoted nuns who run the institution like a prison. Sylvie befriends a girl who wants to escape.
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care...
A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment...
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climat...
On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GD...
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his fi...
A girl, sent by her parents to live with her two eccentric aunts, finds out on her sixteenth birthda...
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...
Kreshnik Martini is a spy who has infiltrated the ranks of an enemy agency.
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "...
The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's m...
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel...
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...
This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the ...
Complex battle of the sexes and classes as a neurotic rich woman has an affair with her father's cal...
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband,...
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific execu...
Benjamin, a 16-year-old with lousy grades, switches to a boarding school in order to eventually reac...
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (Na...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell ...