The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.

Under the USSR oppression a family breaks up and its members find themselves on opposite sides of th...

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from th...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When ...

The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's in...

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a l...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated ...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...

Grethi Birger is 17 years old - and now stands all alone in the world. Her mother, the great singer,...