Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...

Shortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a ...

A musical film based on biographical facts about Clara Wieck's love for composer Robert Schumann (18...

The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, ...

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree ...

Follows the Bulgarian people's struggle for national independence in the period from 1875 to the Lib...

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If t...

The ship stoker Heini Holler leaves Greece for health reasons and reports to the consulate of fascis...

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...

In 1905 Hungary, a young village woman has just undergone a marriage to the spoiled son of a man ...

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action...

A girl from a boarding school finds a baby and has to keep it because she seems to be the real mothe...

When the dancer Carmen visits the bullfighter Antonio, who has stabbed a gypsy, in prison, she meets...

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminate...

The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing...

An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He...

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical isla...

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with th...