John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The company sends a stiff upper-lipper, Charles Summers, accompanied by his wife, Margaret. An antagonism develops between the two men from the moment Summers arrives.

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as...

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence...

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been p...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Ma...

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...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to f...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...

When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know abo...

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the ...

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

A group of American tourists heading down an African river make a brief stop at Snake Island, an isl...

Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the vict...

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as lett...