In 1943, a childless couple, the Čížeks, decide to hide a Jewish refugee, David Wiener, the son of Čížek's former employer, in the secret pantry of their apartment. Čížek is aware of the danger into which he has brought his household and his neighbours, but he takes helping his fellow man in need for granted. But at the same time, as a largely unheroic hero, he is dying of fear. His personal situation is greatly complicated by the approaching end of the war, when he faces danger from both the Germans and his "honest" fellow Czechs...
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude....
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. A...
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde...
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nob...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of h...
Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abando...
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-wor...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the...
The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirro...
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer a...
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgrace...
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their stri...
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...
After a dangerous sea crossing and a stay in a camp in Malaysia, the young Vietnamese Tinh and her f...
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
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...