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...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
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...
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...
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...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended myster...
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirem...