Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caug...
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is ...
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in ...
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch ...
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figur...
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu...
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local...
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...