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.
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 ...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...
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 ...
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurs...
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms...