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.
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...
With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety ...
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...
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 supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...
Kharkiv, the 1930s. The heyday of Ukrainian art. Ambitious young poet Vladimir Akimov happily settle...
Poetic story of a proletarian couple's relationship in the years of economic crisis and unemployment...
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie fac...
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local...
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch ...
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 the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...