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.

Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pu...

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictato...

In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa...

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...

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...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

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 ...

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 ...

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins f...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...