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.

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken...

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to...

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for ...

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This ye...

Aviator Marie Vallières de Beaumont goes on a journey to find her lover Bill Lancaster after his pla...

During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his countr...

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When sh...

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him ...

Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked...

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot ...

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qual...

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects the...

A look into the life of American actor James Stewart, whose inspiring tale of valor, purpose and fai...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a...
The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about cre...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a...

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurs...