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.

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusin...

Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne t...

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess...

The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting m...

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable working...

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local...

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch ...

Bratislava, 1930s. The owner of a luxury tailoring salon, Alfréd Blum, has always relied on a classy...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raise...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...