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.

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...

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

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figur...

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu...

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l...

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation...

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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

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

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...

Halit Berati, a virtuoso clarinet player, is invited by the Italians to record his music, which is t...

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

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...

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

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...