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.

In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his...

The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Arg...

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

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...

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...

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

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...

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 ...