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.

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis a...

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 ...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

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...

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.

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

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

Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard, all that is left of Leonora, the love of...

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

Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begi...

Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caug...

Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it beco...

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused ...

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old sec...

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

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

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g...