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.
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
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 ...
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding memb...
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...
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off...
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 ...
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l...