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 former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

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 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 New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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.

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