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 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...

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Cha...

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

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raise...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...