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

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...

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

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

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...

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...