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 the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
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 ...
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...
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the wor...
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 ...
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch ...
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...
A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...
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...
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When sh...
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...