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 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 ...

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

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

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

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

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

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...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visi...

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her pe...

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

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 ...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...