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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Halit Berati, a virtuoso clarinet player, is invited by the Italians to record his music, which is 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 ...

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

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

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

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...

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