Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a sho...
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what s...
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...
In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a fr...
Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a superma...
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is ...