The heroes of this story, based on real events at the end of the 1930s and during World War II, face and dismiss the illusions of intellectuals about their ability to transform society. Professor Magyary and his disciples hoped to promote the modernisation of Hungarian society through a radical reform of public administration.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly ...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restau...
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off...
A man and a woman come from two very different cultural backgrounds, and decide that they won't get ...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
At fictional Harrad College students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on ...
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...
A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...
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 ...
Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia ...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...