In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers ...

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle re...

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe ...

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles hav...

A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, witho...

The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday ...

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast un...

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the isla...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio...

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all aff...

Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home...

A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from Ch...

Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sher...

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hun...

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atl...

The beautiful "Blue Bird" schooner is sailing along the Adriatic sea coast. The passengers of the sc...