In 1971, António Lobo Antunes' life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serve as a doctor in one of the worst zones of the Colonial War – the East of Angola. Away from everything dear he writes letters to his wife while he is immersed in an increasingly violent setting. While he moves between several military posts he falls in love for Africa and matures politically. At his side, an entire generation struggles and despairs for the return home. In the uncertainty of war events, only the letters can make him survive.
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei...
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old frie...
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...
Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians o...
After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave...
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic po...
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love...
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as ...
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his ...
Reincarnated 30 years after being killed in a suspicious on-set fire, a small-time actor is determin...
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came ...
Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a strang...
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakista...
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religiou...
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive fr...
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president ...
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go t...