After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Two women, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, swap homes at Christmas time ...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the...
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down...
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...
Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Gu...
Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When no...
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woma...
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. H...
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recoun...
After fighting with her boyfriend on the street, in Brussels' African neighbourhood, Eva escapes int...
12-year-old Mira is fascinated by her synchronized swimming trainer and tries to get closer to her, ...
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her...
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while strugg...
After the tragic death of her husband, a soldier posted to Afghanistan, Bryony tries to build a new ...