Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

Under the USSR oppression a family breaks up and its members find themselves on opposite sides of th...

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When ...

The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's in...

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a l...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...

During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the s...

About sixteen-year-old Susanne and her relationship with her parents and friends. To make her friend...