Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her c...
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class R...
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expe...
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Val...
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient f...
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a...
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and he...
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair wi...
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a cou...
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way...
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each ...
Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ra...
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis...