A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as...

Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, To...

Vijay's marriage is fixed to Pavitra, the daughter of a wealthy man. Things take a turn when Vijay a...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all se...

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...

A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a so...

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr...

After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a figh...

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of hig...

After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tri...

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes...

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...