In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think...

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and st...

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his f...

Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixi...

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found sh...

An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasa...

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a...

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienn...

When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written...

Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.

In the 1980s, the building themes were transformed into bipolar moral dilemmas involving overly ambi...

After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling pr...

The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear dest...

After spending two years in prison, framed for accepting a bribe, former newspaper reporter Harry Ba...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scu...

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see th...

Faced with real-world opportunities and challenges, a couple endures the highs and lows of trying to...