Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...

A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed wh...

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one o...

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military ...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be...

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many...

A reflection on love and identity with detours towards magical realism, which winks at the oral trad...

Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After he...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...
Over the course of a long, booze-filled Halloween in Los Angeles, four romantic relationships unexpe...

1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup,...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fell...