The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.
Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his researc...
In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-a...
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions...
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of...
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Girls at a Beijing High School in 1952 have dreams for China.
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ...
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, broodi...
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominic...
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...
Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mans...
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme...
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of...
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "...
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-ri...
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...