Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.

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.

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

In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance member...

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

With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her mon...

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

The life and death of Zhao Yi-Man, a female member of the Chinese resistance

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the ...

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a ...

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop ...

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a...

After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast,...

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...

On his 83rd birthday, Eddie, a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, die...

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

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...

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

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