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.

A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrat...

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family...

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The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later...

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Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her...

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A day full of adventures, experienced by three children.

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A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

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André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the litt...

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the be...