Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
Rajini, a Sri Lankan Tamil girl, narrates the horrific tale of why she had to leave her homeland and...
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery...
On a 19th century Caribbean island, slaves revolt against their beautiful and sadistic mistress.
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marri...
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchante...
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he b...
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
In the Southern Mexican jungle, an adventurous archaeologist is accompanied by an equally daring fem...
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a ...
The wealthy plantation owner Pinaud is brutally murdered in Ceylon. His attractive German wife Anne ...
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed fa...
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to ev...
Chandar is a black leopard who lives near the beach of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) together with his mother a...