When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.
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After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young d...
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at th...
Paris, France, 2001. Octave Parango, a young advertiser working at the Ross & Witchcraft advertising...
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mys...
In 19th century New England, the lives of a diverse group of people collide through interweaving sto...
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number...
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends...
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months...
40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother...
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that...
Hakubo tells the story of two young people who live in rural Fukushima: Sachi Koyama, a girl who exc...
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the no...
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...
Dramatisation of the massacre which took place in Colombia in 1948, as a result of conflict between ...
Olavi, a farmer's son, leaves his home after a dispute with his father and leads a life of a womaniz...