In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physical...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumou...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a ...

Lynn, a brilliant student, after helping her friends to get the grades they need, develops the idea ...