Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

In British colonial India, Lt. Dick Ramsay is charged with secretly rescuing the kidnapped daughter ...

After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get marri...

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...

The wild and wanton Francisca, known as "The Tigress," is the eldest of three sisters, who are bosse...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict betw...

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...

Frank Flynn is summonsed from New York by his brother Charlie to Vanuatu. He arrives only to find Ch...

Coster promises dying mother to care for his brother.

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...

In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries ...

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. T...