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...

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...

Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents —...

Tough guy Thomas Beckett is a US Marine working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out reb...

Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He n...

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from ...

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

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life ami...

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakista...

Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by go...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of ...

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by...

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy ...

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follow...

American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them hom...

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him whi...

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Moro...