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...

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

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...

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

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessaril...

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...

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

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

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

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...

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, ...

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

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

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