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...

Tough guy Thomas Beckett is an US soldier working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out r...

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

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

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

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

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as...

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong,...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

Every year, on the anniversary of their parents’ death, Cynthia, Bryce, and Miles gather at the fami...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...