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...

A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.

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In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elep...

A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area i...

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 —...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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...