In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noblewoman, for political reasons; but the impulsive prince ends up giving in to his love for Inés de Castro, his wife's lady-in-waiting.
"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena...
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al...
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what s...
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive a...
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...