At a Spanish cloister, a celebrated French general of the Napoleonic Wars recognizes the voice of one of the nuns and recalls how, five years ago, she was the Duchess of Langeais, and he her most persistent suitor.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her present...
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society,...
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...
Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the mo...
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of wome...
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a...
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...
In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he ca...
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting ...
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. T...
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is dia...
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...
Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the ...
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to ...
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....