In 1936 Sweden, a teenager drifts through life in his small town, hoping that a novel about the neighborhood he grew up and lives in will reverse the fortunes of his family.

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a...

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly ch...

Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.

The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn beauty-parlor owner blossoms under the influence of her recently-...

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...

The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Arg...

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s ...

A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problem...

Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caug...

Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard, all that is left of Leonora, the love of...

Chronicling the troubled existence of Duncan Mudge, a 14-year-old misfit who—while vying for the att...

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused ...

This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy...

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a...

When Kirk, a top roller-blader, discovers that he has bone cancer in his leg, his pleasant affluent...

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old sec...