A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

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

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist ...

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figur...

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where t...

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT L...