Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's...

Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns b...

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

The banker Vagif Fataliyev is found murdered in his own house. During the investigation, two more ...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Bo...

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood ...

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of...

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch...

On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agr...

Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the lov...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and mainta...