Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

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 ...

Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too...

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

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

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

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

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...

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

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

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the s...

The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish Englis...

Now the subjects of a despotic chief, far from having any favor to expect from him, as both themselv...

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee f...

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristoc...

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...