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 rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control...

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is publ...

Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappe...

The sailor Quico Carola, alleged war hero of the Francoist side, emigrated to America and amassed a ...

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...

Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. ...

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

Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enj...

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

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

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

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive...

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into cover...

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekv...