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.

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious fi...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusin...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess...

The life and professional career of the Spanish filmmaker Florián Rey (1894-1962), a brilliant artis...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a...

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 ...

Clara Mingueza, an actress from Barcelona, sets out to move the mortal remains of Elena Jordi (1882-...

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

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 triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policem...

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

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that...

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