When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...

Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid ...

Late 18th-century Joseon dynasty. The King is beleaguered and surrounded by traitors of the ruling e...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall ...

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

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in W...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola...

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...

TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his uns...

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

A naive young college student, who is majoring in chemistry, is persuaded by her roommates and a wou...