London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of...

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother...

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of wome...

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient f...

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

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love...

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prom...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a ...

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accoun...

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited ...

Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his bro...

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose ...

Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother...

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast af...

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class R...