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.

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the si...

Witness the life and loves of Marie Lloyd, the music hall legend known for her bawdy songs and outra...

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...

Set in a modern-day London of economic and political uncertainty, the story follows the intersecting...

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't lo...

Maya is the perfect mother. Her life revolves around her three children, Aleya, Ankush, and Anjali. ...

A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world ...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well ...

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, t...

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recu...

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in ...

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral ...

A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husb...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in t...

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gamb...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...