Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested.

On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GD...

Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets ar...

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly at...

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the R...

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...

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense o...

A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic ...

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmae...

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu...

In the troubled city of Edison, a young journalist, his jaded editor, and an honest investigator fro...

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

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...

A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment...