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.

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...

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where t...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

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

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...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...

American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorize...

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

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Mar...

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to f...

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are...

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary ...

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

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

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature ...

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to hel...