Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, ...
While vacationing on a remote Scandanavian island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
In 19th century Japan, a rough tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.
A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.
A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.
In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Charlie Brown makes his way to the national spelling bee finals.
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
In prison four long-sentence inmates planning an elaborate escape cautiously induct a new inmate to join in their scheme which leads to distrust and uncertainty.