The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.