A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since the local boys have...
A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.
A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
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.
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.
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.
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.
In 19th century Japan, a rough tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
While vacationing on a remote Scandanavian island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.
Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to ...
The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.
When his castle is exorcised, Dracula plots his revenge against the Monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man's young niece his bride.
Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.