Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank’s mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O’Neal to look into the…

A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin’s influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as…

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins…

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with…

A private eye and his girlfriend avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.

While recuperating in a hospital after he’s hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he’d made different choices twenty years earlier.

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht…

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.