Ilsa, a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners, strives to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be…

In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people…

In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess,…

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain’s ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an…

From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model….

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister’s death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.