A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.

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…

An eccentric Parisian woman’s optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power…

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw…

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from…

A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico…

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman’s stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.

The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, “the…

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman’s banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.