In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his “dead” wife’s now boyfriend, berates…

The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.

Jesse Hallum sells the family farm to see that his daughter receives the medical care she needs at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The big city challenges him, though, especially when…

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy,…

An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.

In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under…

Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.

A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.

After a large airliner crashes on a deserted island killing most of the passengers, two women, five men and a dog survive: an Eastern European, a Canadian lawyer, a French…

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.

A small boy squashing an insect sets in motion a series of events, large and small, that include a lost restaurant reservation, a drunken fender-bender, disruption of basic cable television…