When a busybody teacher in a girls’ finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager…

In 1910 Manhattan, Victoria Van Brett, a bitter spinster heiress lives an isolated life with her sister Caroline. Her domineering urges go into overdrive when their half-brother Rip brings a…

Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to…

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter’s fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she…

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl,…

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor’s love with her tainted family fortune.

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king’s skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal…

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.

A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.