A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Lontoo 1910. Schlegelin kolme sisarusta, Margaret, Helen ja Tibby, tutustuvat Wilcoxin perheeseen. Kun vanha rouva Wilcox kuolee, hän testamenttaa Howards Endin talonsa Margaretille. Rouva Wilcoxin aviomies ja hänen lapsensa kuitenkin päättävät sivuuttaa hänen viimeisen tahtonsa ja pitää talon. E.M. Forsterin mestariteokseen perustuva elokuva erilaisten yhteiskuntaluokkien kohtaamisesta 1900-luvun alun Englannissa.
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town.
George on pikkurikollinen, joka on juuri vapautunut vankilasta istuttuaan siellä seitsemän vuoden kakun pomonsa hyväksi ja odottaa nyt vastapalvelusta. Hän on jonkin epämääräisen viattoman menneisyyden kasvatti, katujen kovettama mutta pohjimmiltaan rehellinen mies, joka uskoo nyrkkeihinsä ja ritarillisuuteen - ja rakkauteen. Maailma on vankilavuosien aikana muuttunut. Nykymaailmassa on asioita, jotka menevät yli hänen ymmärryksensä, muun muassa vanhan pomon ja tuttujen uudet bisnekset. George saa entiseltään pomoltaan uuden työn kalliimman hintaluokan ilotytön, upean mustan kaunottaren Simonen autonkuljettajana. Heidän välilleen syntyy ristiriitainen vetovoima. Ensin George halveksii emäntäänsä ja sitten rakastuu tähän ja ryhtyy tämän toivomuksesta ottamaan selvää jutusta, joka on liian vaikea hänelle. Hän ryhtyy pelastamaan nuorta tyttöä sutenöörin kynsistä ja lopulta tunteet ja kuvitelmat murskautuvat.
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
At the start of the summer, Bridget has an abortion just as she lands a much-needed job in affluent Evanston, Illinois — nannying a six-year old.
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.
Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.
The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.