A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Istorija apie tris šeimas, atstovaujančias tris skirtingas visuomenės sluoksnių klases. Vilkoksai - turtingi kapitalistai, atstovaujantys klasę, pakeitusią senąją aristokratiją. Seserys Šlegel - išsilavinusios buržuazijos atstovės. Bastai priklauso viduriniosios klasės apačioms. Vilkoksai - Ruth ir Henris - valdo puikų "Hovards Endo" dvarą. Po Ruth mirties dvaras palikimu atitenka Margaret. Naujoji savininkė su dideliu entuziazmu imasi veiklos bei pasikviečia seserį Helen. Žavus aukštuomenės vyriškis Vilkoksas - turtingas kapitalistas, už mandagumo bei gerų manierų kaukės slepiantis egoizmą ir netgi žiaurumą, suvilioja jauną nepriklausomą Margaret. Vilkoksas siūlo jai ranką ir širdį. Šių šeimų likimai įmantriai persipina, Hovards Endas nugrimzta į neįsivaizduojamų aistrų, intrigų ir netgi tragedijų sūkurį...
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George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
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.
Londonas, paryžius, Madridas...30- aisiais metais Europa jiems galėjo suteikti bet kokius malonumus. Laisva meilė, bohema, lengvi pinigai. Anglė Gilda, airis Gajus ir ispanė Mija turėjo ne tik butą Paryžiaus centre, bet ir meilę, kuria dalinosi visi trys. Bet ore jau tvyrojo nuojauta apie artėjantį karą, kuris išskirtų juos visiems laikams...
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.