A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Anglia în epoca victoriană: nobila Ruth Wilcox este prietenă apropiată cu Margaret Schlegel, care este mult mai tânără și provine dintr-o familie din clasa de mijloc. Rudele lui Ruth critică legătura dintre femei. Când Ruth moare, familia are o surpriză: Margaret moștenește singură proprietatea familiei Howard's End.
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George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date.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.
Bridget are parte în sfârșit de o oportunitate când întâlnește un tip de treabă și obține un loc de muncă mult dorit: dădacă pentru Frances, în vârstă de 6 ani. Însă o sarcină nedorită introduce o complicație neașteptată. Situația se înrăutățește când Bridget se ceartă cu încăpățânata Frances și încearcă să înfrunte tensiunile din ce în ce mai mari dintre mamele lui Frances. În mijlocul acestor relații personale complicate, se leagă o prietenie neașteptată cu Frances, iar Bridget are de-a face cu bucuriile inevitabile și problemele care apar când devii o parte din familia altcuiva.
Alfie nu este chiar unul dintre cei răi. Doar că are această dorință debordantă pentru sexul opus. Ai putea spune că fetele nu îi pot rezista este darul lui firesc. „Alfie” este o comedie vulgară și sălbatică, plină de sex și păcat, cu Michael Caine în rolul principal. Pentru cei care vor să fie distrați, „Alfie” este fermecător, încântător și distractiv. Sub această suprafață distractivă, cei care vor mai mult vor descoperi o tragedie profundă. Ea spune o poveste simplă și emoționantă despre cel care ia femei și despre femeile care se dăruiesc.
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.