The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.

The story of a man who invented a country.

A group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future...

An account of the many assassination attempts suffered by dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975), perpetrated between 1936 and 1964, taking as a...

When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide...

In 1960s Singapore when Bugis Street was a center of transsexual prostitution, naïve sixteen-year-old Lian comes of age working as a...

A young girl named Debbie is attacked by a bus stop one evening and is blindfolded and raped. Her mother, Lila, who is consumed with guilt is...

Twelve year-old Edek falls under the spell of a girl named Monika while vacationing at his aunt's house. Getting increasingly infatuated with her,...

A wealthy Hong Kong housewife, Anna, lives a spoiled, bored life. When her husband suddenly leaves, taking the money and prestige with him, she...

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt...

Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run...

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a...

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as...

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his...

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous...

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the...

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as...

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two...