When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best friend, he searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife. In their search, the two intercept a man carrying vital information about his family.
Isabella, the daughter of the noble York family, is enrolled in an all-girls academy to be groomed into a dame worthy of nobility. However, she has given up on her future, seeing the prestigious school as nothing more than a prison from the outside world. Her family notices her struggling in her lessons and decides to hire Violet Evergarden to personally tutor her under the guise of a handmaiden. At first, Isabella treats Violet coldly. Violet seems to be able to do everything perfectly, leading Isabella to assume that she was born with a silver spoon. After some time, Isabella begins to realize that Violet has had her own struggles and starts to open up to her. Isabella soon reveals that she has lost contact with her beloved younger sister, whom she yearns to see again. Having experienced the power of words through her past clientele, Violet asks if Isabella wishes to write a letter to Taylor. Will Violet be able to help Isabella convey her feelings to her long-lost sister?
USA, začiatok 50. rokov. Freddie Quell bojuje so svojou traumou z vojny a pomáha si pri tom výdatnými dávkami vlastnoručne vyrobeného alkoholu. Prepadá sa stále hlbšie a hlbšie, keď sa jedného dňa náhodou stretne s charizmatickým Lancastrom Doddom, ktorý sa so svojou manželkou a skupinkou oddaných prívržencov práve chystá v New Yorku predstaviť svetu nové učenie. Lancaster Dodd, prezývaný "Majster" sa rozhodne Freddieho "liečiť" podľa vlastnej teórie. Film bol voľne inšpirovaný postavou zakladateľa scientológie L. Rona Hubbarda.
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
Toto je príbeh o mladom osirotenom dievčati, Mary, ktoré poslali bývať na koniec sveta k svojmu strýkovi. Mary vedľa tajomného domu však objavila niečo tajné. Neobyčajnú magickú záhradu ukrytú pred očami ostatných.
Katherine Watsonová prichádza v roku 1953 na prestížnu univerzitu Wellesley, kde získala miesto profesorky histórie umenia. Čoskoro zistí, že prostredie na prestížnej škole je veľmi konzervatívne. Jej kolegyňa, profesorka Nancy Abbeyová, nie je jediná, kto si ešte vždy myslí, že zásnubný prsteň je pre mladú ženu omnoho väčšou životnou výhrou než kvalitné vzdelanie. Keď Katherine svoje študentky povzbudzuje, aby začali rozmýšľať nezávisle, dostane sa do konfliktu s ostatnými profesormi, niektorými absolventmi a dokonca aj s jednou zo svojich študentiek - arogantnou Betty Warrenovou.
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.
Príbeh mladého chlapca Edmunda sa odohráva v zničenom Nemecku bezprostredne po druhej svetovej vojne, v období, keď musí krajina a jej obyvatelia začať od nuly. Edmund s rodinou zápasia o každodenný kúsok jedla – až kým Edmund nestretne svojho bývalého učiteľa, ktorý by mu mohol pomôcť. Zdá sa však, že Edmunda vystavuje ešte väčšiemu nebezpečenstvu.
Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack discovers that his wife has tragically died and his children, presumed to be orphans, are heading deep into the West on a train crossing enemy lines, with the intent of being placed into new homes. Calgrove and another soldier team up with a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave as they try to stop the train.
Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history. Inspired by true events.
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.