"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his...

In a series of long interviews, 12 prime ministers talk about their experience in the upper echelons of power. The function of prime minister, torn...

After Port Royal is attacked and pillaged by a mysterious pirate crew, capturing the governor's daughter Elizabeth Swann in the process, William...

A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for...

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called "Louis", is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way - much to the dismay of...

In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and...

Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of...

Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever...

A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her...

When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their...

A moving love story in a time of hatred: During the civil war in Kosovo, the young Serbian widow Danica falls in love with Ramiz, a Albanian soldier...

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El...

After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes...

A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French...