Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when...

Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI,...

An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the...

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a...

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the...

A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the...

At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes the blame.

One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty.

At a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered person has been employed by the company - everything...

If the shoemaker Prokop did not know how to sew such wonderful shoes, he would hardly have met a mysterious girl named Serpentia. Prokop is about to...

Six vignettes pit an assortment of characters against each other in everyday situations.

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in one of the toughest Glasgow...

A woman is caught between one man's love and another man's obsession. She fears one and fears for the other. One stands for love and the other for...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...

In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be...

An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

A painter facing a creative block arranges to spend the weekend in the country at his mistress's villa. While staying there, his sanity begins to...