A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer
A South African spinster Jane Birkin murders her father Trevor Howard after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation
Independent diamond broker Howard Chesser and his girlfriend Maren Shirell attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband
In the early 20th Century, devout Reverend Charles Fortesque returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment minister t
In eighteenth century Scotland, during the Jacobite Rebellion, David Balfour claims his inheritance from his uncle who has him shanghaied on a ship where David meets fugitive Jacobite rebel Alan Breck
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site
In Kenya, when young Tina befriends a lion and embraces local customs, her mother summons Tinas American father to help bring Tina back to civilization and give her a civilized upbringing
Tom Jones, a maids son adopted by the nobleman she worked for, now all grown up must run away from home when he is set up by his jealous cousin He has several adventures and women on his way to town where his possi
In Central America, an action adventure novelist and a journalist for a magazine find themselves at the mercy of Nazi war criminals
International narcotics smuggler Frank McNally is trailed through various European countries by U S drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis
As the slave trade is dwindling in East Africa in the late 19th century, two competing slave traders start a brutal violent conflict between each other for the monopoly on the remaining profits
During WW2, convicted bank robber Eddie Chapman becomes a triple agent working for both the British and the Germans
In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences
A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds
A burnt out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester
A young man with artistic talent lives in a close knit coal mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother
After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military The scientists use metal implants to save him Once hes back in t
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist ecologist starts a campaign of public awareness to help save the African elephants from extinction
At a British Regimental party in Colonial India, the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden, and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior Lieutenants of the crime
During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female
During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass on the key to a home port apartment, where a lonely Swiss Italian young war widow lives
An unhappily married British security officer stationed in Sierra Leone during World War II falls in love with a young Austrian woman and starts an affair He soon starts feeling guilty
A middle aged steamboat Captain who believes in a rigorous self control when it comes to needs, desires and emotions, slowly falls for a pretty female stowaway
The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father Amid this man made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire isl
Retired Lawyers amuse themselves by prosecuting, defending and judging a hapless traveler
After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black market smugglers thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policemans murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escap
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime
During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi occupied France
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U K
A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous friends, escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge
A crippled woman takes pleasure in tormenting her son, blaming him for her condition Years later, the son returns home with his wife and newborn only to find himself still under her influence and twisted from her p
During World War II, German ships are safely docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them
An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII
A man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port Hes sacked after hes caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide, and a Captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading p
The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886
In 1940, the Captain of an old Royal Navy destroyer struggles with his crew, as well as the Nazis
Colonel Mostyn of the British Intelligence Service suspects there is a leak in his department and hires an American expatriate to eliminate various targets working for the Soviets
Andrej Kirk Douglas, a smuggler of microfilmed Russian manuscripts, uses the luggage of unsuspecting travellers to transport the contraband out of the country