Raised in opulence and culture, 10 year old Tochtli’s lavish life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father’s criminal activities.

In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster’s crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

A murdered hotel millionaire’s son finds himself tangled up in a game of seduction and murder after a raunchy night with three beautiful women.

The story follows Kadisha Spencer’s dangerous search for her missing father Ike, a notorious drug kingpin. As Kadisha descends into the criminal underworld, she encounters murder, betrayal, and other obstacles in her quest.

Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.

Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life — which he indicates is a state of “emancipated manhood” — thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Boa Viagem Avenue. All the neighboring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot.

When a female guard becomes a prisoner of his mind, a male inmate struggles to keep the truth from escaping.

Wendy and Sean meet on an airplane en route to New York. In a matter of days, they decide to get married.

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.