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Vienna, 1854. Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph is to marry his cousin Helene of Bavaria. The marriage is arranged, as is customary. But he fell in love at first sight with his fiancée’s younger sister, Elizabeth, then aged 16. Normally a disciplined son, he defies his mother Archduchess Sophie and demands to marry “Sisi”. The Archduchess […]

Darwen (Lancashire), 1879. James Walsh, a local businessman, boss of the football team, hires two players from a Scottish team, Fergus Suter and Jimmy Love. He pays them, breaking the rules of the Football Academy (FA). Professional players were not allowed. Football was initially played by gentlemen only, who were not exhausted by their workday

Greer and Tag Winbury are the perfect couple. They’re very wealthy, have been married for 29 years and have three beautiful sons. The eldest, Tom, is married and his wife is pregnant. The youngest, Will, is approaching 18. The second, Benji, has met Amelia, the woman of his dreams. Greer, a best-selling author, is about

Around 870 AD. Uthred is the son of the lord of Bebbanburg, a fortress in Northumbria, north of present-day York. Situated on the coast, the fortress was under constant attack from the “Danes” (Vikings). Uthred’s father is killed during one of the raids, and his uncle took advantage of the situation to seize power, while

Stéphane Blé is a youth activity leader in a poor suburb of Paris. He’s a gentle dreamer who knows how to keep the fragile flame of hope alive in disillusioned young people. In their neighborhoods, it’s often either drugs or unemployment that await them, or both. But when the town’s mayor, a candidate in the

After a breakup, Jess needs a new apartment. On her schoolteacher’s salary, she can only afford to share. That’s how she ends up in the loft shared by three young men, childhood friends. Jess isn’t quite the roommate they were expecting, but Nick instantly falls for her and forces his friends to agree. Crazy, ingenuous,

San Francisco, 1962. Since the nazis dropped an atomic bomb on Washington in 1946, the USA have been divided in three areas. The East is ruled by the Reich, the Pacific Coast by the Japanese. Between the two remains a “neutral zone”, still free but poor and open to all smuggling businesses. In San Francisco,

Twenty years after the murder of Bruce Wayne’s parents, Gotham is still a mess. With the help of his butler Alfred Pennyworth, the Batman relentlessly fights crime. He is not alone, though. There are still a few people left with integrity and determination. The commissioner Gordon, his daughter Barbara, a defense lawyer, and Montoya, one

Ted Mosby, a father of two teenagers, wants to tell his children the story of how he met their mother. As young architect in New York in the 2000’s, he was desperate to meet the love of his life. Too desperate, maybe… When he met Robin, a Canadian girl freshly arrived, he told her “I

Pip Fitz-Amobi thinks she’s found a great idea for her college preparatory essay. Five years ago, Andie Bell, a student like her, disappeared. Sal Singh, her boyfriend, confessed the murder and took his own life. But Andie’s body was never found. Pip has some doubts, though. She decides to investigate herself, and narrate what she