Stendahl's brilliant satirical portrait of post-Revolutionary French society, now in a new adaptation for the state. From the garden of a small provincial town to the dazzling salons of Paris, THE RED AND THE BLACK is the sweeping tale of Julian Sorel, a handsome young tutor determined to climb the social ladder despite his lowly birth. Burning with ambition, Julian sacrifices love and ideals for money and power - but is hopelessly captive of his own romantic soul.

Set in a backwater Louisiana town during World War II, The Cover of LIFE introduces Kate, a savvy reporter assigned to write a morale-boosting story. The article is scheduled to become a LIFE magazine feature focusing on the wives left behind, particularly three women married to three brothers who enlisted in three different branches of the service on the same day. The young war brides have moved in with their no-nonsense mother-in-law But as the big city journalist quickly learns, the home fires are burning — and growing increasingly out of control. Poignant and bittersweet, what begins as a picture-perfect vision of patriotism becomes a smoldering portrait of misplaced hopes and harbored dreams.

Jody's map shop is his haven. He never leaves it, preferring to bury his head in the sands of the Gobi and the Sahara deserts rather than face the world outside his door. Plagued by nightmares, he welcomes visits from his jovial friend Carl, who with each successive visit mysteriously leaves a chair in his wake. As the chairs pile up, Jody and Carl gradually reveal the fear that threatens to engulf their lives. With a nod to the absurdist style of Ionesco, Lonely Planet tells a warm and humorous tale of two men trying desperately to come to grips with a world of frightening uncertainty.

In this dark and menacing comedy, Tommy, a rookie salesman of home- security systems, is taught to prey on our terror of a world ruled by evil chance. “Fear,” his boss tells him,”sells itself.” Tommy pitches the product with all the zeal of a new convert. He locks in the sale to his first customer, but falls in love with her in the process. Little does he suspect that he is part of an alarming scheme to boost sales by raising the crime rate — and his girlfriend is in the line of fire.

Stepping into this nightmare is john Calvin, the 16th-century theologian who rants about predestination, sin and depravity, tossing in a few hilarious words of advice to Beaver Cleaver and an occasional movie review as well.

A twilight zone of relentless paranoia, Life During Wartime is frightening, yes. But against your will, you’ll laugh like there‘s no tomorrow.

War-torn China: from the front lines to the inner sanctums, she was there. The year is 1937. Reporting from guerrilla headquarters, journalist Agnes Smedley is granted an interview with the Red Army’s charismatic leader in exchange for teaching folkclances to the troops. As General Chu Teh recalls the hardships of his peasant past, Agnes is flooded with memories of her own - and finds with Chu a kinship of the heart and mind she’d traveled the globe to discover. Drawing on Eastern and Western traditions in music and theatre, the stories of Agnes and Chu unfold in intertwining vignettes that weave in and out of time.

A magical musical confection that puts an enchanting spin on the age-old battle of the sexes. Beauty and the Beast crash a suburban English garden party when they are conjured up by a disenchanted artist and his ex-wife. The fairy tale collides with reality for a fanciful cliff hanger that raises hilarious new questions about “happily ever after.”