Christopher Isherwood

It is the city of Berlin in 1930, a time when political unrest racks the country, the economy has been destroyed, and millions of unemployed roam the streets. Enter into this chaos an American cabaret dancer, working at the downtown "Kit-Kat club". Into this young dancer's life come several characters such as a rich German politician, a young Jewish man struggling with his identity, an Englishman teacher from London, and of course the all-knowing, all-seeing Master of Ceremonies.

Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery. (imdb)

A more psychological telling of the Mary Shelley story has a different kind of monster... (imdb)

During World War II an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. But he meets Susan Trimble who lives in the house and who is strictly against the sale. While they spend the night in an air-raid shelter she tells him the story of the building from it's construction in 1804 until present day. (imdb)

A young writer goes to Monte Carlo to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church poor box in order to feed his compulsion. (imdb)

Old friends Ward and Phillip both become smitten with Phillip's mother's attractive young secretary Stella. But Stella marries Phillip and stands by him as his behavior becomes more and more erratic and his jealousy of Ward increases. (imdb)

A 52 year old British college professor is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim.

A beautiful woman serving as advisor to the King of France falls for his son. (TCM.com)

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes to be intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching a sailor known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor, while Louis de Mozambique, after a stop in Africa, joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind. (imdb)

Film forms the basis for Bob Fosse's masterpiece 'CABARET'. It tells the story of Sally Bowles in a non-musical context.

The divinely decadent Berlin cabaret scene is in full swing when a young and wide-eyed Isherwood arrives in the city to stay with his friend and occasional lover, WH Auden. To Isherwood's reserved English sensibility, the city's thriving gay subculture is thrilling and intoxicating. But Isherwood soon finds himself heartbroken after the failure of a hopeless love affair, and so sets out on a process of self-discovery as he forges an identity and place for himself amidst the chaos of 1930s Berlin (BBC)

The liberated daughter of a 1905 minister innocently starts a scandal. (imdb)

A filmed stage production of the classic musical. (imdb)