A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and Br...
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has ...
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten ...
Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more th...
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertake...
When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respe...
A reflection on the intangible experience of grief, January Hymn sees Clara return home for the firs...
Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend ...
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled m...
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is bei...
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and mak...
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes...
Two girls from different backgrounds, one an immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl who needs to...
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel...
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than ...
A woman prisoner is harshly incarcerated and suddenly released.
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the d...