During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forces him to return to Italy in a daring way and to be hospitalized urgently.

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul,...

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use inste...

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit countr...

Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother...

Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist fin...

In the quiet villa, a girl cares for her ailing father, a man confronting the weight of his past as ...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to tak...

The lives of Anna, Paul and their little son Thomas seem perfect from the outside. Paul has a well-p...

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who st...

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of...

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic vic...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the h...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her ad...