Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Also suspected of being a paedophile, he is befriended by Chuck, causing the town's suspicions and hostility to be ignited.

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding...

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

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Mari...

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking hav...

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...

Benjamin, a 16-year-old with lousy grades, switches to a boarding school in order to eventually reac...

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a...

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (Na...

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister ha...

Professor Mirella Buzzati, recovering from a failed relationship that ended with a divorce from her ...

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the...

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a p...

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving ...

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike...

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery...

A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as th...

In a tale set in the rough and tumble world of professional rodeo, an over-the-hill former champion ...

A story of passion, rivalry, love, and friendship. Jan Banas, acclaimed Silesian football player of ...