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.
Maria is a wife and mother in the beautiful, but very remote Connemara region of Ireland. When an ol...
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...
Iris, a teacher in her early forties who works at a Fine Arts School, assigns to her students an exe...
A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care...
Jasmine, who is tomboyish and lazy, is matched through an arranged marriage with a religious man who...
On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husb...
Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hi...
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latime...
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.