A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires ...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 19...

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them...

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...

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

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mou...

When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among th...

Three sisters, Stella, Luce and Aria, live in an isolated house, immersed in the shadows, submitted ...

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In priso...

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by he...

About sixteen-year-old Susanne and her relationship with her parents and friends. To make her friend...