Shanti finds blood in her underwear at the worst possible time. Against the backdrop of a Tamil coming-of-age ceremony where fertility is celebrated, menstruation is shunned and infertility is silenced, Shanti struggles to keep a secret.
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at whic...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g...
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a l...
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's...
A family goes to a village near Mangalore to finalize a bride for the elder son, Lucky, played by Pa...
Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks hi...
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses ...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marri...
To celebrate their engagement, Thea takes Jashan home — but his Indian roots and her family's Norweg...
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was ...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman...
A newly-wed man discovers that his wife is in love with another man and decides to unite them. Ignor...
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst Europea...
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahome...