A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
A nobleman in 1830's Finland has to contend with stuck-up relatives, his daughters' suitors, dark se...
A group of friends decides to escape their mundane life by documenting their lives as they search fo...
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's re...
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug deale...
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness...
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...
Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He love...
London is a drug laden adventure that centers on a party in a New York loft where a young man is try...
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar r...
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and d...
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Du...
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime afte...
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...
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...