A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...

Four people with different values and standards meet in the urban chaos of Copacabana. Rita and Wald...

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. ...

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckil...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, t...

Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love an...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to i...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...

A rich teenager runs away from home and joins a group of street hustlers who go on a road trip to fu...

A small craftsman disappears, his brother, a grocer, searches for him and… to his surprise, he finds...

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corrupt...

After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Feli...

Clermont-Ferrand, central France. Médéric meets and falls in love with middle-aged sex worker Isador...

Subhash Nagre runs a parallel government in the city where he has a cult following. When his enemies...

The hardships of modern life for one of the families, unhappy in its own way and at the same time re...

A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not...

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this i...

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas...

A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prosti...