Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
Six different episodes about different generations' relationships. Love can be sweet, sour, or spicy...
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a ...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi...
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino....
Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young marrie...
Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple, ...
After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith are stu...
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill be...
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her ...
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absen...
Doug and Amber were madly in love and married during their college years. Driven by the "dream" of a...
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...
Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courte...
Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ba...
Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...