After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-...
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his p...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...
Jonathan and Evelyn were lovers 30 years ago but have been estranged ever since because Evelyn left ...
Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair...
A young brahmin boy studying in a village away from home and a young widow isolated by her condition...
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to ...
As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernizati...
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flas...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...