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.
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite France...
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, ...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she ...
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To c...
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...
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...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
Stella Davis is a widow who saves her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd of wild ...
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
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...