Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before sh...

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United...

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydr...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night h...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, thro...

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two ...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

Two angels glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisib...

The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.

Five random strangers find themselves trapped in an elevator in the World Trade Center's North Tower...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the author...

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearb...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reali...