When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.
Susanne, a meteorologist Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate ...
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g...
Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back th...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks hi...
When unsuccessful actress Clarissa returns to her hometown for a wedding and tries to impress her ol...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
When a dinner party descends into a vicious sibling argument between Tom and Emily, their partners J...
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may ...
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husba...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of h...
Rahul Seth is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his m...