Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initially she is reluctant, as Vida is known for constantly distorting the facts of her life, Margaret soon becomes fascinated with the story of a dark childhood, a disturbing tale that leads her to finally confront the traumas of her own past.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but met...
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation...
An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship...
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con...
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal....
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fa...
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...
Elvira goes to summer camp and is scared to death of not making any friends. Mysterious things also ...
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job pro...
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite France...
Ayaka Goma works as a police sergeant. One day, a demonstration is held and a hostage situation occu...