When asked for her real name, the feisty woman in a rural whorehouse would quip, "Ligaya. It means joy. And that's what I sell." Yet the small-town prostitute is not resigned that she would be in the flesh trade forever. She still harbors the dream of getting out of the job someday. She saves money and fancies that someone would come and marry her as if she were clean and never been a whore. That becomes almost a reality when a hardworking farmer enters her life. Under some problematic circumstances, her chances get blown away-but not exactly of her sole doing.

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their...

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I,...

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as...

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

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. Bu...

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...

Carla's (Rita Magdalena) sister commits suicide. Devastated, she decides to go to the province.. whe...

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday ...

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. Th...