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.
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...
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...
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, broodi...
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominic...
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of h...
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restau...
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens i...
Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, ...
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inex...
In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, ro...
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 Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or...
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continu...
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her h...