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.

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicat...

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...

A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".

Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in ...

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme...

Caught in a seedy underworld of lies, lust and murder, Antonelli, the local mob boss, and his sultry...

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after ...

When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to ...

Erika and Cecil are twins who were separated by poverty right after they were born. Each of them is ...

Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six mont...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bot...

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...

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

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle re...

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while...

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.