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.

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. ...

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

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by...

Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators in the Philippines, is at a deep moral cro...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her per...

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim ...

In the red light district of Lahore, when the daughter of an underprivileged wedding dancer is raped...

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...

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or...