Arriving in Taiwan in the 1950s, Kuei-mei makes a disadvantageous marriage to a widower with three unruly kids and a bad gambling habit. Beautifully portrayed by celebrated actress Yang, she weathers pregnancies, her husband's infidelity, her daughter's resentment, a stint as servant in Japan, divorce, and illness while struggling to keep the family restaurant business afloat.

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

Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns b...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Bo...

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood ...

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...

Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the...

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and mainta...

A solitary Foley Artist secretly films his neighbor and reconstructs the sounds of her life, while c...

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the si...

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German cit...

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

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with th...

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...

In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the c...

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

A married woman, who has set aside her dreams for the sake of her husband and daughter, rediscovers ...