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.

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

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's...

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

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 ...

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in th...

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyd...

An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by...

An affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolat...

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle w...

Before her death, Emma reflects on her life; beginning with her childhood, up through her final year...

When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt,...

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.