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.

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

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch...

On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agr...

Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the lov...

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mans...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...

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

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...

Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in Mo...

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 ...

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