As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernization, the Widow Karolina wishes she had become a mother. As difficult as things are for her, they are nonetheless much more difficult for her more-conservative and less-thoughtful neighbors.

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is fou...

Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the de...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

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

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism...

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

Events take place in an isolated mountaineous village where a rabid dog bites the son of Fatime. The...

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, find that their chances at marriage s...

Devdas, the son of a zamindar, and Parvati, his neighbour's daughter, are childhood sweethearts. How...

A toxic spill threatens the town of Urtajo: tackle the problem or cover it up? Javier will learn tha...

Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his p...

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship...

Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in t...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...