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.
An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship...
A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious...
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a n...
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation tra...
A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting wi...
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite France...
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean...
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in s...
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...
Inheriting his father's alcoholism, Lawyer Tom Gallatin goes into the woods to rehabilitate himself....
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
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...
A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade schoo...
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, w...