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.

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...

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

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...

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

During a general cleaning weekend in his village house an old cemetery groundskeeper discovers that ...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arri...

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

A resourcefull working-class woman living in Madrid gets her hands dirty in family secrets with the ...

A young barber comes to the small village to open a barbershop. He gradually gets to know with the l...

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friend...

The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the bab...

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...