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.
Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by mea...
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...
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating yo...
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...
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...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made rout...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him...
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters ...
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...
An art professor is informed that the husband she thought died ten years before has just been murder...
A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been to...