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.
A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been to...
An art professor is informed that the husband she thought died ten years before has just been murder...
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...
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...
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...
Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige mo...
Debbie was already pregnant in Indonesia before she was married to Taiwan. Her useless husband has n...
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...
Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name. Jack London has struggled with alcoholism most...
Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...