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.

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...

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...

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his cla...

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...

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and...

After the passing of his wife, a lonely newspaper editor discovers Berenalin: a medication that prom...

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...

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 gay couple realizes they aren't sexually compatible, so they look for a third man. But when betray...

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...