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

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in th...

At a struggling New York dive bar in the days leading up to Christmas 2019, Chet, a beleaguered bart...

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 boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

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...

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...

16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she imm...

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic ...

Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he...

Xiaofan, a young girl who works at a Karaoke Club, awakes one morning in a remote forest with her bo...

Set in the dense forests of 1940s Eastern Europe, this story reveals the supernatural encounters tha...

"Short" tells the story of Sakhavat who lives in a village, where, according to a tradition, nobody ...