In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.
Lila, a famous retired singer, loses her memory after suffering an accident, just as she planned her...
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...
A rumor spreads through a small desert town that a girl has been raped. A respected veteran tries to...
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola...
Ana, a young Spanish woman from a bourgeois family, is about to finish her studies and get married, ...
Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the...
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
For the first time in Korean history, the mayor of Seoul attempts a third term in office, with his e...
Seon-woo receives calla every morning and wants to find out who the secret admirer is. One day, he g...
Set in turn of the century Helsinki, author Arvo Helavalla's novel makes an indelible impression on ...
Sherry Graham, a self-destructive makeup saleswoman, hopes a new man and business venture will provi...
Last Call is a fictional account of the final days of exuberant and notorious Welsh poet Dylan Thoma...
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in dis...
Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squi...
Carla gets a call from the small town where she grew up in the South of Spain. Her father, who she h...
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they ca...
Young master Cao Le chases his pregnant girlfriend away from the family castle. He does it in order ...
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for hi...