The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the baby are driven from the home by the woman's irate in-laws when the truth is discovered. Even after the child is grown, no contact is allowed between he and his mother who now denies the events of her past.

In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost ...

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, find that their chances at marriage s...

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...

Rahul Seth is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his m...

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where t...

A young man returns to his parental home where his mother has lived alone as a widow for many years.

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...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to ...

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakista...

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever ...