Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to p...

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill be...

A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined...

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...

Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture o...

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual l...

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. Th...

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arri...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...