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.
25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One d...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam ...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, th...

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde...

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is fou...

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominic...

Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, ...

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...