A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...

Cecco Angiolieri has joined, as storytellers and acrobats, the traveling company of Camillo. The stu...

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think...

In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more ...

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and st...

Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary an...

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found sh...

An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasa...

Young Matula has succumbed to gambling and he steals money from his parents to finance his passion. ...

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the ...

Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'lov...

The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of ...

For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dra...

Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.

In the 1980s, the building themes were transformed into bipolar moral dilemmas involving overly ambi...

A girl named Clara lives in an amazing fairy world inhabited by dwarfs, dragons and sorcerers. Aston...

After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling pr...

The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear dest...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...