Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to ...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

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When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling...

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in al...

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while i...

A divorced advertising executive finds her career in jeopardy when she begins a passionate relations...

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of ...

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attemp...

Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, To...

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertr...

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with ...