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.

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...

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...

Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love...

Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each wo...

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

Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night sh...

High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. H...

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after th...

Sleazy director "auditioning" actresses for a movie and trying to get them to commit to more to get ...

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

Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie d...

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then...

When a road construction detour forces former lovers Boyan and Neda to cross paths after seventeen y...

Headly, a 15-year-old teenager, thinks her mother, Rene, has mourned her father's death long enough,...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a c...

Sy Parrish has lovingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But ...