Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between t...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...

In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where...

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

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

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist ...

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white worl...

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Mar...

In order to support her son, single-mother works at a bar that operates an undisclosed adult enterta...

After the passing of his wife, a lonely newspaper editor discovers Berenalin: a medication that prom...

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...

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

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

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