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.

In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-a...

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions...

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's ...

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...

The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-...

A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...

A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.

John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the mi...

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a uni...

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dea...

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of h...

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...

Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Ric...

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