Eva is a widow bored with life, with her job as an architect, with her younger lover, and with her two teenage offspring. She is eventually assigned the job of redesigning the cells of a new prison, but even when her enthusiasm returns a little with the assignment, she is discouraged by the pseudo-intellectual stance of the prison warden and a non-communicative visit to her father. In an act of desperation, she steals some money and a gun - and fully intends to use them both.

At the end of the last century hunters who hunted wild roosters, while waiting for prey to show up, ...

Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many chil...

A coming-of-age story set in Slovenian town during WW2.

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, ...

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

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

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

After forcefully being called to their grandfather's funeral by their abusive mother, our protagonis...

Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tic...

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman livi...

Five years after the death of her wife, an unassuming bookstore owner attempts to accept new love wh...

A post-WW2 story about the village largely involved in wine-making business. The peasants who claime...

Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widow...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever ...

Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a rom...

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friend...