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.

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

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...

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

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

In 1940, shortly before the outbreak of war, a young boy Marjan lives a carefree life with his gang ...

The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the bab...

A young man returns to his parental home where his mother has lived alone as a widow for many years.

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

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

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

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 an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to ...

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

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

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

A melodramatic story of Lucia, who serves as a charwoman on the Podlogar family's rich farm, and mak...

A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.

Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his p...

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