Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.
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A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous ...
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A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many...
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she fall...
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After a series of catastrophically failed marriages, Apple is single again. Blame on Apple's attachm...
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...
A teenager from an abusive household falls in love with a free-spirited runaway that leads him into ...
An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank ...
An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash ...
A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her a...
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to jus...
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...