The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.
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Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district a...
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...
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Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...
Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, ...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her ad...
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
A father’s moral principles are in question. A dreadful disease threatens his young daughter’s life ...