For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her days engaged in tedious housework, crafting verse and conversing with her aunt. But while her body may be committed to drudgery, Stevie's mind is constantly trying to break free, which causes her to rail against religion and middle-class values, and prevents her from finding happiness with a man interested in her.

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Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...

Unable to strike up a conversation with anyone at a party, a young man takes desperate measures to g...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it...

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and d...

After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns t...

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...

Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of findin...

Mexican actress Lupe Vélez's final hours as she overdoses on Seconal.

Two sisters navigating the no man's land between childhood and adulthood have to deal with the conse...

After an 18-year hiatus from acting, Sherihan returns to the stage to portray Coco Chanel, the renow...

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three y...

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...

New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheava...

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshi...

Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel g...

To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseille, France, far...

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...