The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matine...

In 1899, Lord Kang must decide which of his three sons will take over his family's Chinese banking e...

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary ...

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hun...

An unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft with unexpected consequences.

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with ...

The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold Wa...

Dawn is a quiet young teenager who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered lif...

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as thei...

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with...

Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing law...

A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a ps...

Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black famil...

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical p...

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the ...

An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the boh...

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism w...