An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "...

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he ...

During the end of the world, two best friends walk around their city, talking about their sex lives,...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...
Beneath the Surface introduces readers to the story of the wealthy Kingsley family of Southern Calif...

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl...

A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Kent, who has ...

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgr...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who u...

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expe...

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Val...

Fisher Willow is the disliked Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for n...

A wide variety of Iraqis in exile meet at Café Abu Nawas in London, including the architect Amal, th...

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faul...