Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides for the household through his trade in meat declared unfit for human consumption. This situation has sufficed for years but the dedication with which Jacob watches over his little sister leaves her no room to mature as a woman...

Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr....

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. Th...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited ...

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose ...

In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer h...

A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's ...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 19...

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised ...

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of sca...

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ra...