Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire moves to Los Angeles. Adrift and detached, she spends her days and nights wandering through her new city, cynically remarking on the hypocrisy, vanity and brutality of the modern world and humanity's alienation from themselves and each other.

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil...

A divorced advertising executive finds her career in jeopardy when she begins a passionate relations...

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old co...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continu...

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...

Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one conc...

A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation...

A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him...

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son ...

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Chris...

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from a...

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dign...

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in mus...

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffin...