A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a village steal into the bedrooms of susceptible women to have sex.
In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in al...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia d...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgrace...
A housemaid, working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a ...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and toget...
Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon ...
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...
Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to li...
A former rodeo star, now a motel manager, meets a young man who is responsible for the violence that...
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...