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.
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...
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgrace...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. Afte...
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dea...
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old ...
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...
Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a rom...
Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friend...
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play ...
David’s life is on the slide: he’s broke, in the middle of a divorce and ‘can’t get it up’. His gir...
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they ...
Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his...
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...
An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-posse...