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...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgrace...
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 story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flas...
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a...
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London ...
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...
Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his bro...
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever ...
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away fro...
In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indian...
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What ...