A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.

In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer h...
General arrives in Baden-Baden with his stepdaughter Polina and his mother, seeking social standing ...

Filipino-born Ella works as a nanny in a prosperous Moscow family. Day by day, she carries out the s...

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess...

Laura, an unemployed writer in New York City, tries to juggle an unexciting boyfriend, an affair wit...

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusin...

A writer with a writer's block is tormented by his lack of inspiration. His girlfriend shows up and ...

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr...

When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chan...

The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influe...

A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.

When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themse...

Fleeing from the image of his boyfriend who recently committed suicide, Leo arrives in England in or...

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passi...

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented...

Spiker & Cobakka are two self-confessed 'pieces of Moscow scum' who come to London to rip it off. Th...

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the me...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...

A writer meets five widows on a train to Puri. As the six lives begin to intertwine, the theme of th...

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...