Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois a...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in al...
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires...
In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of th...
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...
The fates of three entwined families. Joséphine and Tomas have just got married. It was a joyful cel...
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer ...
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by ...
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...
The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed under...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a l...
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...