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?

Iain Syme returns to his family’s farmland in the Scottish Borders and attempts to sell it off to a ...

Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...

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 ...

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

Due to negligence that caused the death of a family cow, an extremely poor but handsome young man Iv...

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's...

In the Huasteca of Tamaulipas during the most important dance festival of the region, Julia, Huapang...

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life ar...

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...