Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for ...

Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a...

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use inste...

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving b...

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongin...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the h...

Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic b...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...

Kyoko Otonashi is a 22-year-old widow. Six months have passed since the sudden death of her husband,...

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San...

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...

A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty year...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her ad...

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

Before WWII: Dr. Hasenbein lives with his son Peter in a small town. Aunt Uschi's orphanage houses m...