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.

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

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of...

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...

Ralf wakes up sick on his birthday, so he wants to rest at home. However, there he is disturbed by v...

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit countr...

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul,...

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

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

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

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

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

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of wome...

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic vic...

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...

Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist fin...

After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to tak...

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

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a s...

Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an i...