Young widow Li Jingqin is struggling to put her son Du Shaoxiong through school with her meagre income. Bullied by the landlady, Du spends his days wandering the streets where he is lured by a gang to commit crimes. Fortunately, Du has a heart of gold.
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, ...
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energet...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
A by-the-book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told ...
An art professor is informed that the husband she thought died ten years before has just been murder...
Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a ne...
Stella Davis is a widow who saves her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd of wild ...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of th...
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...