One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of her siblings, the first in her family to go to school and full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly appears that something is wrong. As night falls and the labour progresses, Lise begins to understand that a day that began in childhood might end with her becoming the woman of the house.

Erica has a secret relationship to the married Sebastian. When his wife Liv finds out, she decides t...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...

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

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

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

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...

Antonin and Leonor are hunting larks. He is as submissive as his sister is voracious. One day, a dog...

A nurse's aid, Cathy lives alone. Too alone. When her sister, with whom she's had a falling-out, cal...

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a l...