From Paris in the 1960s to London in the first decade of the third millennium, Madeleine and her daughter Véra flit from one amorous adventure to the next, living for the moment and taking all the opportunities that life offers. But not every love affair is without its consequences, its upsets and its disappointments. As time goes by and gnaws away at one’s deepest feelings, love becomes a harder game to play.

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....

The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse...

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid durin...

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair ...

'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Col...

Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player ...

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York a...

A simple typewriter is familiar with a garage-facing young man, who is recommended to be a big busin...

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web ...

A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerla...

In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi...

In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others ...

For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time...

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of ...

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitut...