The story of a janitor's daughter who married into a "better man". Obedient to her mother and eager to "rise up" herself, Nanynka did everything she...

An old peasant from Chodský, Záhor, claims to the young Podestát that he returned three hundred gold pieces to his father before...

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed...

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go...

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as...

The story of Pierluigi Torregiani, a Milanese jeweler who in 1979 was killed in revenge by the Armed Proletarians for Communism after killing one of...

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but...

In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population....

A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love...

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement...

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an...

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he...

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan,...

Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money—until one day, she meets a university...