Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.
Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.
It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ...
A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.
In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.
Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.
Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...
An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.