A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.
Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...
A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
A college volunteer at the crisis phone gets a call from a suicide caller.
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself...
The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a ...
Julian Berniers and Lily Prine have just gotten married. They have been in Chicago on business before returning to their home town of New Orleans, where they will meet with Julian's older ...
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a ...
A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.
Larry and Kitty are two middle-class suburbanites who find themselves growing bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other grating in manner, they ...