A middle-age man, in small-town Middle America, lives a momentous year in the mid-20th century.

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with charming…

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she’s immediately attracted….

Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children’s books. Now,…

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier’s Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes…

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of…

At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie,…

Tells the story of a night in the life of two psychology students who find out that the term’s major essay is due in the next morning.

A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.

A ne’re-do-well man, a beautiful girl, and her one-legged body-guard/family servant are the sole survivors—they think—of a ship wreck and make it to a uninhabited south-seas island. The influence of…