A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding...

1930. Adelaide is fed up with Paris and founds a 'retreat' for her women friends in a Breton port. They live well and take their pleasure seriously,...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the...

Rahul Seth is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his mother and grandmother. They are not too keen...

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they...

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist."...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname...

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it...

The movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who...

The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming...

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her...

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a...

In the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the...

A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together, the two of them manage to get through...

Army volunteers train for places in China's 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit.

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

A former boxer turned parking lot attendant finds hope in the love of the blind telemarketer who walks into his booth one day.