A group of young people residing in Alexandria suffers from the governor’s tyranny. As they try to get rid of him, they launch a campaign to...

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des...

Emily decides to air the skeletons in her closet and brave the scrutiny of a catty dinner party to win back her name.

Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally...

Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After...

During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

A New York City writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in...

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown...

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous...

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.

A newlywed couple turns to a scientist for help having a baby and find themselves at the center of a genetic puzzle with far reaching implications...

An excellent female college student attending the university's medical school. She developed a mutual liking for a boy who was a classmate of hers at...

The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked...

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

18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets...

A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid...

The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the...