An orphaned girl, adopted by a blind lighthouse keeper, finds her way by understanding the dual life of a 19th-century clergyman—a man split between public duty and private love—whose story helps her find her own light and love.
A veteran spy, nearing retirement, races against a leak investigation to protect his African wife and the secrets he holds, facing the personal cost of loyalty in a world where trust is a deadly luxury.
After a 1937 ethnic cleansing, a Haitian maid's dream of marriage and returning home with her lover is shattered, forcing her into a desperate fight for survival against the Dominican Republic's genocidal fury.
In the desolate town of Knockemstiff, steroid-fueled fathers, incestuous siblings, and psychotic recluses navigate their bleak, interconnected lives with raw resilience.
A single mugging ripples through the lives of seemingly disparate Londoners, unraveling marriages, sparking illicit affairs, and forging unexpected connections in a domino effect of human entanglements.
A World War II colonel, scarred by war, finds a final love with a young Italian countess in Venice, confronting his past with the resilience of the human spirit.
Under the guillotine's shadow and the revolution's fervor, three men—Danton, Robespierre, and Desmoulins—navigate love, betrayal, and the bloody birth of a new France.
In the desolate East Anglian Fens, a history teacher's meandering narrative of eels, incest, madness, and murder unravels his family's tormented legacy and the relentless, cyclical nature of history itself.
A man's past resurfaces with the unexpected arrival of his deceased mistress's widower, igniting a psychological duel of guilt, jealousy, and morbid fascination.
A young filmmaker becomes obsessed with a mysterious immigrant patriarch and his three sons who live in a Greenwich Village mansion, uncovering their opulent lives, dark secrets, and a nation's political chaos.
A middle-aged professor, adrift in the quiet comforts of his new, too-large house, finds himself haunted by the vivid memory of a brilliant, ill-fated student and the untamed beauty of the American Southwest.
In a Seattle gripped by fear, a serial killer scalping white men and leaving a pair of crossed feathers ignites a city-wide manhunt, exposing the raw nerves and simmering tensions within its Native American community.
A man's idyllic life is shattered when the secrets he's kept hidden for thirteen years are finally unearthed, forcing him and his small town to confront a devastating past.
"The Mezzanine" turns a simple escalator ride into a funny, detailed journey through the hidden ideas behind shoelaces, milk cartons, and our everyday existence.
A grieving writer finds an unexpected friend in her reclusive neighbor in a remote Swedish village, as shared meals and dangerous memories connect their solitary lives.
When twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, her working-class Dublin family, especially her bewildered dad, must grapple with their own prejudices and the prying eyes of their community.
A reclusive French aristocrat, haunted by revolution, journeys through early 19th-century America, observed and illustrated by his enigmatic English companion, Parrot.
Bob Slocum's mind unravels amid corporate absurdities, domestic anxieties, and sexual fantasies in a successful yet suffocating life, all moving toward an unnamed catastrophe.
In early 20th-century Paris, a young Danish poet, Malte Laurids Brigge, struggles with his aristocratic past and the terror of modern life, seeing death everywhere as his own identity fades.
A Nebraska farm boy, stifled by a loveless marriage and a world that offers no outlet for his idealism, finds his purpose and a sense of belonging in the Great War.
