The Lesson

A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.

The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the...

Following political upheaval, traditionally poor countries have stopped exporting raw materials. The Western world is entering an economic crisis,...

A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a money launderer, his seductive wife, and his...

Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of...

After the death of his parents, teenager Max discovers in himself an unusual ability to move into other people, penetrating into their minds. The...

Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.

On Declan's sixth birthday, his baby brother Michael dies in his crib from sudden infant death syndrome. His birthday forgotten, and not...

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic...

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

The story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves...