A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman’s husband dies suddenly.

Pickpocket Kitty’s life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.

Tokiko patiently awaits her husband’s return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to the doctor but has no means of paying, so she resorts…

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

In 19th-century France, doctor’s wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but…

When a busybody teacher in a girls’ finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it’s all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor…

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker’s assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid…

When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who’s well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was…

A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.