In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt…

Göte is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Göte joins up…

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.

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.

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.

The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some…

Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who’s been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not…

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor’s care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen…