The Sheriff

Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is...

In the patriarchal system every sex act is actually a kind of rape?

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its...

A teenage couple drive around improvising radio shows, following night stalkers and rapists or peeping on various sexual escapades, describing what...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience...

A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book....

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to...

Beto, a young gigolo playboy, convinces his friends to break into a house to rape Marlene, a wealthy woman. They can not complete the mission, but...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry....

Siblings Johanne and Simon enjoy their youth in Copenhagen with shared parties, friends and an apartment. Everything changes when Johanne...

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously...

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their...

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their...

Fourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the...

The life and experiences of Susanne Brink, an adult Korean adoptee from Sweden who suffered abuse and racism in her adoptive home and country.