Christina Elliott is concerned about her cousin's relationship with a snake dancer. Many complications ensue until a happy ending for almost all.

The wanton dancer Thais, tries to entice Paphnutius from becoming a monk but fails. He later returns to reclaim her soul and follow in his footsteps....

An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Desperate, he robs a rich man's home and is arrested....

Set in London (but filmed in New Jersey), the story endeavors to prove that man's greatest enemy is liquor. When elderly tosspot John Warriner is...

A daughter and devious ex-wife complicate an executive's marriage to his secretary.

An American Indian child, maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople, accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies. There, local...

Hidalgo offers his daughter's hand in marriage when he can't repay a loan to Manuella. But when Manuella overhears the daughter bidding farewell to...

Seven years after the death of their first child, a couple has grown apart and decides to divorce. Their second child asks a question about who will...

A story of duplicity, ambition and misunderstandings when four peoples lives become intertwined in a quest for a political appointment.

Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to perform the perilous task of burning the...

A press agent helps a honky tonk spot draw a new elite patronage but a troublemaker arrives on the scene as well and disrupts the romance between the...

A young boy aspires to knowledge and higher education but his father, a plain man with narrow goals, is content with an ordinary school education for...

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks...

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and...

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her...

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this...

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring...

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady....