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A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

On her latest assignment, a journalist for Elle immerses herself in a prostitution ring run by university students.

An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.

A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

After moving to the French countryside with her husband, the British beauty Gemma Bovery draws the attention of a local baker who finds in the moving couple a resemblance to the heroes of Madame Bovary.

It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...

1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world.

After returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son. A struggle with loneliness and adapting to the new situation ensues.

Béatrice has written a book telling the story of her new life with her husband Frédéric. For the past five years following a scooter accident, he has been blind and has had major side-effects: He says everything that is on his mind.

Anna Bouverie (Lindsay Duncan, Rome) chafes at her limited life as a vicar's wife in a small English town. When her husband Peter (Jonathan Coy, from the Horatio Hornblower series) is passed over for a promotion and her daughter is bullied at school, Anna gets a job at a supermarket in another town--a small act of independence that sets off gossip, domestic fights, and worse. When Anna meets another man who seems to understand her frustrations, she stumbles into an affair. The Rector's Wife, in its broad outlines, combines a romance novel plot with feminist themes, but its real strength is the richness of the characters, both in the writing and the performances. Duncan's performance is wonderfully three-dimensional and seemingly background character keep popping out with vivid details (Prunella Scales, Fawlty Towers, and Pam Farris, Rosemary & Thyme, have great scenes). This four-episode mini-series is sort of a British version of An Unmarried Woman--less concerned with psychology and more attuned to the social pressures of a small town, but nonetheless an engaging portrait of a woman struggling towards independence.

Inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sokurov's Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma's decline and fall, including affairs with an aristocratic and a student. Focusing on passion from a woman's perspective and downplaying plot, Sokurov explores his subject in exquisite detail, capturing not only the heat of passion but also the quiet moments before and after and the innocent sensuousness of the body. ( Original Title - Spasi i sokhrani)

When Rome was still in its infancy, Carthage was the dominant power of the Mediterranean. As Rome grew, Carthage remained its only great rival. It was that rivalry that drove Rome to utterly destroy Carthage, and massacre its people.

This documentary about the Holocaust is from the point of view of those who had the courage to save their fellow human beings from persecution and death.

In the winter of 1994 in the French suburbs, Léo and Baptiste, two polar opposite students, meet up one evening to work on a school presentation.

At the end of January 1857, Gustave Flaubert was sitting in the dock of the sixth correctional chamber of Paris, accused of insulting public morality and religion because of his novel "Madame Bovary". However, it is above all Emma Bovary, the character of the book who is accused and, through her, all women who dare to follow their desires in a conservative patriarchal society. Flaubert will be acquitted and the success of his novel assured. It will leave a great imprint in the society, discussed by writers or interpreters of the role of Emma Bovary, whose story has given rise to numerous film adaptations.

J.R. pressures Alan to marry Lucy soon. Cliff is depressed and Pamela asks Bobby to help him find a job. Jock offers Alan a wedding gift that spoils J.R.'s plans.

Feech makes a pain of himself by trying to return to his past glory. Carmela tries to work with Anthony's teacher to rein in their out-of-control son.

Emily and Richard are delighted when Lorelai and Christopher attend Friday night dinner together as a couple. Christopher reveals that Sherry has written him a letter saying she regrets leaving their daughter, G.G., and asking him to send G.G. to visit her in Paris. Lorelai can't believe that Chris would consider this and they get into an argument over dinner. Logan returns to town on business to acquire an internet company and pays Rory a surprise visit. Rory is thrilled, but during a dinner with Logan's colleagues, she realizes that she has no connection to his new business world, and is especially threatened by one of his beautiful co-workers. Meanwhile, Stars Hollow is plagued by a terrible odor when a train with a full load of pickles derails, and Taylor refuses to pay for the cleanup.