The Count of the Old Town: Bergman had her first speaking role in this ensemble comedy, as a chambermaid seduced by a suspected jewel thief. Walpurgis night: Tackling the subject of Sweden's declining birth rate, this topical drama features Bergman as a virtuous young woman who becomes entangled in a sordid love triangle. Intermezzo: Gustaf Molander's swooning romance, about an ill-starred affair, made Bergman a star in Sweden, and she would go...

"Do concepts life war and enemies hold a people together? Does conflict have an irresistible cultural momentum? These are the questions the cartoonist Cathy Malkasian explores in Temperance. After a brutal injury sustained in battle, Lester has no memory of his prior life. For the next thirty years his wife does everything to keep him from remembering-- and re-constructing-- a society, Blessedbowl, that has since elevated him as a hero. Blessedbowl...

In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer, who has a terrible secret.v.

"Serve un pizzico di follia per inseguire, nella vita, quello che a tutti appare un sogno irragionevole. Questa storia si sviluppa a Sarajevo, in piena guerra fratricida della ex Jugoslavia, nell'estate del 1992, quando i cecchini sono appostati dietro ogni persiana, le granate dilaniano interi quartieri, persino arrampicarsi su un albero può essere letale: c'è chi muore perché non ha saputo resistere alla tentazione delle ciliegie. Con la ferita...

Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco to start a farm. While Amine tries to cultivate the rocky and unforgiving terrain, Mathilde feels suffocated by the harsh climate. Alone and isolated with her two children, she struggles with assimilation and classism.

"The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat--and a riveting tale of survival in wartime Germany. Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents' intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimee, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron,...