The Spectator

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is...

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

Seems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another's company. None...

A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run...

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives...

Angi Vera is a young nursing assistant in a hospital. When she speaks out against the appalling conditions, she is reprimanded, but the Communist...

A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each...

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak...

Marcia is young woman who leads a gray and unremarkable life in the city of Buenos Aires. Mao and Lenin are a couple of punk girls who stumble upon...

A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form intellect by living...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert...

A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the...