The Son of Peter the Knife

Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother...

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is...

Franco Adami injures a condescending prostitute to photograph her, but escaped from guilt, causing her death by bleeding.

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest...

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the...

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent...

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.