Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of...

Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest...

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...

The Jews are taken from Jerusalem and made slaves by King Nebuchadnezzar. In the meantime Cyrus, king of the Persians, who has been living as a...

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own...

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before...

Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.