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A young priest in the mountains above Lake Lugano is sent to deal with a family of outcasts living in sin on the slopes of Monte Generoso, and is undone by the eldest daughter.
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The Pastoral Symphony
A Protestant pastor in the Swiss Jura takes in Gertrude, a blind, abandoned orphan girl, and in his journal tells how he taught her to see the world, and how he came to love her.
Elias Portolu
Elias Portolu comes home to his Sardinian village after prison on the mainland and falls in love with Maddalena, the girl his brother is about to marry.
The Mother
In a remote Sardinian mountain village, the mother of the young parish priest learns that her son, for whom she gave up everything, is visiting a lonely woman at night.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
L'Arrabbiata
On the coast near Sorrento, Laurella, a proud young woman who has sworn never to marry, is rowed across to Capri by Antonino, a boatman who has loved her from afar.
Chéri
Léa de Lonval, a celebrated courtesan nearing fifty, has kept Chéri, the beautiful son of an old friend, as her lover for six years, and his mother has arranged for him to marry a young heiress.
Thousand Cranes
At a tea ceremony held by his late father's mistress, Kikuji is offered a bride, and begins an affair with another of his father's former lovers, Mrs Ota.
Thaïs
Paphnuce, a desert monk in fourth-century Egypt, resolves to save the soul of Thaïs, the celebrated courtesan of Alexandria he once desired.
Lust, Caution
In occupied Shanghai, Wong Chia-chi, a young student actress, is drawn into a plot to seduce and assassinate Mr Yee, a collaborator in the puppet government.
The Lover
A fifteen-year-old French girl begins a passionate affair with a Chinese man in 1930s Saigon.
Call Me by Your Name
A seventeen-year-old falls for an older scholar during a summer on the Italian Riviera, and the intensity of first love becomes a wound that shapes his entire life.
The Issa Valley
Thomas, a boy growing up with his grandparents in a river valley in the Lithuanian countryside after the First World War, learns about nature, faith and death.