Houses on the outskirts of Tokyo. Neighbors run from house to house, arguing and spreading rumors, while pushy salespeople stick their noses in, trying to sell something—it’s all just a whirl of activity. The brothers Minoru and Isamu love watching sumo on TV, but they have to sneak over to their

Hortensia, a Black girl from London, loses her adoptive mother and decides to find her biological mother. At the same time, the story follows Cindy Rose, Hortensia’s mother, whom she is searching for, Roxana, Cindy’s daughter and the protagonist’s half-sister, along with her young boyfriend; and

About Robert Crumb, an underground comic artist whose work featured obsessive sexual themes, social criticism, and personal observations on the quirks of the human psyche.

Calvero, an aging clown, saves his neighbor—a young dancer forced to leave her ballet troupe due to illness—from committing suicide. Thus begins this friendship-turned-romance, which, in Calvero’s opinion, cannot last—the age difference is simply too great...

A bittersweet comedy about Charlie's adventures as part of a traveling circus.

To save the small country of Fridonia from bankruptcy, the wealthy widow Mrs. Tisdale agrees to donate $20 million toward that end. But only on the condition that Rufus T. Firefly, who is pursuing her, becomes the country’s leader. Firefly—a cynical and brash dictator—provokes the ambassador from

During the Great Depression, a game leads the wealthy, spoiled, yet charming Irene Bullock—along with her shrewish sister Cornelia—to the city dump, where they meet Godfrey, a homeless man. The encounter ends with Irene hiring him as her butler. While working for her, he discovers that the Bullocks

David Huxley is an eccentric paleontologist who has spent the last four years of his life piecing together a brontosaurus skeleton, bone by bone. The day before his wedding, fate—that mischievous force—brings him face-to-face with Susan, a restless young woman who immediately sets her sights on him

"Matyushek & Co."—a gift and souvenir shop on the corner. One of the employees is Alfred Kralik, a handsome young man who is in love with a girl he has never seen and doesn’t even know the name of (their “romance” began through a mailbox, via correspondence).

Two friends, Smitty and Herbie, make a living selling ties on the street illegally. When they spot a police officer, they decide to hide from him in a movie theater, unaware that it’s now a draft office, and after a series of misunderstandings, they’re stunned to discover that they’re now in the