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Laurie, an Oklahoma farm gal, is courted by boisterous cowboy, Curley, and by menacing, obsessive farm hand, Jud Frye. Fearing that Jud will do something terrible to Curley, Laurie accepts Jud's invitation to the box social. But Curley rescues Laurie from Jud's unwanted advances and wins her hand. On the eve of their wedding, Laurie and Curley are menaced by Jud. During a fight with Curley, Jud falls on his own knife and is killed. The local deputy...

The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to disinherit him if he marries her. Jane's mother also...

A young American man meets a beautiful French student on a train bound for Paris, falls in love and asks her to share his last night in Vienna.

A jazz pianist and an aspiring actress meet and fall in love despite the differences in their lives.

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

A young woman experiences the highs and lows of being a supervisor at a foster care facility.

On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.

When a man is diagnosed with dementia, he travels across England to the Lake District with his partner, reuniting with friends and family for the final time.

A New York journalist gets hired as a speechwriter for a presidential candidate who, as it turns out, was his babysitter and secret love interest during his teenage years.

In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.