Ask the Dust

(2006)

Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother's girlfriend.

Jack's thinking of a gap-year traveling with a friend before college, when he meets a cute French girl and her friends in London.

Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.

A documentary filmmaker and her fellow Generation X graduates face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston.

Paul Sutton, a young married soldier, befriends a pregnant lady who is petrified her father will disown her, and agrees to pose as her boyfriend. As time passes, they start growing fond of each other.

A funfair worker unknowingly serves as stable master for his real father, a wealthy colonel. The colonel's beautiful young ward Eva enters their lives, raising romantic possibilities.

A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and in the present.

Tommaso and Antonio are two gay brothers. When Tommaso is about to come out, Antonio says it first. Outraged, their father banishes Antonio from the clan, before being struck down by a heart attack.