Shirley Stoler

An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.

August, 1963; Alice, 14, an only child, and physically well developed, is home for vacation. She's moody, silent, keeps a diary, and explores tactile sensations with broken eggs, candle wax, ear wax, vomit, urine, blood, and, perhaps, if the summer goes in one very possible direction, semen. Without her underpants, she walks about, rides her bike, and sits on the shore as the tide comes in... (imdb)

Martha Beck is an obese nurse. Through a Lonely Hearts club, she meets and falls in love with Raymond Fernandez... (imdb)

Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In lengthy flashbacks, we see him and his family of seven unattractive sisters (the seven beauties), his accidental murder of one sister's lover, his confession and imprisonment, his calculated switch to an asylum, his rape of a patient, and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement. To the chagrin of his obese German captor, his weak and cowardly character enables him to survive the war and return to Naples where he has a plan to survive the next world catastrophe. (imdb)

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. (imdb)

A New York City waitress decides to become a professional wrestler. (imdb)

An up and coming defense attorney teams up with a veteran cop to put a drug dealing murderer behind bars. The attorney is caught in a conflict of interest when it turns out that the prosecutor is his former girlfriend.

Texas love story about a drunk who works at a carwash and a widowed waitress.

A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.